Relationship Assumption The Mulaney Munn maybe baby I hate bump watch. I am uninterested in my womb, your womb, anyone’s womb. It’s not my business unless you make it my business by telling me about it directly, and even then, I am not inherently fascinated by babies and pregnancies. That said, there is a point By Sarah • Sep 07, 2021 02:43 pm
Business of Hollywood More Disney drama Do you know how rare it is to have two posts in one day about Disney’s business? I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve written about Disney’s business (other than box office, that is) in the last ten-plus years, but here we are By Sarah • Sep 07, 2021 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu hit a grand slam…and a back flip Despite the ongoing pandemic, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings posted a record-breaking opening weekend of $90 million for the four-day frame in the US. Even in normal times, this would be a Labor Day box office record, so it’s HUGE that Shang-Chi accomplished this at a By Sarah • Sep 07, 2021 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu and Tony Leung in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings may be Marvel’s first film centered on an East Asian hero, but it is also yet another origin story for a Marvel hero, though one that benefits from the ten or so origin stories that came before it. In almost every By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paramount shoves off (again) In yet another ill omen for the remainder of 2021, Paramount has moved their remaining movies, including Mission: Impossible 7 and Top Gun: Maverick, to 2022. We’ve been here before, and has always been the case with Paramount, they simply will not risk Tom Cruise’s ire by attempting By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond, for real this time Way back when this interminable nightmare began, No Time To Die was the film industry bellwether, being the first major movie to push back its release date due to coronavirus. Now, though Team Bond is sticking with their current release plan, dropping a final trailer ahead of the film’s By Sarah • Sep 01, 2021 12:14 pm
TV Updates Reservation Dogs: An Indigenous Hang-out Sitcom I have dithered over this review for a while, partly because I am just plain enjoying Reservation Dogs, and sometimes when you enjoy something you don’t want to commodify it. But also partly because with each new episode I fall further down the rabbit hole of struggling to express By Sarah • Aug 31, 2021 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris in Candyman Candyman opened at #1 at the US box office over the weekend, making Nia DaCosta the first Black female director to open a #1 film in North America. That is simultaneously a great accomplishment for her, and sad/embarrassing for the industry at large that it took until 2021 for By Sarah • Aug 30, 2021 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Gyllenhaal gets ready for the 2020s I was just thinking the other day how about ten years ago, Jake Gyllenhaal tried to be an action star and audiences were like, Nah, we’re good, and that the flop of The Prince of Persia led to one of the most interesting runs an American actor had in By Sarah • Aug 30, 2021 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart dances as Diana Another fall festival film that dropped a teaser yesterday is Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, the biopic about Princess Diana starring Kristen Stewart. We just saw the gorgeous poster showing an emotionally wrought Diana, and now we have a teaser showing an emotionally wrought Diana. Spencer is a fictionalization of a By Sarah • Aug 27, 2021 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch whistles with menace Jane Campion’s first feature film in twelve years is The Power of the Dog, an adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name. Ahead of the film’s premiere at Venice, the teaser has dropped and it features Benedict Cumberbatch whistling menacingly while Kirsten Dunst expresses By Sarah • Aug 27, 2021 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Women of Wakanda return Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is filming now in Cambridge, MA. Set photos have dropped showing Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright in costume as Okoye and Princess Shuri (Queen Shuri?), respectively. We also have our first look at Dominique Thorne, who made her feature film debut in If Beale Street Could By Sarah • Aug 26, 2021 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spencer is coming for the royals Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, about Princess Diana and the meltdown of the Wales marriage over a fateful Christmas at Sandringham, is set to premiere at Venice in a couple weeks. It will then play at TIFF. I’m sure a trailer is coming soon, but first, there is key art, By Sarah • Aug 25, 2021 03:28 pm
Amazingness Warner Brothers tries to win back theater owners CinemaCon, the annual summit between distributors and exhibitors held in Las Vegas, is happening right now. It just occurred to me that this might be the last CinemaCon as we’ve known it for the past 30-ish years. Next year, studios will be able to buy theaters, and then what By Sarah • Aug 25, 2021 12:29 pm
TV Updates John Cho has GREAT hair That’s not a secret, he’s always had great hair, but the first photos from Cowboy Bebop are really leaning into John Cho’s great hair. The photo with the headphones, especially, is all about the hair. The height, the swoop, it’s like a perfect parabola of hair. By Sarah • Aug 24, 2021 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Peter Parker vs. Doctor Strange Over the weekend, a trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home leaked. Now, with CinemaCon, the annual convention for theater owners in Las Vegas, underway, the trailer has been released for real. (Sidebar: Having CinemaCon right now doesn’t feel like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, it feels like trying By Sarah • Aug 24, 2021 10:11 am
