Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars on pause After Solo’s disappointing box office, marking the first failure of Disney-era Lucasfilm, something amazing has happened: Lucasfilm has pressed pause. That is, they have put the spin-offs on ice for the time being. Collider reports that the “Star Wars Story” branch of films has been suspended indefinitely. Lucasfilm will By Sarah • Jun 21, 2018 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adonis Creed Returns In 2015, Creed was a surprise. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan, coming off Fruitvale Station, reinvigorated the Rocky franchise by making it about not only a new generation, but a new culture, passing the title and the franchise not to Rocky’s son but to Apollo Creed’s. Creed By Sarah • Jun 20, 2018 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Surprise, Tag doesn’t suck A high-concept comedy based on a Wall Street Journal article about a group of middle-aged dudes who play tag is not a sure thing, to say the least. But Tag, the movie based on that article, is, surprisingly, not bad. It’s not great, like most studio comedies it’s By Sarah • Jun 20, 2018 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Incredibles Return The Incredibles has stood for fourteen years as one of the best superhero movies ever made. In the time between the original and the sequel out now, The Incredibles has become so beloved that the film begins with an intro from the cast thanking fans for their patience, sticking out By Sarah • Jun 18, 2018 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Mr. Rogers Cry Fest Warning: You are going to need Kleenex. Like, a whole box of tissues. The Fred Rogers documentary Won’t You be My Neighbor? is basically a ninety-minute cry fest. I’m not an easy movie-crier, but I started crying in the first five minutes and did not stop until the By Sarah • Jun 15, 2018 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Aquaman: Everybody’s Wet Tonight Aquaman isn’t due until December, and for the first time this decade Warner Brothers and DC Films have not sprayed us down with marketing every minute of every day. With Aquaman they have displayed actual restraint, which means that we are only just now, six months out, starting to By Sarah • Jun 15, 2018 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Striped Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson has a new movie coming out next week, the quirky western Damsel in which he plays a lovelorn sap with a miniature horse named Butterscotch, trying to woo a woman who has no visible feelings for him. He co-stars with Mia Wasikowska, and they both turned out for By Sarah • Jun 14, 2018 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 1980s Wonder Woman Wonder Woman 2 began production today and to mark the occasion Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins tweeted out first-look images of Diana Prince and Steve Trevor. The sequel is titled Wonder Woman 1984—GREAT title—and so this is 1980s fashion for Diana and Steve. It’s not completely By Sarah • Jun 13, 2018 12:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie Foster in Hotel Artemis In case you, like me, watched the trailer for Hotel Artemis and thought, Oh, a fun John Wick knock-off, allow me to disabuse you of the notion. Despite obvious similarities, particularly in the “hotel for criminals” vein, Hotel Artemis isn’t really a John Wick knock-off. There’s a likeness, By Sarah • Jun 12, 2018 01:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Women successful, world marvels We’ve known for years that diversity is good business. It pays dividends to appeal to more than just one demographic. And some groups are so starved for decent content, if you make something halfway good targeted at the overlooked and underserved, you can earn a nice little profit. Make By Sarah • Jun 12, 2018 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Toni Collete in Hereditary Billed out of Sundance as the next Rosemary’s Baby and/or Exorcist, and hailed as the most terrifying movie you’ll ever see, Hereditary had an impossible hill of hype to climb. And indeed, it could not climb that hill, earning a D+ CinemaScore on its opening weekend. I By Sarah • Jun 11, 2018 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling goes to the moon We’re just a few months away from the fall festival circuit and award-season movie jamboree, which is why there have been so many f*cking trailers in the last week. The latest addition is for another automatic contender, First Man. It’s the re-team of Ryan Gosling and Damien By Sarah • Jun 11, 2018 01:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights heads to the Big Screen in 2020 You don’t need me to tell you about how today feels, and you don’t need me to tell you that Twitter is frequently a terrible, dumpster of a place to be. But what you might not know, and what might help a little today, is the revelation that By Duana • Jun 08, 2018 04:53 pm
Maple Leaf Ryan Gosling: First look at First Man Ryan Gosling is playing Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle’s new biopic First Man. Claire Foy is playing his wife, Janet Armstrong. The first trailer is premiering tonight during Jimmy Kimmel Live! which explains why Ryan was spotted wearing a spacesuit at the Kimmel studios yesterday. Ryan doesn’t leave By Kathleen • Jun 08, 2018 02:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth: Bad Guy Nearly a decade ago MGM went bankrupt and the resulting financial quagmire threw a lot of movies into disarray. It delayed development on a Bond movie, on The Hobbit which at the time was being stewarded by Guillermo Del Toro, and a bunch of movies got shelved in the fallout, By Sarah • Jun 08, 2018 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ocean’s 8 is sparkling rosé on a hot day That is to say, it’s delicious and indulgent and something to luxuriate in: a treat. Do you want to have a good time? A good time shall be had. Do you want to ogle outrageous wardrobes and gowns? Ogle you will. Are you here for a cast of talented By Sarah • Jun 08, 2018 10:41 am
