TV Updates Review: The Sherlock Victorian special MAYBE SPOILERS DEPENDING ON SENSITIVITY On New Year’s Day the BBC and PBS finally got their sh*t together and aired Sherlock at the same time, instead of making the US wait weeks for it, which is dumb and pointless in this day and age. It’s the one-off, By Sarah • Jan 04, 2016 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2015 Anomalisa This is Charlie Kaufman’s sophomore directorial effort, seven years in the making and with an assist by Duke Johnson, who directed Community’s animated episodes. Anomalisa is a flat-out astounding film, where stop-motion puppets peel their faces off but also enact realistic and intimate love scenes, and it By Sarah • Dec 31, 2015 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Fassbender is really going for it in Assassin’s Creed Just under a year from now, Michael Fassbender will attempt to break the video game curse with an adaptation of the video game Assassin’s Creed. The film wrapped principal photography just before Christmas, so we’re starting to see images from the movie, giving us some idea of what By Sarah • Dec 30, 2015 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Marky Mark is the MOST MAN in Daddy’s Home I suppose it’s only fair, since Point Break turned out to be entertaining almost in spite of itself, that the other wide-release non-Star Wars option at the cineplex this holiday season, Daddy’s Home, is exactly as bad as you think it is. At least, it’s as bad By Sarah • Dec 30, 2015 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Doctor will see you now In the wake of New New Star Wars annihilating the box office, Marvel wants to remind us that whatever money the Force didn’t claim goes straight into Tony Stark’s piggy bank, so they get the last cover the year from Entertainment Weekly to introduce Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor By Sarah • Dec 29, 2015 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Point Break 2.0: enjoyable as a stupid movie And yeah, OG Point Break is a ridiculous f*cking movie, too. As far as comparing the two goes, it’s not a matter of the original being better because the original Point Break is silly as f*ck, and this movie is silly as f*ck, so in that By Sarah • Dec 29, 2015 09:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in (a Christmas) Carol (Lainey: the “Christmas” in the title is my corny addition and not Sarah’s. Am working on a theme today.) Todd Haynes made one of my all-time favorite films, Velvet Goldmine, which is about a young man’s sexual awakening at the hands of a more experienced man during the By Sarah • Dec 24, 2015 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith in Concussion What a wasted opportunity. Concussion could have been such a kick in the nuts to the NFL. It’s produced by Sony, like the one studio in no way connected to the NFL either through advertising or broadcasting contracts, and Sony took enough of a “come at me, bro” attitude By Sarah • Dec 23, 2015 12:21 pm
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds is working hard for Deadpool It feels like Ryan Reynolds has been shilling for Deadpool for the last nine years, even though the first time I wrote about it was a little over a year ago. It could be because the project had a long gestation period, but I think it’s more that it By Sarah • Dec 23, 2015 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight Usually we title these reviews with the name of a star in the film, but when it comes to Quentin Tarantino, he is the star of his films. Tarantino is a real auteur, the kind of filmmaker whose authorial stamp is so strong it overrides everything else about his films. By Sarah • Dec 22, 2015 01:26 pm
Star Wars Preserve Poe Dameron for his magnificent hair Some Spoilers If You Still Haven’t Seen Star Wars For Some Reason Many of you have Freebie Fived Oscar Isaac. (Lainey: Step OFF. I saw him first!) While I have not, he has become one of the most interesting actors to watch—did you see Show Me a Hero? By Sarah • Dec 22, 2015 09:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tina Fey & Amy Poehler in Sisters No one expected much from Sisters, as it opened against Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but it managed to not entirely face-plant by taking in $13.4 million over the weekend. Even though it opened #3 behind Star Wars and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip, making it into double By Sarah • Dec 21, 2015 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews New Star Wars, New Heroes, Old Journey SPOILER FREE There’s a moment in Star Wars: The Force Awakens that is so triumphant you will fist pump and want to cheer. There’s a moment where you will gasp, and one where you will get a lump in your throat, and one where you’ll grip your By Sarah • Dec 21, 2015 11:11 am
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence talks “like a man” and the wage gap Jennifer Lawrence is doing promotion for JOY, and she’s being asked about her essay for Lenny in which she discussed the wage inequality in Hollywood, and how her own desire to not seem “difficult” kept her from being more assertive in negotiations. Here she is on Charlie Rose discussing By Sarah • Dec 18, 2015 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tina Fey tries war comedy Making good comedy is hard, making good war comedy is…ill advised, most of the time. Louis CK mined his own experience with the USO for a stellar three-episode arc on his TV show, Louie, and Three Kings holds up—though it’s not, strictly speaking, a comedy—but I By Sarah • Dec 17, 2015 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman cosplays as Jackie O The first photo of Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy in the film Jackie was released yesterday, and it shows Portman in a red suit and pearls with First Lady hair. She doesn’t look exactly like Jacqueline Kennedy—these are the days before Onassis—but it’s a solid approximation, By Sarah • Dec 17, 2015 12:41 pm
