Movie Reviews and Previews Armie Hammer is still in Death on the Nile The much-delayed Death on the Nile is set to finally premiere on February 11, 2022 (supposedly, let’s see if anything changes over the next couple of months). A new trailer dropped yesterday to remind everyone that this movie exists, and unlike the first trailer, which was borderline camp, By Sarah • Dec 22, 2021 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in The Tender Bar The basic concept of The Tender Bar is “what if Hillbilly Elegy, but mediocre?” Directed by George Clooney and adapted by William Monahan from J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name, The Tender Bar is a very similar premise to Hillbilly Elegy (while the film version beat The By Sarah • Dec 22, 2021 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard fulfills his destiny in The Northman Robert Eggers, auteur of the itchiest goddamn cinema, is back with a new film starring Alexander Skarsgard, The Northman. Skarsgard fulfills his destiny by playing Thor a Viking prince called Amleth. In medieval Scandi literature, Amleth is the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a boy whose father, the king, is By Sarah • Dec 21, 2021 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, As Sarah covered in yesterday’s open, the Spider-Man: No Way Home box office has been a big story – and relief – in Hollywood the last few days; considering the pandemic, and the fact that there’s been no shortage of Marvel superhero content this year (with WandaVision, By Lainey • Dec 21, 2021 08:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in 'Don’t Look Up' Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay and written by McKay from a story he developed with David Sirota, wants to be Network but for climate change. Roughly two-thirds of the way into the film, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio, whose performance is one of the only redeemable By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the greater Los Angeles milieu of the 1970s, but instead of a despairing tale about the failure of the American Dream, he’s here with a sweet, mostly gentle coming of age dramedy loosely inspired by his own adolescence in the Valley. As someone who By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Review: Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter Maggie Gyllenhaal makes her feature directorial debut with The Lost Daughter, an adaptation, also by Gyllenhaal, of Elena Ferrante’s novella. Gyllenhaal is astoundingly assured, as both a director and a screenwriter, interweaving past and present into a crushing tale of motherhood and personhood that are not always in agreement. By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Review: Hell is other people in Nightmare Alley Following the fish f-cking of The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro returns the slightly more normal world of monstrous humanity, where there are no fish-men or haunted houses or magical labyrinths, only the hell of other people. Directed by Del Toro, and adapted by Del Toro and By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Movie with MOVIE STARS! How many of us are there out there? How big is our club? The club is People Who Love Rom-Coms and Will Pay To See Them in Theatres. Are we old? There’s been a lament in the movie industry over the last decade or so – and especially now By Lainey • Dec 17, 2021 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: No Way Home brings Peter Parker full circle Mild spoilers, nothing big but a little more context than the trailers. Marvel movies typically go one of two ways: they start out great but fall apart in the third act, or they start slow but end strong. Spider-Man: No Way Home, directed by Jon Watts, falls into the By Sarah • Dec 16, 2021 01:45 pm
Top Reads Aline will haunt us forever Moonfall is already the dumbest movie of 2022, but you know what the most INSANE movie of 2022 will be? Aline. There is no doubt in my mind that NOTHING will top Aline for sheer, jaw-dropping scope of absurdity. Aline, an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, is By Sarah • Dec 16, 2021 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Critics’ Choice nominations: As expected, no Green Knight The Critics’ Choice Association just announced their film nominations, on the heels of the HFPA announcing the Golden Globes nominations earlier this morning. Full disclosure, I am a member of the CCA, so I get to nominate films, and while I didn’t expect all my nominations to line up By Sarah • Dec 13, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Simon Rex (yes, that’s right) in Red Rocket Erstwhile MTV VJ and 2000s It Boy actor Simon Rex makes a, frankly, shocking comeback in Sean Baker’s latest slice of life realist drama, Red Rocket. Starring as Mikey, a washed-up porn star, Rex (who has his own history with the adult entertainment industry) gives the kind of By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 03:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel’s Chippendales movie is growing True crime is a vast genre, and every aficionado has their preferred corners of the true crime library. Mine is “cocaine-fueled mayhem of the Seventies and Eighties”, so the story of the Chippendales murder-for-hire plot is an old, well not favorite, because people died, but a much- By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fine, yes, I like West Side Story Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story, originally adapted to film in 1961 and now reimagined by Spielberg and Tony Kushner, is about as good as movie musicals get. It’s big, it’s melodramatic, the songs, penned by Steven Sondheim, fill the room with emotion, and Leonard Bernstein’ By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde can’t turn down a dare Olivia Wilde covers the January 2022 issue of Vogue, which surprised me because it seems like this is in service of the next project she’s promoting, her sophomore directorial effort, Don’t Worry Darling, as she appears in several of the photos alongside cinematographer Matthew Libatique – and the film By Lainey • Dec 10, 2021 11:00 am
