Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman don’t fail us now I’m trying so hard to keep my expectations tempered because the DC movies are really good at trailers and really bad at everything else, but goddamn these Wonder Woman trailers are SO good. The latest is the “Origins” trailer, introducing us to Diana’s childhood and training on Themyscira. By Sarah • Mar 13, 2017 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anna Kendrick in Table 19 The first thing you need to know is that despite the way its trailer makes it look, Table 19 is not a romantic comedy. The second thing you need to know is that it has an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I AM HERE TO DEFEND IT. Table 19 By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa Leo is a hated woman I think Netflix has a slight problem. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and debuted just a few weeks later on Netflix with no fanfare. Yesterday they released the trailer for The Most Hated Woman in America starring Melissa By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bargain Bin Little Mermaid There are several live-action Little Mermaid projects in the works, including one that has Lin-Manuel Miranda attached, but the first to theaters is The Little Mermaid brought to you by your worst nightmares because oh my god this movie looks ATROCIOUS. The totally bitching Atomic Blonde trailer dropped By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper Kristen Stewart won a Cesar Award for Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, and she now reteams with writer/director Assayas for a new movie called Personal Shopper. It’s a slightly trashy weird artsy Euro horror movie, and while it won’t be for everyone, it did scare By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 11:17 am
Game of Thrones Winter is in the summer Yesterday HBO did this thing where they melted a block of ice on Facebook Live to reveal the premiere date for season seven of Game of Thrones: July 16. Then they released the first teaser which has no footage. It’s mostly old dialogue and sigil graphics— I love the By Sarah • Mar 10, 2017 10:08 am
TV Updates Tom Hiddleston may have a knock-off Bond franchise According to very vague statements, The Night Manager, Tom Hiddleston’s humanitarian effort to cheer up aid workers in Africa, is maybe possibly being explored to potentially develop a second season. The companies behind the transporting experience that Tom Hiddleston graciously provided, AMC, BBC, and The Ink Factory, released a By Sarah • Mar 09, 2017 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews New Wave Thor Entertainment Weekly has the first look at Thor: Ragnarok on its cover this week, and it is an Eighties-fantastic explosion of COLOR and LIGHT and HAIR. Thor’s got an entirely new look, including a new haircut—which I am way into—and a suspiciously missing hammer. I have By Sarah • Mar 09, 2017 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Geostorm looks gloriously dumb Sometimes a trailer comes along and lights up your life with how gloriously f*cking dumb the movie looks, and today that trailer is Geostorm, a movie in which Gerard Butler saves us from the weather. In the grand tradition of Twister, Volcano, Dante’s Peak, 2012, The Day After By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 04:16 pm
TV Updates Late Night Boy Sh*t As we are so fond of saying around here, boy sh*t is the best sh*t and today we’ve been given a helping of late night talk show host boy sh*t. If you haven’t heard, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been steadily gaining ground By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 11:58 am
Equality Issues Duana nominates: Sarah on Blake Lively Sarah wrote about “Cherokee Princess” Blake Lively back in January and today, on International Women’s Day, as we show our work and celebrate the work of our colleagues, Duana remembers this post for the way Sarah shared her own experience as an indigenous woman getting to know her own By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoey Deutch in Before I Fall Before I Fall is a Very Special Episode stretched to ninety minutes in which an insipid teen learns not to be a total asshole by reliving the same day over and over. If you’re saying, “Hey, that sounds like Groundhog Day,” then you are correct because this is basically By Sarah • Mar 07, 2017 10:01 am
TV Updates Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon in Feud: Bette and Joan Unleashing his lingering ire toward Bette Davis, who was a crucial player in the fall of the Old Hollywood studio system, studio boss Jack Warner (Stanley Tucci) bellows, “That C*NT!” And later, ushering Bette Davis and Joan Crawford into her lavish Hollywood estate, Hedda Hopper (Judy Davis) grandly proclaims, By Sarah • Mar 06, 2017 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman in Logan Logan hauled in an estimated $85 million over the weekend, which is a great debut for Hugh Jackman’s last ride as Wolverine. The movie itself, though, is a somewhat less-than-great send-off for the first superhero superstar. In it we find Logan—no longer going by “Wolverine” By Sarah • Mar 06, 2017 08:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Moonlight + La La Land Forever Thanks to the craziest Oscars ending in history, Moonlight and La La Land, two separate films, became Moonlight + La La Land, one cultural monolith. There are historic wins on both sides. Damien Chazelle, at 32, is the youngest Best Director winner ever. And Moonlight is the first LGBTQ film to By Sarah • Mar 02, 2017 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Star-Lord’s dad A new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was released last night—Chris Pratt popped out of the audience at Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote it—and while it is mostly new material, it’s kind of amazing how much of this movie they’re NOT giving away. By Sarah • Mar 01, 2017 04:33 pm
