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
Movie Reviews and Previews Warren Beatty in Rules Don’t Apply It’s been fifteen years since Warren Beatty has appeared in a movie, and nearly twenty since he last directed a film, but Beatty returns to film—in front of and behind the camera—with Rules Don’t Apply, his long-gestating Howard Hughes movie. On the one hand, it’s By Sarah • Nov 24, 2016 12:49 pm
Anna Faris Chris Pratt’s weakness So far Chris Pratt, as a celebrity, has been bulletproof. The most controversial thing about him is that he hunts, but while some of us won’t be down with that, plenty of people are fine with hunting. In fact, in many demographics, that’s only going to make Pratt By Sarah • Nov 23, 2016 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Moana is just delightful I saw Moana Monday night and have not stopped listening to the songs since. All the songs are credited to Mark Mancina, who also composed the score; Opetaia Foa’i, of the Oceanic band Te Vaka; and Broadway star and alleged heartthrob Lin-Manuel Miranda, and as much as I hate By Sarah • Nov 23, 2016 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Ang Lee’s $40 million camera test, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, ate it hardcore at the box office this past weekend, which is maybe unfair because the movie isn’t THAT bad. Based on a novel by Ben Fountain—adapted by Jean-Christophe Castelli—Billy Lynn is a time-jumping By Sarah • Nov 22, 2016 04:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Justin Timberlake is a terrible voice actor Here’s Justin Timberlake promoting Trolls in Australia this weekend. Here’s my review of Trolls. Reviving the soul-sucking demon-toys, Trolls is set inside an acid flashback at a rave you went to in 1997. It’s bright, it’s BRIGHT, it’s so bright your retinas will sting and By Sarah • Nov 21, 2016 01:30 pm
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: let the beasts be free Lainey can’t believe I’m Gryffindor. We had a whole conversation about it—she thinks I should be Ravenclaw-but if you need proof, Lainey is a loud and proud Slytherin, and Gryffindors live to cockblock Slytherins, which will explain my review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2016 11:31 am
