Movie Reviews and Previews Is Dolittle Cats 2.0? Robert Downey Jr.’s inexplicable passion project, Dolittle, comes out in two weeks. A new trailer arrived on New Year’s day to celebrate(?) this fact, and this time, it actually shows us RDJ as the man who talks to animals. The first trailer barely showed RDJ, but someone must By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to A Quiet Place A Quiet Place was one of the biggest hits of 2018, so it was not a surprise when John Krasinski decided to make a sequel. It was a little disheartening, because A Quiet Place is such a perfect, self-contained story, but in the blockbuster era of Hollywood, nothing is allowed By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews X-Men’s death rattle Over two years ago, we saw a trailer for The New Mutants, a would-be spin-off in the X-Men universe, about a group of “troubled” teen mutants trapped in a creepy institution. That trailer looked ridiculous and was not a confidence builder, but then The New Mutants derailed entirely when Disney By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rian Johnson’s Revenge Amidst all the caterwauling about Star Wars’ box office—which is fine by any and every measure—the real success story of the holiday season is Knives Out. It opened back in November, during the US Thanksgiving holiday, and it has trucked along steadily ever since, raking in over $247 By Sarah • Jan 07, 2020 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews 1917 starring Technical Achievement 1917, Sam Mendes’ World War I epic, is a technical marvel. Lensed by Roger Deakins in a series of long takes and edited by Lee Smith to appear as one continuous shot, 1917 is an incredibly gorgeous film, with many stunning images and sequences. One such sequence is shot at By Sarah • Dec 27, 2019 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Entertainment Self-Care: Holiday Rom-Coms No, these are not the purposefully awful Christmas-themed movies that occupy Hallmark, Lifetime, and Netflix this time of year. I watched a bunch of those last year and still haven’t recovered. I think half the reason my 2019 was so insane is because I started the year in a By Sarah • Dec 24, 2019 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Films of the Decade (2010s): Part II For Part 1 of The Best Films of the Decade, please click here. The final half of the best films of the decade. As always, this list is alphabetical, not ranked. The Love Witch (2016) A film of singular artistic vision, The Love Witch is produced, written, directed, edited, AND By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bombshell doesn’t quite work Bombshell tells the story of Roger Ailes’ ouster at Fox News amid a sexual harassment scandal. In hindsight, it’s a proto-#MeToo story about a predator felled when enough people listened to enough women recount horror stories of harassment and abuse, and it happened at one of the most By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What is Tenet? Christopher Nolan is one of the last big-name directors who can get butts in seats based on his name alone. He doesn’t have to tell us what his movies are about or even, really, who is in them (although he attracts star-studded casts, so Nolan casting announcements are always By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 09:48 am
Quiveration Sebastian Stan Year In Review: Hotness Maintained Sebastian Stan caps off his Year In Hot by appearing in Men’s Health. He is there, ostensibly, to talk about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which is filming now and due later next year on Disney+. But he is also looking extremely hot, in what is, I must By Sarah • Dec 19, 2019 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Films of the Decade (2010s): Part I After months of consideration, and getting so deep in the weeds that the words “best”, “film”, and “decade” have lost all meaning, here it is: my list of the best films of the decade. This list, which was supposed to be 20 films and ended up at 32, is a By Sarah • Dec 19, 2019 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews PS. I Still Love You Peter Kavinsk…oh HI John Ambrose! It’s here! The first trailer for PS I Still Love You, the sequel to To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, premiering on February 12 on Netflix, has been released and… well… I’m now a giant adolescent hormone. Like you, don’t lie, I watched TATBILB over By Lainey • Dec 19, 2019 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cats: They Never Stop Singing Cats begins with Victoria (Francesca Hayward), a cat-human hybrid escaped from the island of Dr. Moreau, abandoned on the streets of London. I am shocked that the location is not called “Meow Town”. Is this mercy? Is Cats mostly harmless, a little weird and off-putting but not sunk so low By Sarah • Dec 19, 2019 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars concludes (for now) in The Rise of Skywalker To follow a much-debated middle installment in a trilogy is a big task, and to wrap up a nine-film saga is a big task, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is better at one of those things than the other. As a conclusion to the “Skywalker Saga”, it is By Sarah • Dec 18, 2019 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill & Ted back in the booth The movie I am most looking forward to in 2020 is Bill & Ted Face the Music. I was reluctant to believe this movie was really happening, after almost thirty years of teasing it, but it is happening, it has happened, it will always happen. They filmed Bill & Ted By Sarah • Dec 18, 2019 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler still has a shot Back in September, Joanna wrote about the premiere of Adam Sandler’s Oscar hopeful, Uncut Gems. Well, Uncut Gems is now in theaters, and Adam Sandler’s Oscar hopes still exist. Reviews remained strong even after the festival buzz faded, an Uncut Gems hive has materialized online—led by Vulture’ By Sarah • Dec 17, 2019 04:24 pm
