Movie Reviews and Previews A bunch of ghouls in The Dead Don’t Die Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature, The Dead Don’t Die, is a curious movie that exists in two realities at once: one in which it is good, and one in which it is bad. It’s like Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe in that it is By Sarah • Jun 14, 2019 01:34 pm
Theatre Nerd The TONYs Are Better TV Than The Oscars. I Said It. Confession: I missed the beginning of the show live, including host James Corden’s over 10-minute opening number, and saw it after I’d watched the rest of the show. I didn’t think that would shift the fabric of my whole viewing experience, but I saw more than a By Duana • Jun 10, 2019 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Biennial Vanity Fair Star Wars Ad In what is now a biennial tradition, Vanity Fair has a bunch of beautiful new Star Wars portraits and photos from Annie Leibovitz covering their new issue—let’s be honest, this is a very fancy, very splashy ad. This year there are two covers: Rey and Kylo Ren. They By Sarah • May 23, 2019 09:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver saying “Ghouls” Up until this very moment, pop culture has had only one ghoul expert, and that is Charlie Kelly, who knows a ghoul on sight. Now, however, Charlie Kelly is joined by Adam Driver in Jim Jarmusch’s new zombie movie, as he correctly identifies ghouls and, incidentally, creates a new By Sarah • Apr 01, 2019 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Time for Spike? Spike Lee received the Career Achievement Award in Palm Springs last night, presented to him by “the Stallworth Brothers”, John David Washington and Adam Driver. We’ll be seeing a lot of these three in the next couple of weeks. But…will we see them at the Oscars? BlackkKlansman is By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman This has been a hell of a year for black American cinema, from the cultural phenomenon of Black Panther, to Blindspotting’s spoken-word musing on race and class, to Boots Riley’s masterpiece Sorry to Bother You, and we still haven’t gotten to new films from Steve McQueen and By Sarah • Aug 17, 2018 03:39 pm
Cannes 2018 Adam Driver: let’s fight I just wrote about the potential importance of BlacKkKlansman. Adam Driver is in Cannes in support of Spike Lee’s film. I want to establish that I know the serious subject matter of BlacKkKlansman and that I respect it before I go low classy and turn this into a conversation By Kathleen • May 16, 2018 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman at Cannes Spike Lee was back at Cannes for the first time since 1991 for Jungle Fever. For his return, Spike premiered his latest joint BlacKkKlansman. The film was received with a 10-minute standing ovation. Critics are calling it Spike’s best film in years. There is even talk that BlacKkKlansman will By Kathleen • May 16, 2018 11:14 am
Quiveration For Your Internet Boyfriend Consideration: Adam Driver Proving that it actually exists, a trailer for Terry Gilliam’s eons-in-the-making The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was released the other day. It’s real! He did it this time! I remember seeing a documentary about Gilliam’s previous—failed—attempt at making this movie (with Johnny Depp) AT By Sarah • Apr 10, 2018 04:54 pm
Quiveration Scarlett & Adam Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver were photographed in New York on Friday working on Noah Baumbach’s new film. A Noah Baumbach film is a good reset for Scarlett. I’d like to see her in a smaller, quieter film. But my first thought when I saw these pictures was By Lainey • Mar 20, 2018 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the Star Wars for a generation After an original trilogy, a prequel trilogy, a spin-off, and the first installment in a sequel trilogy, it didn’t seem that Star Wars could still surprise. They could create new creatures and amaze with effects, be they practical or elaborate CGI, and they could give us new versions of By Sarah • Dec 12, 2017 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Logan Lucky is Ocean’s 7-11 That’s an actual joke in the movie, that the heist at the center of the film is “Ocean’s 7-11”. And it’s appropriate, because Logan Lucky, a perfectly delightful heist flick from one of the best crafters of heist flicks, is a beat-for-beat remake of 2001’s Ocean’ By Sarah • Aug 21, 2017 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Craig is bleached and tatted in Nascar’s 11 The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky was released yesterday and it’s one of those automatic, Three Billboards - style I’M IN deals. You don’t even need to finish the trailer before you know whether or not this movie is for you. I knew it By Sarah • May 29, 2017 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver in Paterson Many were hoping that Paterson would have a chance at the Oscars and that there would be a surprise nomination yesterday, while acknowledging that the chances weren’t great. It certainly wasn’t the biggest snub, but most critics agree that Adam Driver’s performance stands up to any of By Sarah • Jan 25, 2017 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Martin Scorsese’s Silence Many are considering Silence to be an Oscar snub after nominations were announced. It took Martin Scorsese nearly thirty years to bring his adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel to the big screen. Clocking in at nearly three hours, Silence is a magnum opus of faith and doubt and a By Sarah • Jan 25, 2017 10:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Silence trailer is not silent Whenever Martin Scorsese directs a movie, it’s a foregone conclusion that it will be considered an Oscar contender. And so here we have the first trailer for his latest film, Silence, starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, and Liam Neeson, opening next month. Already the campaign narrative for Silence has By Lainey • Nov 23, 2016 11:34 am
