Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah’s Top 10 of 2016 Captain America: Civil War Paying off years of story and character work, and servicing a cast numbering in the double-digits, somehow Civil War doesn’t collapse under its own weight. It delivers on both the action front, with the best superhero battle ever filmed, and the character front, executing the By Sarah • Dec 16, 2016 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harry Styles’s acting debut Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s inevitable World War II movie – it’s practically a rite of passage for male filmmakers of a certain age to make a WWII movie—released its first trailer yesterday, marking the official acting debut of Harry Styles. There’s more Harry Styles than Tom Hardy in By Sarah • Dec 15, 2016 01:10 pm
Equality Issues Men Discussing Women The Hollywood Reporter released their animation roundtable yesterday, which sounds thrilling, I know. The panel includes directors Byron Howard (Zootopia), Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings), Garth Jennings (Sing), John Musker (Moana), Mark Osborne (The Little Prince), Mike Mitchell (Trolls), and Seth Rogen, because they have to get you By Sarah • Dec 15, 2016 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan makes the leap Over the last couple years Sebastian Stan has enjoyed a visible career bounce thanks to Marvel, picking up roles in big-deal movies, like The Martian, and Steven Soderbergh’s return to feature film, Logan Lucky, as well as higher profile indies like We Have Always Lived in the Castle. And By Sarah • Dec 14, 2016 10:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston and James Franco in Why Him? Why Him? is more than just a Christmas comedy, and more than a fish-out-of-water, meet-the-family tale. It’s a deep philosophical exploration of the inescapable loneliness that haunts us all, which is inevitably exacerbated by the tide of false cheer and forced goodwill that is the holiday season. Why Him? By Sarah • Dec 13, 2016 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston in Office Christmas Party On the heels of Bad Santa 2 comes Office Christmas Party, another sub-par Christmas “comedy” in which actors play characters that are more like guesses about what real people are like than representations of actual human people. But besides being a Christmas movie this is also an office comedy that By Sarah • Dec 13, 2016 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The F8 of the Furious The eighth Fast/Furious movie has an official title and it is The Fate of the Furious and somehow, miraculously not F8 of the Furious. To whoever chooses the names for these movies—YOU HAD ONE JOB. How do you not name it F8 of the Furious?! It’s RIGHT By Sarah • Dec 12, 2016 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in Allied Marion Cotillard went into promotion on Assassin’s Creed right after Allied. Allied has not performed well at the box office. There’s nothing particularly wrong with Allied. From a craft standpoint, it’s well made. Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard don’t deliver the performances of their lives, but By Sarah • Dec 09, 2016 02:03 pm
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
