TV Updates Everyone’s favorite fantasy himbo is back The Witcher was Netflix’s dumb-fun hit of late 2019/early 2020—that seems like both forever ago and surprisingly recent—and on Friday, the first teaser for season two dropped, bringing back Henry Cavill as everyone’s favorite fantasy himbo, Geralt of Rivia. The show was delayed thanks to By Sarah • Jul 12, 2021 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow: The box office is back Over the last few months, as theaters have reopened, the box office has been lurching back into gear. Godzilla vs. Kong got the ball rolling, F9 kicked it into second gear, and Black Widow just set a record with a record domestic opening during the pandemic with $80 million, besting By Sarah • Jul 12, 2021 10:27 am
TV Updates Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain’s marriage horror story A new adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From A Marriage is coming to HBO from Israeli filmmaker Hagai Levi. It was originally supposed to star Oscar Isaac and Michelle Williams, but then Williams had to drop out and Jessica Chastain stepped in, reuniting the A Most Violent Year co-stars. By Sarah • Jul 09, 2021 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow: Marvel is back Black Widow marks Marvel’s return to theaters after a two-year forced hiatus. Directed by Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome, Lore) and written by Marvel veteran Eric Pearson (with a story by Ned Benson and WandaVision’s Jac Schaeffer), the film begins with an extended cold open that flashes back to By Sarah • Jul 08, 2021 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt in The Tomorrow War The Tomorrow War, which comes from director Chris McKay and writer Zach Dean, clearly, desperately, wants to be Independence Day for the 21st century, but it so fundamentally misunderstands the assignment that it’s missed the science fair altogether. The film opens with one of those five-second YouTube trailer teasers By Sarah • Jul 07, 2021 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylour Paige and Riley Keough in Zola Back in 2015, Twitter lit up with a thread—the first official “thread”—from user @_zolarmoon. In it, A’Ziah “Zola” King recounted a fateful trip to Florida with a white friend, her sappy boyfriend, and her friend’s pimp. It was a wild, classically Floridian tale, though it began By Sarah • Jul 07, 2021 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews F9: This might as well happen In 2001, The Fast and the Furious was about street racing and selling stolen DVD players. It was Point Break with cars. It was simple, and dumb, and kind of fun in the way early 2000s films are, caught between the overblown action of the post-Matrix world and the nascent By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tony Leung is Shang-Chi’s bad dad A new trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here, this one showing off even more Tony Leung—inject that man’s presence into my veins, please—and Michelle Yeoh, but less Awkwafina. The first trailer was the introduction to the style of Shang-Chi, and this By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 11:22 am
Conan O`Brien Farewell Conan, see you again soon Tonight marks the final episode of Conan on TBS. It’s not just the end of Conan O’Brien’s eleven year run as a late-night host on that network, it’s the end of his 28 year reign over late night comedy. As of the concluding of this show, By Sarah • Jun 24, 2021 03:40 pm
TV Updates Loki is not wasting time Spoilers Loki got off to a strong start, and this show has wasted NO time in its next two episodes. We’re already halfway through, which feels like not enough and just right. Not enough, because Loki is very good, the best of these Marvel shows so far and pretty By Sarah • Jun 24, 2021 11:32 am
TV Updates Are we really more body positive now than we were then? Warning for discussion of disordered eating/self-harm There are myriad reasons Physical is a tough watch, but the thing I keep coming back to the most is the relationship between Sheila (Rose Byrne) and Greta (Dierdre Friel). Their dynamic reminds me of a friendship in my past. From the outside, By Sarah • Jun 23, 2021 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba shows up in The Suicide Squad I neither loved nor hated the first trailer for The Suicide Squad, DC’s mulligan on their villain team-up movie, but the second trailer is definitely winning me over. I wasn’t super sold on Idris Elba in that first trailer, but this new trailer focuses on his character, Bloodsport, By Sarah • Jun 23, 2021 01:55 pm
TV Updates Rose Byrne in Physical Warning for discussion of eating disorders/bulimia and self-harm Physical, the new Apple TV+ series starring Rose Byrne as an aerobics guru, is about as anti-nostalgic as a period piece can be (as someone born in the 1980s, it crushes my soul that this now qualifies as “period piece”). It’ By Sarah • Jun 22, 2021 11:56 am
TV Updates Ted Lasso returns with his evil twin, Led Tasso I don’t know about you, but I really needed to see Ted Lasso burst into a room and shout, “The Ted Lasso welcome wagon has arrived!” this morning. Over the weekend, I completed a huge assignment, then promptly did…something…to my computer that wrecked the drive on which By Sarah • Jun 21, 2021 12:45 pm
TV Updates Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd enter dysfunctional therapy Podcast platform Wondery has cornered the market on long-form, true crime documentary podcasts that then become splashy TV series. First it was Dirty John, next it’s Dr. Death, and in November comes perhaps the splashiest of them all based purely on star power: The Shrink Next Door. Anchorman chums By Sarah • Jun 18, 2021 12:25 pm
TV Updates Jon Bernthal: Romantic lead at last, sort of Jon Bernthal has a very intense and intimidating screen presence. He broke out as loose-cannon Shane on The Walking Dead, is best known for playing the Punisher in the Netflix-Marvel shows—and maybe again in the MCU proper, there is a persistent rumor they’d like to keep Bernthal around— By Sarah • Jun 16, 2021 12:25 pm
