What Else Friday Funday with Jack and Paul Programming note: We will be dark beginning Monday, December 22, and will return on Monday, January 5, 2026, with our coverage of the Critics Choice Awards. In between, daily chats at The Squawk will be open for holiday hangs. Off to the liminal space! To wrap up LG’s 2025 By Sarah • Dec 19, 2025 04:00 pm
What Else Jack Black is theme dressing too Not exactly the celebrity who’d come to mind first if you’re thinking about the stars theme dressing for appearances during a movie press tour but it does make sense that Jack Black would do it, because he’s never been against a stunt, and there’s not that By Lainey • Dec 18, 2025 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nu-Anaconda I have been curious about the Anaconda reboot since it was announced last year. I don’t think all IP is created equal, and I’m not sure what the nostalgia really is for a movie known for being so bad the franchise eventually turned into Syfy Channel dreck. But By Sarah • Sep 18, 2025 12:40 pm
What Else “It’s chaos, be kind” It’s Big Slick weekend in Kansas City, which means a cadre of celebrities who call Kansas City, or more generously Kansas and Missouri, home turn up for a weekend of sports and goofiness to benefit Children’s Mercy Hospital in KC. It started as a poker tournament back when By Sarah • May 30, 2025 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega in Death of a Unicorn A harried father and his sullen college-aged daughter drive through a lush forest, on their way to a working weekend with the family behind the pharmaceutical company that employs dad. He’s nervous and stressed, his daughter is checked out and maybe a little annoyed that dad might have been By Sarah • Mar 26, 2025 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson have Friendship I am so mad at myself for missing Friendship at TIFF last fall, but it didn’t fit into my schedule. I have never quite forgiven myself for that, though, not least because the film went on to be named second runner-up for TIFF’s Midnight Madness People’s Choice By Sarah • Feb 12, 2025 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Unproblematic fave Paul Rudd Today in the USA is a horror show, it’s not that I don’t care, it’s not that I don’t want to or will not bear witness to the sh-tstorm coming our way, it’s just that I need a five minute f-cking break. And today, that By Sarah • Jan 20, 2025 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Jack Black sign up for slithering Today in Let The Past Die news, Paul Rudd and Jack Black are in talks to star in a remake of the 1997 film Anaconda which was Owen Wilson’s first big Hollywood role, and Jennifer Lopez’s follow up to Selena (look, it can take time for a movie By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More nostalgia with Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Ghostbusters: Afterlife was an overly serious effort to place Ghostbusters on the hallowed ground of (aging) fandom after the misfire of 2016’s Ghostbusters – Answer The Call (ironically, that film did spawn some new, younger fans who are prohibitively shut out of enjoying the newer films in the franchise). Ghostbusters: By Sarah • Mar 22, 2024 01:05 pm
TV Updates The Arconia podcasters are back Only Murders in the Building is back, and after a sophomore season that upped the cozy vibes but meandered a little through a looser, less tightly plotted murder caper, season three finds the balance between all the things Murders wants to be—a New York show, an intergenerational hangout sitcom, By Sarah • Aug 09, 2023 01:15 pm
TV Updates Return to The Arconia The world’s most unlikely comfort watch is back, baby! Only Murders in the Building returns for a third season on August 8, and while we are stretching the premise well past the point of credulity—the murders are no longer in the building—I cannot WAIT to return to By Sarah • Jul 27, 2023 01:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Up until now, the Ant-Man films have been a charmingly inconsequential corner of the MCU, offering family-friendly adventures and low stakes stories that work as a kind of pressure valve for the bigger, more centralized stories responsible for carrying the interconnected narrative forward. Well, that’s all gone now, as By Sarah • Feb 20, 2023 02:44 pm
Aging Gorgessity Paul Rudd doesn’t drop the skincare routine Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a couple weeks away, so the press tour is in high gear now. Accordingly, Paul Rudd is on the cover of Men’s Health. First and most importantly: does he drop the skincare routine? NO. But his ageless looks do come up. I make By Sarah • Feb 02, 2023 10:08 am
TV Updates Meryl moved into The Arconia Only Murders in the Building season three is filming now. Selena Gomez posted a video on Instagram yesterday showing her back on set with Steve Martin, Martin Short, Andrea Martin—are Charles and Joy happening?!—as well as Paul Rudd, and another season three newcomer…Meryl Streep! This is her By Sarah • Jan 18, 2023 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t make Ant-Man do Big Lore After the uneven highs and lows of Phase 4, Marvel is moving into Phase 5—do you ever picture Marvel’s multi-phase plan looking like a totally out of control tweet thread? Like, Phase 5/347—with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania coming in February. Last night, they dropped a By Sarah • Jan 10, 2023 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ant-Man has his hands full We’re on the brink of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but the Marvel machine doesn’t stop for anyone or anything, not even what is essentially a cinematic moment of silence for Chadwick Boseman. The trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dropped yesterday, it’s Marvel’s next big By Sarah • Oct 25, 2022 02:10 pm
