Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston in High-Rise You expect a movie to be weird, and then you watch it and it’s WEIRD. So it goes with Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s classic sci-fi novel. Steeped in a 1970s aesthetic consistent with the publication of Ballard’s book, High-Rise is stylish By Sarah • May 02, 2016 12:07 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 6.2: “The first storm and the last” Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 2 recap SPOILERS, THESE WILL ALWAYS BE SPOILERS So, it happened. The single most important thing on Game of Thrones happened. Tyrion let the dragons go. But they didn’t leave the pyramid! Get off your lazy asses, dragons! There are enemies to eat By Sarah • May 02, 2016 07:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman’s moment Kathleen saw Captain America: Civil War yesterday and the one comment she had about it is that she’s now psyched for the Black Panther standalone movie. Civil War is already rolling out overseas, and it opens in North America next week, so this is going to be a common By Sarah • Apr 29, 2016 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Barack and Michelle Obama presidential rom-com In the grand tradition of Dave and The American President comes Southside With You, a fictionalization of the first date of Barack and Michelle Obama. It premiered earlier this year at Sundance, where it got good reviews, and the first trailer was released yesterday. It looks cute as hell. It By Sarah • Apr 29, 2016 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Understatement: Sarah didn’t like Mother’s Day I am not a mother. I am not qualified to speak to the joys, trials, and triumphs of motherhood. But I have seen the movie Mother’s Day, so I know all about pain, desperation, despair, and the deep abiding shame that comes from watching silently as another human being By Sarah • Apr 28, 2016 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoe Saldana in Nina About halfway through the Nina Simone biopic, titled simply Nina, you start to feel really bad for everyone involved because there is a lot of earnestness on display. Zoe Saldana, heavily criticized for her involvement, is obviously trying very hard as Simone, and David Oyelowo, starring as Simone’s late-in-life By Sarah • Apr 27, 2016 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meryl Streep’s annual nomination is here Few things in our universe are more inevitable than Meryl Streep receiving Oscar nominations whenever she uses an accent in a film. Death, taxes, Meryl Streep accent Oscars—these are the immutable forces of our universe. And now Streep is back with her latest accent, which is a combination of By Sarah • Apr 27, 2016 11:50 am
TV Updates Sherlock-Batch is Best Batch Immediately after wrapping filming on Doctor Strange in New York, Benedict Cumberbatch returned to London to begin work on series four of Sherlock. Here he is today filming as Sherlock, with the luscious curls and that fantastic coat, and this is how I best like my Batch. He always looks By Sarah • Apr 26, 2016 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elizabeth Banks is a pretty weed Elizabeth Banks is currently filming the Power Rangers movie, because we live in a world where a big-budget Power Rangers movie exists. Here she is on set as the villain, Rita Repulsa. She looks like a pretty, pretty weed, the very prettiest of all the weeds in the flower garden. By Sarah • Apr 26, 2016 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews X-Men: Apocalypse, what have you done to Oscar Isaac? The final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse is here, and I ask this sincerely as someone who has mostly enjoyed the X-Men movies: Is ANYONE pumped for this movie? I keep forgetting it’s even coming out, and when I do remember, it’s only in the context of, “They’re By Sarah • Apr 25, 2016 04:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth is not a Movie Star The Huntsman: Winter’s War opened over the weekend to a resounding, “No thanks,” from audiences with an estimated $20 million opening. For comparison, Snow White and the Huntsman opened in 2012 with $56 million. Given its reported budget of $115 million (haha, yeah RIGHT) and an aggressive ad campaign, By Sarah • Apr 25, 2016 03:18 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones 6.1: “I saw him in the flames” Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 1 recap SPOILERS We’re back! And we’re having a coming out party for the women of Westeros. When we began this series the story was dominated by men and women were too often pawns, manipulating or sexing their way to power with By Sarah • Apr 25, 2016 07:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Costner in Criminal Somehow, incredibly, in the span of less than one year, Ryan Reynolds appears in the same bad movie, twice. Last summer I had to sit through the mind-numbingly bad Self/Less, in which Reynold stars as a body-swapped action hero, and I just sat through the soul-crushing nothing of Criminal, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 01:33 pm
TV Updates Tom Hiddleston is no longer the internet’s boyfriend Tom Hiddleston has been promoting things for the last few months, from I Saw the Light to The Night Manager—which is good—to High Rise, premiering on demand at the end of the month. I commented earlier this year that it seems like, on his current promotional run, we’ By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 12:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Huntsman: Winter’s War is so bad it’s weird I don’t think anyone actually expected The Huntsman: Winter’s War to be good, and it isn’t, so I’m not going to demand anyone spend money on this movie. But if you’re the curious type and/or you remember the charmingly bad sword-and-sorcery movies of yesterday, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ will be in Spider-Man: Homecoming because that’s the whole point Spider-Man 3.0 is set to start filming in a couple months and the film is officially titled Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is overtly a nod to Spider-Man’s high school roots but also seems to be a meta commentary on his joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Zendaya was the first By Sarah • Apr 21, 2016 04:11 pm
