Movie Reviews and Previews Your future indie favorite How to Talk to Girls at Parties played Cannes last year, the second of the Elle Fanning/Nicole Kidman movies (along with The Beguiled), and it still hasn’t got a North American release date, though indie distributor A24 has picked it up, so it’s coming. This is one By Sarah • Apr 03, 2018 11:23 am
BFFs Blake & Ryan support Emily & John Blake Lively and Reynolds showed up for the premiere of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place in New York last night. A Quiet Place is currently sitting at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Sarah saw it and will be posting her review soon. This post is about celebrity friendships and By Lainey • Apr 03, 2018 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson’s meticulous, highly stylized worlds are particularly suited to stop-motion animation, the most meticulous and stylized form of animation. It’s no coincidence that one of Anderson’s best films is The Fantastic Mr. Fox, his first attempt at stop-motion, and now he follows up Fox with another By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ready Player One is the nadir of fanboy culture Ready Player One is Steven Spielberg’s latest movie, a return to his populist roots and the escapist fantasies for which he is most famous. Based on poet Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name, RPO is a fanboy’s love letter to nostalgia and gatekeeping and now it’ By Sarah • Apr 02, 2018 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Amandla’s revolution In February, when the Parkland students were first mobilizing in their fight for gun control, a bunch of pieces like this one for Mashable titled “Of course the 'Hunger Games' generation knows how to use the media in the fight against guns,” were popping up. The point was By Kathleen • Mar 29, 2018 04:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone experiment While Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Unsane, is undeniably schlocky, Soderbergh is one of those filmmakers who can lean into trash and come up with something with actual heft (another member of this club is Jeremy Saulnier). Working from a script from Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer—the duo’s last By Sarah • Mar 29, 2018 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris & Annabelle? Gossip Easter egg! Gossip Passover treat! Chris Pine (who apparently is your favourite Chris, if I’m going by my inbox, because when I wrote about him last Friday so many of you begged me to kill your crush on him) and Annabelle Wallis were seen arriving at Heathrow together By Lainey • Mar 29, 2018 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy plays a gangster again He does it a lot. RocknRolla, Peaky Blinders, Legend, technically Inception and Dark Knight Rises, and that’s just the criminal/gangster roles I remember off the top of my head. Tom Hardy has a niche and it’s “unintelligible crime boss”. (I like Tom Hardy, he’s a great By Sarah • Mar 29, 2018 12:03 pm
Quiveration Michael B. Jordan in workout gear Do I have your attention? It has been a while since I’ve publicly ogled my Michael Bae Jordan. Privately, it happens daily. It has also been a while since we’ve checked in on Creed II. I’ll come back to that. First, let’s assess Michael Bae Jordan’ By Kathleen • Mar 29, 2018 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steampunk Cate Blanchett Eli Roth makes movies of varying degrees of watchability. For every Knock Knock there is an unwatchable Green Inferno, and his latest movie, the ill-advised Death Wish remake, fell on the “thoroughly unwatchable” end of the scale. But he’s already rebounding with a new movie due in September, and By Sarah • Mar 28, 2018 10:59 am
TV Updates Gina Rodriguez is Carmen Sandiego In preparation for this piece, I watched a full episode of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and oh my god, it was EVERYTHING. I remember it so well. I wanted to be a gumshoe so badly. I’m still just as bad at geography now as I was By Kathleen • Mar 27, 2018 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson is happy to see Jude Law There are new photos of Brie Larson on the set of Captain Marvel—she is still wearing that green not-iconic suit. We have all resigned ourselves to this suit, I just hope at some point between Captain Marvel and Avengers 4 we get to see Carol’s iconic comic book By Sarah • Mar 26, 2018 08:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Do not sleep on Thoroughbreds I already slept on The Love Witch, Anna Biller’s superbly stylized 2016 film about a witch addicted to love—it’s on Amazon Prime, so we can all get caught up—and I almost missed Thoroughbreds, so it is with the determination of not missing another offbeat genre flick By Sarah • Mar 23, 2018 02:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pacific Rim: Uprising is charmingly dumb…sort of It’s like, the DUMBEST. Not that anyone was expecting any different. It’s a movie about robots punching monsters—it was only ever going to be dumb. Not even Guillermo del Toro and his sincerity could stop Pacific Rim from being dumb, so the sequel from a bunch of By Sarah • Mar 23, 2018 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are bad spies Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon went on Ellen to premiere the first trailer for their upcoming comedy, The Spy Who Dumped Me, and holy crap does this movie look good. Comedy trailers are tricky—the trailer could be all the funny bits and then the movie itself disappoints—but this By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews What is going on with Deadpool 2 A new trailer for Deadpool 2—the official title, though I kinda wish they had stuck with “Untitled Deadpool Sequel”—has been released, and goddamn does the marketing for this movie remain on point. This trailer is GREAT, except for the increased screen time for TJ Miller, and actually gives By Sarah • Mar 22, 2018 12:49 pm
