Movie Reviews and Previews Your Friendly Baby Spider-Man Among superhero movies, Spider-Man has produced among the best (Spider-Man 2) and worst (Spider-Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man 2) examples of the genre. So the three-boot of the franchise, Spider-Man: Homecoming, has to at the very least not suck like the Amazing movies, and at best, hopefully match or even top By Sarah • Dec 09, 2016 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sing is a joy jukebox Sometimes it’s impossible to dislike a movie. There are just some movies that, no matter how many problems they may have, are so winsome and entertaining that you—happily—overlook flaws because of the feelings. Sing is one such movie. Following up on the success of The Secret Life By Sarah • Dec 08, 2016 01:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa 2 This week I am attempting to watch all of the holiday-centric new releases and so far, while I haven’t hit the low of Love The Coopers, I also haven’t seen a seasonal gem like The Night Before. Christmas movies are hard to get right, which is why there By Sarah • Dec 07, 2016 06:02 pm
TV Updates Ryan Murphy puts his money where his mouth is Ryan Murphy has built a television empire, creating some of the most popular and most-watched television of the Peak Age, and now that he’s got some clout, he’s using it to put his money where his mouth is and deliver on a promise to hire more women behind By Sarah • Dec 06, 2016 04:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Wahlberger Robot Nonsense I am trying desperately to remember anything about the last Transformers movie, but it’s giving me a headache, because the only thing I clearly remember about that movie was that it gave me a headache. Mark Wahlberg was in it, replacing Shia LaBeouf as the franchise lead, I remember By Sarah • Dec 06, 2016 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Schumer is Imperfect Barbie Friday it was announced that Amy Schumer will star in a live-action Barbie movie, slated for 2018. A Barbie movie has been kicking around for a while, and the current treatment comes from Hilary Winston, a veteran of TV shows like My Name is Earl and Community, and who is By Sarah • Dec 05, 2016 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise Runs From The Mummy Do you remember when The Mummy was an Indiana Jones-ish action-adventure about a smart librarian outwitting a mummy? You know, back when Brendon Fraser looked like this and didn’t have weird freaky hands? Remember Rachel Weisz and how cute and spunky she was, and how she was a total By Sarah • Dec 05, 2016 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews We are all Baby Groot The first full trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 dropped over the weekend—thanks to a Comic Con event in Brazil—and jumping off that brag video from a couple months ago, it’s FANTASTIC. They’re still not giving us anything about the plot and we still By Sarah • Dec 05, 2016 08:53 am
Girlcrushes Kristen Stewart joyrides for the Stones The Rolling Stones released a music video for a song—a cover of an old Eddie Taylor song—off their new album, Blue and Lonesome, and it stars Kristen Stewart, joyriding in a ’65 ’Stang and rocking out and generally looking very, very hot. The tomboy aesthetic really works for By Sarah • Dec 02, 2016 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Edge of Seventeen is a teen classic Today The Edge of Seventeen won the Best First Film Award from the New York Film Critics Circle. A great teen movie is timeless. The slang may change, fashions come and go, but the great teen movies never expire. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Clueless, Rebel Without By Sarah • Dec 01, 2016 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt’s potential We’ve been talking about Passengers as a Movie Star test since the first trailer. It’s now December and the movie opens in three weeks, so the test has officially begun. To that end, new interviews are rolling out, including Chris Pratt on the cover of British GQ. They’ By Sarah • Dec 01, 2016 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chronicle, but for magic What does it take to make magic cool? (David Blaine has been asking this question for years.) Is it daring, Houdini-esque escapes, or sleight of hand card tricks, or elaborate illusions? Or would it be cool if every trick—sorry, illusion—ended with Criss Angel burning down a Hot Topic? By Sarah • Dec 01, 2016 11:04 am
TV Updates Lin-Manuel Miranda is a hardcore fantasy nerd We’re going deep into the Dork Forest for this one. Lin-Manuel Miranda, human sunbeam and creator of Hamilton, is going to produce an adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle, a fantasy novel series by Patrick Rothfuss. Sounds kind of badass, right? “Kingkiller” kind of sounds like “Kingslayer”, so maybe this By Sarah • Nov 30, 2016 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck is fine Critical status update report—Casey Affleck, actor and Oscar hopeful, continues to be absolutely, totally, 100% okay despite serious allegations of sexual harassment. The latest pit stop on the Casey Affleck Is Doing Just Fine Tour is the National Board of Review, where he won Best Actor for his performance By Sarah • Nov 30, 2016 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman’s alien answers Last night Natalie Portman showed up at the Gotham Awards, wearing a homeschooler’s home ec project, where she was a Best Actress nominee for Jackie. In something of an upset, she lost to Isabelle Huppert (Elle), because film voters have a hard time resisting Icons. The Gothams are not By Sarah • Nov 29, 2016 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews “When the time is right” or …not right now? Last December, Star Wars began a new era of storytelling with The Force Awakens and this year it expands that story with a new cohort of rebels and heroes in Rogue One. What these movies have in common, besides the galaxy far far away, are two things: 1) Inclusive casts, By Sarah • Nov 29, 2016 09:31 am
