Movie Reviews and Previews Go in knowing nothing about 10 Cloverfield Lane I hate the mystery box. I am not a fan of the JJ Abrams School of SECRETY SECRETS. It only worked once, with Cloverfield, because that movie came out of left field and had nothing to do with anything, so there were no preconceived notions or expectations about what it By Sarah • Mar 14, 2016 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Batman’s Robin’s boy shorts Ben Affleck recently gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly for their Superhero Face Punch issue in which he talks about his older, even more cynical Batman, and the open-ended promise of a Batfleck-directed Batman movie, but the thing nerds are fixating on is that Affleck confirms that at the time By Sarah • Mar 14, 2016 12:22 pm
Sally Field in Hello My Name is Doris There’s a point in the film Hello My Name is Doris in which you fear something terrible is about to happen Doris. As played by Sally Field, Doris is charming and slightly daffy, wearing bright clothes that almost but not quite match. She’s shy and kind and a By Sarah • Mar 11, 2016 03:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain America can do this all day The second—and some say final—trailer for Captain America: Civil War was just released and it’s a continuation of what has been, so far, a stellar ad campaign. Last year, Disney kinda blew it with Avengers: Age of Ultron, not really doing a great job communicating the tone By Sarah • Mar 10, 2016 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tina Fey in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Tina Fey’s latest movie, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, is a frustrating viewing experience. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Focus, Crazy Stupid Love), the film has the same tone problems that have plagued the duo since their debut film, I Love You Phillip Morris, which is magic they have By Sarah • Mar 10, 2016 12:19 pm
TV Updates Louis CK’s Horace and Pete has become one of the best shows on TV Louis CK’s no-fuss no-fanfare TV(??) show(???), Horace and Pete, has continued putting out one episode a week since the surprise pilot debut on CK’s website. There are now six episodes of varying length, with episode five marking the “end of act one”. Over these six episodes, Horace and By Sarah • Mar 10, 2016 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Witch Imagine if The Crucible and The Shining had a baby and rolled it around in Twin Peaks dust, and you’d have The Witch, the feature film debut of writer/director Robert Eggers. Set in seventeenth century New England, The Witch draws much of its dialogue from actual historical documents By Sarah • Mar 09, 2016 04:01 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones Liar Bingo: Trailer Edition The full trailer for Game of Thrones season six came out yesterday—let’s see how many squares on Game of Thrones Liar Bingo we can check. Shots of Jon Snow’s dead body with voice over narration making it sound like someone is talking about Jon Snow being dead? By Sarah • Mar 09, 2016 12:06 pm
Harry Potter JK Rowling is opening the Wizarding World to everyone The first excerpt from JK Rowling’s History of Magic in North America was posted yesterday, and it focused on Native American wizards. As a half-Oglala Lakota kid who grew up searching for any signs of my culture that wasn’t a mascot, I almost cried reading it. The world By Sarah • Mar 09, 2016 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zootopia is a 21st century Disney classic I know I’ll catch hell from the Frozen fans for this, but Zootopia is the best move from Disney Animation since The Lion King (it also just set a box office record). First of all, animals wearing people clothes is always the best, and every movie could be improved By Sarah • Mar 08, 2016 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elijah Wood and Nicolas Cage in THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER Elijah Wood used his Lord of the Rings juice to push through passion projects like the criminally underseen TV show Wilfred, and genre movies like the Maniac remake and Cooties. But apparently he’s grown tired of being a purveyor of fine niche entertainment and has entered the ironic portion By Sarah • Mar 08, 2016 12:54 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones Liar Bingo If you have “Kit Harington tells bald-faced lies to the press” on your Game of Thrones Liar Bingo card, mark that sh*t off because Kit Harington told a bald-faced lie to the press. Speaking to Time Out London about the fate of Jon Snow, Harington said, “Look, I’m By Sarah • Mar 08, 2016 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya is the first of Spider-Man 3.0’s new friends I have never seen anything Zendaya has been in—she’s a Disney kid?—but I have seen her on red carpets and in interviews, and she strikes me as an above-average articulate young woman who does not suffer fools. Every time I have been made aware of her, I By Sarah • Mar 07, 2016 03:04 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead 6.10-12: The Next World The Walking Dead Season 6, Episodes 10-12 recap SPOILERS Coming back from the mid-season premiere, The Walking Dead made a very good decision—we jump ahead a few weeks in the timeline. The single-day format of the first half of the season was a grind, and though this set of By Sarah • Mar 07, 2016 09:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in London Has Fallen London Has Fallen is a movie in which the leaders of several sovereign nations are explicitly and violently assassinated on camera. Then half the city of London is blown up—particularly, all the “known landmarks”, as opposed to all those unknown ones—and then we spend two hours watching as By Sarah • Mar 04, 2016 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who you gonna call? NuGhostbusters! After what feels like a long wait—but really, they’re right on schedule, it’s just that we’re paying SO MUCH attention to this movie—the first trailer for the all-lady Ghostbusters is here, and it’s pretty great. Just watched the trailer for Bridesmaidsbusters. For the sake By Sarah • Mar 03, 2016 12:05 pm
