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
Movie Reviews and Previews Moviegoers didn’t show up for Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell Richard Jewell did not perform well at the box office this weekend. It’s Clint Eastwood’s “worst opening in four decades”. The film is about Richard Jewell, the man wrongfully accused of the Centennial Park bombing during the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, and the latest white male hero trumpeted By Sarah • Dec 17, 2019 03:19 pm
Style Emma Watson: Outfit of The (Last) Week and Little Women press I ran out of time last Friday and couldn’t get to the Outfit of the Week which was Emma Watson’s Balenciaga at the Little Women premiere in New York. The event happened early in the week and I had it marked for end of week and then Duana By Lainey • Dec 17, 2019 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver, the new frontrunner? Timing is working out really well in Adam Driver’s favour right now for award season. He probably doesn’t much care about this (more on that in a minute) but Netflix would care. Marriage Story is Netflix and right now, his performance in Marriage Story has put him in By Lainey • Dec 17, 2019 11:05 am
Music Taylor’s first 30 red carpet Premiere of Cats last night in New York. Reactions are still coming in and Sarah’s seeing it on Wednesday so we’ll have her review posted later this week. This will be her first Cats experience – she’s never seen the musical. I’m more excited about her review By Lainey • Dec 17, 2019 10:06 am
