Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick and two very good boys And Halle Berry. New images from John Wick: Chapter 3 are out—oh, is that trailer coming soon, then?—and they show two sides of John Wick: Rainy John Wick and Dry John Wick. He’s looking a little worse for wear, sporting long hair and a struggle beard, and By Sarah • Dec 20, 2018 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is this movie a mess? The first trailer for Where’d You Go, Bernadette, adapted from a novel by Maria Semple, was released yesterday, and it looks like a standard “quirky family dramedy”. It stars Cate Blanchett as Wacky Mom, Billy Crudup as her seemingly perfect but, I’m guessing, having-an-affair husband, Emma By Sarah • Dec 19, 2018 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #HotJafar Entertainment Weekly has a first look at the live-action Aladdin coming from Guy Ritchie in 2019 and it looks fine. It looks like a big budget movie with elaborate sets and costumes, and human people who will talk and sing. As this is a Guy Ritchie movie, I expect By Sarah • Dec 19, 2018 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise and another moustache Remember all the drama over Henry Cavill’s moustache in Mission: Impossible – Fallout? Two studios were fighting over that moustache which resulted in his moustache looking super weird in Justice League. Sarah’s theory, hilariously, about the moustache and why it even needed to happen at all in Mission: Impossible By Lainey • Dec 18, 2018 04:12 pm
Style Hailee’s good buzz Back in June, when the first trailer for Bumblebee was released, Sarah wrote that she didn’t hate it. In fact, she was charmed and surprised by its sweetness because the story is about Hailee Steinfeld and her new friend, Bumblebee, the alien. Not unlike Elliott and E.T. So, By Lainey • Dec 18, 2018 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Fantasy Jobs In the final installment in our series of Netflix’s terrible holiday rom-coms, we’re featuring those movies that have completely unrealistic expectations of creative jobs. You know the type—she’s a baker who never has to go to work at four AM, or a writer who never By Sarah • Dec 18, 2018 01:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a comic book come to life Over the weekend, animated superhero movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse became the number one movie in North America—the thirteenth number one weekend for a Marvel character this year and the biggest December animated opening ever—with $35.3 million, once again proving that audiences are not tired By Sarah • Dec 18, 2018 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Surprise Royalty Continuing our series of Netflix’s terrible holiday rom-coms, here is a handy viewing guide to the royal themed holiday rom-coms you can stream to your delight and horror. A Christmas Prince The movie that put Netflix’s bad holiday rom-coms on the map. A Christmas Prince By Sarah • Dec 17, 2018 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Guide to Netflix’s Bad Holiday Rom-Coms: Small Towns It’s a tradition every December, to watch holiday romantic comedies, some of the most objectively awful movies ever produced, with cheesy stories, painful dialogue, and a formula so well-trod you can guess plot points so easily you might as well make a drinking game out of it. Netflix, By Sarah • Dec 17, 2018 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top 10 Movies of 2018 2018 was a good year for film—a REALLY good year. Narrowing down a Top 10 was difficult and came down to which films left the biggest mark, whether it be creating a cultural phenomenon or lingering in my mind for the better part of a year. I looked for By Sarah • Dec 14, 2018 02:37 pm
BFFs A Quiet Place (and Team Blunt) cranks up the volume Chris Pratt hosted a special screening of A Quiet Place in LA on Wednesday with John Krasinski. It’s not like their friendship is a secret; they’re super bro-y on Instagram and support each other’s charity efforts. Plus, Chris was so taken with A Quiet Place that By Joanna • Dec 14, 2018 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emilia & Henry: this Christmas, next Christmas, Last Christmas This Christmas Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding are shooting Paul Feig’s Last Christmas, a romantic comedy which is scheduled for release next Christmas, possibly with the hopes of becoming the new Love Actually? Emma Thompson co-wrote the screenplay and she also has a part in the movie which By Lainey • Dec 13, 2018 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa in the totally bonkers Aquaman Aquaman is so incredibly dumb I don’t know how to review it other than to just tell you what it is and emphasize how extremely likeable it is in the face of its own sheer stupidity. So there will be some spoilers, but also realize that mere words cannot By Sarah • Dec 13, 2018 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie in Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots is a slightly anachronistic and completely ahistorical telling of the feud between Mary, Queen of Scots—the lack of proper punctuation in the title drives me nuts—and Queen Elizabeth I. Take this as even less of a history lesson than The Favourite, as Mary Queen By Sarah • Dec 13, 2018 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 13, 2018 Dear Gossips, As you may have heard, the Screen Actors Guild award nominations kicked off all kinds of talk and frustration about snubs and category fraud yesterday. There are actors and films that have been recognized and awarded for weeks that the guild ignored. There is also a film that By Lainey • Dec 13, 2018 09:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everybody loves Emily There were some significant snubs today when the SAG nominations were announced. We’ll discuss them here and there in other posts later and what that means for Oscar. It’s a competitive year. That’s the simple, incomplete explanation. It’s also, as always, a popularity contest. And what By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 04:21 pm
