Amazingness Enter The Room I’ll never forget the first time I saw The Room, arguably the worst movie ever made. (It’s up against Manos: The Hands of Fate, a spectacularly bad movie.) I was in college and a friend was talking about this terrible movie playing at a theater in Fairfax, going By Sarah • Jul 18, 2017 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blade Runner at war A new trailer for Blade Runner 2049 has just been released, and in case you’re wondering, yes this movie continues to look f*cking awesome. (Blade Runner is at Comic-Con on Saturday, so we might be getting even more to look at soon.) This trailer shows more of Jared By Sarah • Jul 17, 2017 12:48 pm
Robert Downey-Jr Marvel’s camp reunion Also at Disney’s D23 over the weekend was a sizeable chunk of the cast of Avengers: Infinity War, including Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sebastian Stan (those three, by the way, got the biggest ovations from the crowd), Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Don Cheadle, Chadwick Boseman, By Sarah • Jul 17, 2017 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars Family This past weekend was Disney biennial fan convention, D23, and among the many things they showed off—they see Universal’s Harry Potter Land and will raise you Avatar Land, Star Wars Land, and Marvel Land—was Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars is not expected to be among By Sarah • Jul 17, 2017 09:58 am
Dumbass Goop doesn’t actually want to talk Earlier Maria covered the goop open letter that challenged Dr Jen Gunter and whether or not it was good business strategy. I name-checked Dr. Gunter in my write-up of the In Goop Health event held last month, as she has been one of the most vociferous and articulate critics of By Sarah • Jul 14, 2017 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews I wish I never saw Wish Upon The first thing you need to know about Wish Upon, is that there is a Very Good Dog called Max and SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS. The second thing you need to know is that Wish Upon isn’t remotely good enough to justify it. The third thing you need to know By Sarah • Jul 13, 2017 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gimme Black Panther NOW Continuing the pre-Comic-Con warm-up is Black Panther, which covers Entertainment Weekly’s special issue. We’ve seen the trailer, and now we have a trove of photos to scan in detail, including T’Challa’s family—his mother, Ramonda, is played by ANGELA BASSET. There’s also Lupita N’yongo By Sarah • Jul 12, 2017 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time We’re about to get hit with a deluge of new movie stuff, with Disney’s biennial fan convention, D23, taking place this weekend, and then Comic-Con the weekend after. As a warm up, Entertainment Weekly has some first-look features in their Comic-Con issue, including Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle By Sarah • Jul 12, 2017 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney’s Aladdin Dilemma Disney’s live-action conversion machine rolls on, with the next project up for conversion being Aladdin. The beloved musical is being directed by Guy Ritchie, which sounds like a nightmare. And it’s already proving challenging as a massive worldwide casting search for Aladdin has yielded no results, and production By Sarah • Jul 11, 2017 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hiddles-Dream is dead (probably) There was a tremendous amount of speculation last year about Tom Hiddleston and James Bond. It was fueled by Hiddleston’s performance in The Night Manager as well as Hiddles’ general thirstiness for the role, and then we spent months arguing over whether or not his relationship with Taylor Swift By Sarah • Jul 10, 2017 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves in The Bad Batch There are movies that are not good, there are movies that are bad, and then are movies that are gross. Bad movies are common, but gross movies are few and far between. The last gross movie I saw was the Salma Hayek torture porn debacle Everly, two and a half By Sarah • Jul 07, 2017 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal in Okja First and most important the “animal endangerment” warning: Okja can be hard to watch. While it’s not as bloody as it could be, it’s frank about the slaughterhouse and the treatment of animals raised to slaughter in agri-business abattoirs. It’s not exploitative, but there are a couple By Sarah • Jul 07, 2017 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Goop at the movies Here is Gwyneth Paltrow yesterday in the Hamptons, hosting a screening of Despicable Me 3 to kick off a run of movie-related sh*t at goop MRKT (sidebar: the way goop punctuates drives me nuts). What does goop sell for the movies? Gluten-free candy, definitely. Minion-themed children’s yoga mats? By Sarah • Jul 06, 2017 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler in The House Yet another R-rated comedy bit the dust as The House bombed over the July 4th weekend. Following on the heels of Rough Night’s similar disappointment, there’s a lot of hand-wringing over what is wrong with Hollywood, why is this summer bad, do people hate franchises now, is it By Sarah • Jul 06, 2017 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Beguiled Is What It Is And what it is, is a dreamily rendered impressionist drawing room drama, a psycho-sexual thriller buttoned up in a prim and proper façade. Sofia Coppola’s latest meditation on privileged femininity is an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel of the same title, and it’s a beautiful idea of By Sarah • Jul 05, 2017 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Rock tries again Baywatch sh*t the bed last month, but before that, F8 of the Furious was a monster hit. So it’s been a rollercoaster year for Dwayne Johnson, and it’s not over yet. The first trailer for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was released yesterday, priming the pump for By Sarah • Jun 30, 2017 11:35 am
