Movie Reviews and Previews Short haired Keanu This week has been nine years and it’s only Wednesday. I am TIRED, I am OVER IT, I am mentally on my COUCH under a BLANKET, do not call me, I have thrown my phone into the SEA. And just when I think I cannot TAKE any MORE, lo, By Sarah • Apr 03, 2024 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenya Barris’s parting gift Rewind time and recall that Kenya Barris, the creator of Black-ish, signed a mega-deal to produce series and films for Netflix. That was 2018. By January 2021, Barris broke up with Netflix, dissatisfied with the inability to be as “edgy” as he wanted. He said he wants to do “in-your-face By Sarah • Dec 06, 2022 11:37 am
Style Jennifer Lawrence’s golden return to the red carpet Even before COVID, Jennifer Lawrence was keeping it low-key. Last night’s Don’t Look Up red carpet was her first film premiere, by my records, since Dark Phoenix in June 2019. She is a major movie star, pretty sure I don’t have to list off her credentials, so By Lainey • Dec 06, 2021 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Comedy Leonardo DiCaprio The first teaser for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up gave us a glimpse of Leonardo DiCaprio in rare comedy mode, and the new “Tudum” teaser doubles down, giving us even more of comedy Leo D in action. He’s sweaty, nervous, he has a stupid haircut and an By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Look Up and Jennifer Lawrence’s big news The never-ending deluge of trailers continues with Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, another Netflix movie we won’t remember in six months. This is the fancier version of Moonfall, about a comet headed for Earth and, I guess, the political maneuvering that goes on around an end-of-the-world scenario. By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Dano > Jonah Hill There was a report circulating for the last month that Jonah Hill was in talks for a villainous role in The Batman, with everyone guessing who he could be playing and how much he would get paid (the Penguin and $10 million were betting favorites). But yesterday, Hill passed on By Sarah • Oct 17, 2019 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is McConaughey even acting? Harmony Korine, who is the filmmaking equivalent to Florida, is finally following up his last feature, 2012’s Spring Breakers, with The Beach Bum, which actually looks like a real movie? At least, it looks about as straight forward as anything Korine has made. This is the guy, after all, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2019 02:25 pm
TV Updates Maniac is a sideways examination of healing Describing Maniac is pointless. It’s a dozen different shows stuffed into one larger framework, and if it accomplishes nothing else, it at least makes me want to see a fantasy series starring Emma Stone as a half-elf ranger with a drinking problem. But Maniac does accomplish more than that— By Sarah • Sep 26, 2018 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mid90s is Jonah Hill’s Lady Bird Bradley Cooper and Jonah Hill are tight, so it’s interesting that both of their directorial debuts, A Star is Born and Mid90s, premiered on the same night, in the same city, right after each other on Sunday. According to Jonah, they watched cuts of each others’ movies, and helped By Joanna • Sep 13, 2018 12:23 pm
TV Updates Cary Fukanaga’s next thing Cary Joji Fukanaga has been absent our screens since Beasts of No Nation. He returns to Netflix in September, though, with a limited series called Maniac that he adapted from a Norwegian show. The details have been scarce until now, about six weeks before the series debuts, as we finally By Sarah • Aug 07, 2018 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonah Hill needs a new nickname Lainey calls him “Jonah Hill, 2x Oscar nominee and friend of Leo, Scorsese, and Brange”, but I think Jonah Hill needs a nickname update. Not only because the Brange is no more—who do you think got him in the divorce?—but because Jonah Hill has another tick on his By Sarah • Jul 25, 2018 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is Gus Van Sant’s first feature film since 2015’s disastrous Sea of Trees. Three years is not an unreasonable amount of time between features, but given how very, very bad Trees is, Foot can’t help but feel By Sarah • Jul 24, 2018 04:42 pm
TV Updates Superbad reunion Yesterday Netflix released a batch of first-look photos of their new series, Maniac, which is a “psychological black comedy” and not another remake of the slasher classic of the same name. If you examine these photos closely, you will notice Maniac stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, reuniting a decade By Sarah • Apr 19, 2018 10:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Counterpoint: He Won’t Get Far The first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot—maybe the longest title since The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford—was released yesterday. It looks very good. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as cartoonist John By Sarah • Jan 17, 2018 10:38 am
SAG Awards 2017 Not cool enough for Jonah Hill Everything I hate about Jonah Hill, 2X Oscar nominee and friend of Leo, Scorsese, and Brange (before they broke), was all on display last night when he took the stage to present Best Actress to his friend Emma Stone. It was right after David Harbour had everyone cheering and screaming By Lainey • Jan 30, 2017 08:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Miles Teller and Jonah Hill in War Dogs Playing a little catch up as we close out August, starting with Todd Phillips’ latest bro-nightmare movie, War Dogs. For a director known for comedies—namely The Hangover trilogy, but also Road Trip, Old School, and Due Date, among others—Phillips doesn’t seem to like directing comedies. He got By Sarah • Aug 31, 2016 09:56 am
