Movie Reviews and Previews The Little Mermaid highlights poor Caribbean representation The Little Mermaid is making quite the splash following the world premiere in Hollywood, which Sarah wrote about here. For the most part, Black people across the globe have been ecstatic to finally have a Black Ariel. But the excitement came to a bit of a halt, replaced instead with By Stephanie • May 12, 2023 12:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone is a Poor Thing Yorgos Lanthimos is back, baby! He’s reteaming with Emma Stone for Poor Things, a Frankensteinian tale adapted from Scottish writer Alasdair Gray’s award-winning novel of the same name. Stone plays Bella, a woman brought back to life by a mad scientist, played, naturally, by Willem Dafoe. The film By Sarah • May 11, 2023 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Beetlejuice…Beetlejuice… For many years now, I have refused to believe in the possibility of Beetlejuice 2, but now, it seems, it is finally happening, it’s real this time. According to Warner Bros. Discovery, Beetlejuice 2 starts filming in London TODAY, with Tim Burton directing, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder returning, By Sarah • May 10, 2023 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hamill + Hiddleston + King Cannes is coming, which means not only the film festival kicking off next week, but also the film market, in which upcoming productions will be sold for financing. One such project is The Life of Chuck, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella about Charles Krantz, a 39-year-old man with By Sarah • May 09, 2023 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Wheatley’s Meg 2 Starring Jason Statham The Meg is a super stupid shark movie that shot itself in the foot by going for a watered down PG-13 rating instead of going hard R and giving us the great cinematic spectacle of a giant water monster eating a lot of dumb people. It’s mostly just good By Sarah • May 09, 2023 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Book Club ladies reunite Book Club was a surprisingly charming movie, and I was hoping the sequel, Book Club: The Next Chapter would be a kind of Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again surprise in which the sequel is at least as fun and entertaining as the original film, but alas, it is not. By Sarah • May 09, 2023 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Under the sea with MONSTERS The world premiere of The Little Mermaid (live action redux) was last night in Los Angeles. Everyone turned up: Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay—grown up!—Daveed Diggs, who voices Sebastian in the film, and Viscountess Bridgerton herself, Simone Ashley, who plays one of Ariel’s By Sarah • May 09, 2023 09:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This Barbie is Oppenheimer Barbie and Oppenheimer continue to be joined at the collective consciousness’s hip because they are both being released on July 21. People are trying to make this into a thing, but they’re different movies aimed at different audiences. Given its broader, more family-friendly appeal, Barbie has a very By Sarah • May 08, 2023 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guardians’ final foray in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 The Guardians of the Galaxy go out with a big ole bang in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the final film in Marvel’s weirdest franchise about a bunch of space misfits. Written and directed by James Gunn—to date, the only person to usher a full trilogy through By Sarah • May 05, 2023 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Guardians of the Galaxy comes with a WARNING Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 opens tomorrow. The Super Mario Bros. Movie has reigned supreme over the box office for the last month, topping $1 billion and becoming the highest-grossing animated film from Universal—yes, beating even the Minions—and the highest-grossing video game adaption to date. It’s By Sarah • May 04, 2023 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The less boring Dune The first trailer for Dune: Part Two (sadly, not titled Dune: Part Deunx) dropped today, showing off the return of Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya as desert would-be lovers Paul Atreides and Chani, as well as new cast additions Florence Pugh, as imperial Princess Irulan, and Austin Butler as the bald By Sarah • May 03, 2023 02:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Hampshire in The End of Sex Movies about monogamous hetero couples closing in on middle age and having an intimacy crisis about it are nothing new. Stanley Kubrick trod this ground in Eyes Wide Shut to great effect, and The End of Sex follows a familiar path, albeit in a suburban Canadian setting, which means that By Sarah • Apr 28, 2023 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Next Goal Wins looks charming* CinemaCon rolls on, and one of the (few) trailers released is for Next Goal Wins, Michael Fassbender’s return to acting since taking a break (technically a “retirement”, but come on, no one really believed he was never going to act again) following 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. It’s By Sarah • Apr 27, 2023 03:08 pm
Douchebags The Flash hype train is now boarding CinemaCon is ongoing in Las Vegas, and The Flash was the centerpiece of the Warner Bros. Discovery presentation yesterday, dropping a new trailer—which was released online—and screening the whole film for an audience of press and theater owners. The Flash hype train is officially leaving the station, and By Sarah • Apr 26, 2023 12:21 pm
Gorgessity Dune 2: More Zendaya please Dune was a major success when it was released in October 2021 grossing more than $400 million at the box office and winning six Oscars. Dune 2 comes out in November and is also expected to be a big earner and an Academy Awards contender. I get why so many By Lainey • Apr 26, 2023 11:03 am
Style Barbie and Ken go to Vegas What’s the most anticipated summer blockbuster of the year? The answer to this question is usually a superhero movie, or a movie with explosions. This year, however, at least in my feed, the one we’re most looking forward to is Barbie, right? It’s a movie that will By Lainey • Apr 26, 2023 10:21 am
