Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange is Marvel’s only treat Warner Brothers had a good morning in Hall H on Saturday, but then it was Marvel’s turn, and Marvel came ready to play. And play they did, basically conducting their panel like a rock concert, and even though they only released one trailer to the wider public, just the By Sarah • Jul 25, 2016 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman stands alone Though they showed off two major superhero teams, the biggest hit of the DC Films portion of Warner Brothers’ presentation was the first trailer for Wonder Woman. It is everything I hoped and dreamed. If this movie turns out bad, if it doesn’t live up to this trailer, I By Sarah • Jul 25, 2016 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ezra Miller will steal Justice League The other big superhero team Warner Brothers/DC showed off at Comic-Con is the Justice League, with the debut of the first trailer for the movie. Unlike Superhero Face Punch, which was teased for three years, this will be a relatively short wait, as Justice League—no longer “Part 1” By Sarah • Jul 25, 2016 08:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Suicide Squad saves the day Comic-Con Saturday brought the two big dogs to Hall H, DC and Marvel. DC was up first, with a jam-packed panel that kicked off with Suicide Squad. They had a HUGE push for this movie at the convention, which only adds to the whispers that Suicide Squad, like Superhero Face By Sarah • Jul 25, 2016 08:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in Café Society Café Society is Woody Allen’s eleven-hundredth movie and it’s the thirty-seventh time he’s made Annie Hall and the second time he’s done Midnight in Paris. It stars Jesse Eisenberg asWoody AllenBobby Dorfman, a New Yorker who goes to Hollywood to find his fortune, and Kristen Stewart By Sarah • Jul 22, 2016 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Viggo Mortensen in Captain Fantastic Captain Fantastic is the third “people in the woods” movie I’ve seen in the last few weeks, following the ambitious and bonkers Swiss Army Man and the superb Hunt for the Wilderpeople I really enjoyed both of those movies, but I did not enjoy Captain Fantastic very much. Written By Sarah • Jul 22, 2016 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Oliver Stone low-key wowed at Comic-Con Yesterday was the first full day of Comic-Con, and one of the “bigger” movie panels was for Oliver Stone’s Snowden. If you read my preview, you know I think the distributor is wasting their time and money on a Hall H presentation. But to be fair, Oliver Stone showed By Sarah • Jul 22, 2016 01:24 pm
Douchebags The Old Boys’ Club is dying In November of 2014, comedian Hannibal Buress told a joke during a set, calling out the decades of rape allegations made against Bill Cosby. At the time, though a lot of people were glad to see the wheels of justice finally turning in favor of the victims, many lamented that By Sarah • Jul 22, 2016 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kirsten Dunst will direct The Bell Jar Kirsten Dunst, fresh off an Emmy nomination for Fargo, was confirmed yesterday to be directing an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, which will star Dakota Fanning as the depressive heroine, Esther Greenwood. Dunst has already directed a couple short films, but this will be her feature film By Sarah • Jul 21, 2016 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dork Storm 2016: The Comic Conning It’s that time of year again, when nerds flock to San Diego for the annual mecca known as Comic-Con. This year will be interesting because in an effort to combat bootlegging, they’re killing WiFi in the convention center. It’ll be interesting to see which studios choose to By Sarah • Jul 20, 2016 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth returning to Star Trek, for some reason Hollywood has been trying to make Chris Hemsworth happen for years, but despite an SMA title and being part of Marvel’s stable of Chrises, he has never caught on quite the way you’d expect. I’ve always said it—twenty years ago The Greater Hemsworth is a slam-dunk By Sarah • Jul 18, 2016 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars Celebration and hope for Rogue One Star Wars Celebration, a sort of mini-Comic Con dedicated solely to all things Star Wars, was held in London over the weekend. (There won’t be a Hall H Star Wars presentation this year, and one wonders how long before Disney starts doing this for Marvel, too.) There wasn’t By Sarah • Jul 18, 2016 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bryan Cranston in The Infiltrator Bryan Cranston excels at playing dangerous liars, and The Infiltrator gives him another chance to play a dangerous liar, doing Walter White: Variation on a Theme. Cranston stars as Robert Mazur, a US Customs agent who goes undercover with Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel in an effort to bust up By Sarah • Jul 15, 2016 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes movie is probably not Citizen Kane Warren Beatty has being trying to get a movie about Howard Hughes made for as long as I’ve cared about movies. I have never known a time when the “Warren Beatty/Howard Hughes movie” wasn’t some mystical idea of the next Citizen Kane. Well, the “Warren Beatty/Howard By Sarah • Jul 14, 2016 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone moodily fall in love The first trailer for La La Land is out, and it manages to look simultaneously twee and melancholy. It’s a musical starring everyone’s favorite fake couple Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, and is from the writer/director of Whiplash, so it’s got a serious pedigree, which is By Sarah • Jul 13, 2016 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Four Funny Women in Ghostbusters Ghostbusters starts with a laugh, as an historical mansion tour guide—Silicon Valley’s Zach Woods, doing more in five minutes than many can do in an entire film—gives his spiel about the supposed haunting of the “Aldridge Mansion”, describing a murderous daughter entombed in her home’s basement By Sarah • Jul 13, 2016 10:44 am
