The new satirical rom-com Isn’t It Romantic follows a cynical New York City architect (Rebel Wilson) who, after an encounter with a mugger renders her unconscious, wakes to discover her life has turned into a romantic comedy. Ahead of its release in theaters today, we sat down with stars Rebel Wilson, Adam Devine, and…
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. With the Academy Awards right around the corner, we’re suggesting the perfect pairings for this year’s Best Picture nominees—movies to watch with, or instead of, each of them.
For the second-highest-grossing romantic comedy ever made, What Women Want hasn’t had much cultural staying power. The Mel Gibson-Helen Hunt vehicle mostly feels like a relic from a very different era, but it’s back in the consciousness again thanks to the recently released What Men Want, a…
The all-female film collective known as The Final Girls has announced the return of its We Are The Weirdos tour, showcasing nine horror short films in select cinemas throughout the U.K. starting on Saturday, February 16.
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. With the Academy Awards right around the corner, we’re suggesting the perfect pairings for this year’s Best Picture nominees—movies to watch with, or instead of, each of them.Â
The new romantic comedy Under The Eiffel Tower follows a middle-aged bourbon salesman (Veep’s Matt Walsh) who, in the midst of a mid-life crisis, travel across the French countryside and falls in love with a vineyard owner (Judith Godrèche). Ahead of its release on VOD, we spoke with Matt Walsh and Judith Godrèche…
Fighting With My Family is a shamelessly formulaic sponsored post of a crowd-pleaser that’s also, in its best moments, a genuinely stirring celebration of chase-your-dreams moxie. It presents the Cinderella (origin) story of professional wrestler Paige with just enough scrappy naturalism—enough English working-class…
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. With the Academy Awards right around the corner, we’re suggesting the perfect pairings for this year’s Best Picture nominees—movies to watch with, or instead of, each of them.
Milorad Krstic’s animated noir caper Ruben Brandt, Collector is a primal nod to both classic cinema and classical art. Well, really, to all art. As films like The Square and Velvet Buzzsaw have sought to identify what art is and how it fits into the modern life, Krstic’s movie offers perhaps the most complete answer:…
Populated by characters with names like Jarhead Earl and Chainsaw Angus, Frank Bill’s debut novel, Donnybrook, doesn’t necessarily aim to be perceived as naturalism, even if the meth-ravaged parts of Kentucky and Indiana where it takes place are very much based in reality. All the same, Tim Sutton’s screen adaptation…
The characters of the wildly prolific and consistent South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo are awkward guests in lives of missed opportunity and dreamlike repetition, their insensitivities and drifting attentions paralleled by a predisposition to smoke, drink, and overstay one’s welcome. In that sense, Ko…
The first thing we see in Birds Of Passage, a drama set among the Wayúu people of northern Colombia, is a ritual courtship dance that seems to accompany a young woman’s coming-of-age ceremony. Entering a circle of family and friends, the man seeking the woman’s favor proceeds to run backwards, while she, face painted…
Most sequels are time warps: It’s the audience that gets stuck in a loop, experiencing the same premise all over again. So it should come as no shock that Happy Death Day 2U finds a way to zap sorority girl Tree (Jessica Rothe) right back into the live-die-repeat cycle she escaped at the end of 2017’s horror-comedy…
To be sure, the truly hardened cynic will find plenty to pick apart in the new Rebel Wilson-led rom-com, Isn’t It Romantic. But such committed misanthropes, by definition, don’t enjoy much of anything. On the other extreme, the doe-eyed and optimistic will like the film—which extensively employs romantic-comedy…
The Paris of Christophe Honoré’s Sorry Angel is a world of blue. You see it in the plush navy seats of the theater where Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), a middle-aged writer with HIV, first meets Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), a handsome, slightly aloof student in his early 20s. You see it in the streets where the two get…
Thanos is undoubtedly one of Marvel’s most memorable on-screen villains, thanks both to Josh Brolin’s performance, and the visual effects team who designed the character and captured the performance. Luckily, their hard work has not gone unnoticed, as Infinity War’s VFX team was nominated for an Academy Award last…
A couple years ago, we asked Paul Scheer to rank his five worst movies of all time, but the list he came up with—which included Spider-Man 3 and The Last Airbender—hasn’t sat well with him. As the How Did This Get Made? host explained, “I just rattled them off immediately—I didn’t put any thought about it, and I felt…
This week marks the debut of Horror Noire, a new documentary premiering on Shudder that sheds much-needed light on a subject that’s often joked about, but rarely discussed in a comprehensive way: the relationship between African-Americans and horror movies. The documentary features writers, actors, directors, critics,…
Emmet, Wyldstyle, and the rest of the Bricksburg heroes return to take on the evil Duplo invaders in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. Ahead of the film hitting theaters this Friday premiere, we sat down with the cast and creators to talk about the anticipated sequel. For our last interview we talk with producers and…
Marvel was feeling itself. That’s the only real explanation. The comic book company had recovered from bankruptcy, blown out the idea of what a movie franchise could be, and been absorbed into the Disney maw. It had gotten the general public involved in dorked-out comic book ideas about extended continuity and…
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