Movie Reviews and Previews A Very Murray Christmas, indeed On December 4, Bill Murray will attempt to revive the tradition of the celebrity Christmas special with his Netflix special, A Very Murray Christmas. The first trailer has just been released, and it is delightful. Directed by Sofia Coppola, the special stars Murray and a slew of celebrity guests, including By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ridley Scott can’t let Michael Fassbender go Prometheus was the kinda sorta dancing around the face-hugger in the room prequel to Alien, but with the sequel to Prometheus, Ridley Scott is dropping all pretense of this not being a shared universe and is retitling Prometheus 2 as Alien: Covenant. (For a second it was called Alien: Paradise By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 01:33 pm
Fargo Fargo 2.6: “I’m living in a museum of the past” Fargo Season 2 Episode 6 Recap Every week I think Fargo can’t get any better, AND THEN IT DOES. I almost love this show as much as I love Justified, and I love Justified more than some members of my family. One thing we haven’t talked about yet By Sarah • Nov 17, 2015 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Check out Emily Blunt as Evil Elsa The sequel-prequel-whatever no one asked for, The Huntsman, has an official title, an official release date, and official character posters, including Emily Blunt as the Ice Queen. This thing is now called The Huntsman: Winter’s War, it will open on April 22, 2016, and you can check out the By Sarah • Nov 16, 2015 03:13 pm
Diane Keaton Love The Coopers The trailers for the never-to-be-classic Christmas movie Love The Coopers make it out to be a banal but well-meaning piece of holiday fluff, filling the obligatory “ensemble dramedy” slot on the holiday movie bingo card created by the success of Love Actually. It’s a multi-narrative ensemble piece featuring a By Sarah • Nov 16, 2015 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aziz Ansari is the Master of None Serious question: What’s your preferred way of talking about Netflix TV shows? I generally don’t cater to spoiler babies—you have a weekend to see a new movie and one day to watch a new TV episode—but what about Netflix shows, where you have all ten episodes By Sarah • Nov 16, 2015 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sarah Silverman in I Smile Back Every few months it seems like you guys hit a threshold and need to tell me, all at once, that negative movie reviews bum you out. But if you think you’re bummed out, try it from my side. By the end of the year, I will have reviewed upwards By Sarah • Nov 13, 2015 01:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dumber Finding Nemo After a two-year hiatus, Pixar came back this year with the outstanding Inside Out, and they’ve also got the upcoming The Good Dinosaur, which also looks very good. Then, next year, it’s a return to Sequel Town with Finding Dory, the Finding Nemo follow-up fans were clamoring for. By Sarah • Nov 12, 2015 01:49 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch Alien Lizard King honored by unsuspecting human queen Benedict Cumberbatch, king of the reptiloids of Garlactaca-9, was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, a human monarch wholly unsuspecting of her world’s pending colonization. The CBE is awarded to “those making distinguished or notable contributions in their By Sarah • Nov 11, 2015 03:34 pm
Shia LaBeouf Shia LaBeouf: Performance Artist strikes again Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf strikes again! The last time we heard from The Beef he was spitting mad rhymes and aggressively bullsh*t excuses at his girlfriend. But now The Beef has returned, once again perpetrating performance art in a public space. Gothamist announced yesterday that The Beef is at By Sarah • Nov 11, 2015 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Peanuts Movie It’s been a solid year for kids’ movies, from the adorable Paddington, to the super cute Shaun the Sheep, to the headier, more ambitious surrealist stylings of Inside Out. The latest movie for the tot-set is a 3D animated adaptation of Charles Schulz’s ever-popular Peanuts comics, aptly titled By Sarah • Nov 10, 2015 02:39 pm
Star Wars Meet Your New Fave: John Boyega Lainey set me up yesterday to talk about the New New Star Wars TV spot with Lupita Nyong’o’s voice making leading statements about “eyes”. You can see the spot here. I have some theories about what’s going on in The Force Awakens, especially about Daisy Ridley’s By Sarah • Nov 10, 2015 11:37 am
Fargo Fargo 2.5: “Whatever comes” Fargo Season 2 Episode 5 recap Noreen The Morose Butcher Shop Girl is my new favorite character—her favorite holiday is Halloween and she’s latched onto Camus and his “we all die eventually” philosophy. Previously, Noreen has only been seen at the butcher shop with Ed Blomquist, parroting “okay By Sarah • Nov 10, 2015 09:18 am
Samuel L Jackson The Hateful Eight continues to look amazing Quentin Tarantino has recently found himself at the center of controversy—again—after he went to a protest against police brutality and made some comments that angered police officers and has resulted in an ever-spreading boycott by police unions and organizations across the country. He’s also got the head By Sarah • Nov 09, 2015 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chiwetel Ejiofor brings the handsome to Doctor Strange Here is Chiwetel Ejiofor on the set of Doctor Strange, continuing to film in Nepal. Benedict Cumberbatch is a polarizing figure on the handsome/not handsome list, but can we all agree that Ejiofor is a Very Handsome Man? Because he is. He looks especially good in these shots because By Sarah • Nov 09, 2015 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Carey Mulligan in Suffragette For a movie about the breaking point of the British Suffragette movement that saw marches and demonstrations turn to vandalism and arson, Suffragette is hella boring. A story that ought to provoke anger and inspire people to action instead provokes yawns and inspires people to check their watch. A historical By Sarah • Nov 09, 2015 01:05 pm
