Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in Here Thirty years after Forrest Gump, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, screenwriter Eric Roth, and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite for Here, a bland, mawkish film that takes the “drawing room” part of “drawing room play” incredibly seriously. Roth and Zemeckis collaborate on a script adapting Richard McGuire’s experimental graphic By Sarah • Nov 01, 2024 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Not my Here I like comics. If you’ve been reading this site for any length of time, you know that based on how I cover superhero movies. But I also like comic strips. From the time I learned to read until I left for college, my dad would leave the “funny pages” By Sarah • Jun 27, 2024 02:57 pm
Tom Hanks Austin, Barry, Callum: The Top Guns of 2024 Last night was the premiere of Apple TV’s Masters of the Air produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg about the 100th Bombardment Group of the American Eighth Air Force during WWII. It’s the latest war story project from Tom and Steven after Band of Brothers and The By Lainey • Jan 11, 2024 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler’s Elvis voice is back Tom Hanks continues his quest to lionize every facet of World War II with Masters of the Air, a spiritual successor of his previous WWII-focused miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific. This time, Masters of the Air focuses on the US Army Air Forces and is based on Donald By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone famous in Asteroid City Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who has long been interested in dysfunctional families, fathers and sons, grief, love, and a sense of style so precise he’s his own sub-genre of cinema. His latest, Asteroid City, embraces all of Anderson’s usual quirks and pursuits, with an added dash of By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wes Anderson’s alien movie By this point, either Wes Anderson’s twee little dioramas work for you, or they don’t. They almost always work for me, I like the dark streak at the heart of all his stories, the human messiness juxtaposed with his strict papercraft sensibility. I also don’t mind his By Sarah • Mar 30, 2023 11:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks is NOT doing a silly voice It’s been a busy year for Tom Hanks, with Elvis in the summer, that cursed Pinocchio remake in September, and now A Man Called Otto, a Grinch-esque feel-good dramedy due just in time for the holidays (sort of). A trailer for A Man Called Otto dropped yesterday, and I By Sarah • Oct 21, 2022 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pinocchio is probably cursed I’ll say this for Pinocchio, the latest in the Disney live-action remakes, it’s not Cats. That’s sort of like saying I only got hit by a car, not completely run over. Both seem pretty bad. And while yes, Pinocchio is bad, it’s not inventively bad like By Sarah • Sep 08, 2022 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pinocchio wants to eat your soul The teaser for Disney’s live-action remake of Pinocchio brought us another patented Tom Hanks Silly Voice, and the full trailer, which dropped yesterday, gives us a clear look at CG Pinocchio and by the old gods and the new, I vow to find this abomination upon our world and By Sarah • Aug 25, 2022 11:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in Elvis Baz Luhrmann’s sprawling music biopic, Elvis, is the best and worst of Luhrmann’s brand of ritzy-glitzy filmmaking. On the one hand, Luhrmann’s signature maximalism is perfectly suited to the unabashedly tacky Elvis, both the man who loved flashy clothes and accoutrement, and the icon immortalized in rhinestone By Sarah • Jun 24, 2022 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks is in his silly voice era We are in for TWO Pinocchio movies this year, which is two too many, between the Netflix stop-motion version of the story from Guillermo Del Toro starring Ewan McGregor, and Disney’s live-action version starring Tom Hanks. A teaser for the Disney update has dropped, and between this and whatever By Sarah • Jun 02, 2022 01:08 pm
Quiveration Austin Butler: Before the Madness Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis premiered at Cannes earlier this week to a big reaction. So far, the 12-minute standing ovation that the film received is the longest of the festival this year and as I mentioned in my coverage of the premiere yesterday, there’s already talk that Austin Butler’ By Lainey • May 27, 2022 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Cannes does. It was reported this week that Maverick: Legend of the Skies Top Gun: Maverick will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May. The Croisette? More like the CRUISETTE. Cannes is BIG, it is GLAMOR, it is By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews News of the World is the dad movie of 2020 In News of the World, Tom Hanks stars as the extravagantly named Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a world-weary Civil War veteran who is atoning for his Confederate past by attempting to bring frontier communities together through the power of stories. In 1870, Kidd crisscrosses Texas to read the news to By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 09:52 am
TV Updates Saturday Night Live, At Home On Saturday night we had a games night over FaceTime (shout-out to whomever is writing the article about which group chat apps are chosen for which activities.) It was the most fun – and the most ‘out’ – I’ve felt in weeks. But even though it was great, or maybe because By Duana • Apr 13, 2020 12:50 pm
Top Reads Rona Cancel Culture Are we going to die? And not because of the stupid virus! It’s the goddamn news ABOUT the virus that’s killing me. It’s SO MUCH. Last night, in the span of like, 15 MINUTES we learned the following: • The US is banning all travel from Europe for By Sarah • Mar 12, 2020 10:05 am
