Movie Reviews and Previews Screaming nonsense in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard In 2017, I called The Hitman’s Bodyguard “super, super dumb”, “charmingly sh*tty”, and “brainless, dumb-fun escapism at its best”. Through commitment to a dumb premise and solid chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, The Hitman’s Bodyguard propelled itself to blockbuster status, an increasingly rare achievement By Sarah • Jun 15, 2021 12:57 pm
Books Emilia Clarke wrote a menstrual comic One thing that blockbuster success affords artists is the opportunity to get REAL WEIRD without fear of economic reprisal. Some people use this to create fantastic art without worrying about commercial concerns (Prince, David Bowie, Robert Pattinson), while some people become paralyzed by the thing that made them rich and By Sarah • Jun 14, 2021 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey on the beach Cast your minds back a couple of years and recall that Halle Bailey, of Chloe x Halle, was cast to play Ariel in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. The film was delayed by the pandemic, having just begun rehearsals in London in early 2020 when everyone got sent By Sarah • Jun 14, 2021 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain: Fake jaw for Tammy Faye Jessica Chastain somehow has no Oscars. Like Amy Adams, it feels like she should have at least one by now. But she has none. So, she is doing what anyone determined to win a goddamn Oscar does: donning prosthetics and playing a controversial historical figure. Chastain stars with Andrew Garfield By Sarah • Jun 10, 2021 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Soderbergh assembles a new team When Steven Soderbergh puts together a team, he does not hold back. Ocean’s 11 features one of the great Cool Guy ensembles of the 21st century, including one of Hollywood’s great Cool Girls, Julia Roberts. And while everyone remembers the heat-seeking chemistry of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez By Sarah • Jun 09, 2021 12:08 pm
TV Updates Loki bursts out of the gate, ready to play Spoilers With the debut of Loki, Marvel is now three series deep into their new Disney+ series slate, and a shared complaint between the first two series, WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, is that they both got off to a slow start. Well, not so Loki. Compared By Sarah • Jun 09, 2021 10:25 am
Equality Issues Ellie Kemper, cotillions, and romanticizing the antebellum South Last week, the internet lit up when a tweet about Ellie Kemper, alum of The Office, Bridesmaids, and best known as Kimmy Schmidt, told everyone about the time she was crowned the Queen of Love and Beauty at the Veiled Prophet Ball, held by the Veiled Prophet Organization, in St. By Sarah • Jun 08, 2021 11:00 am
Maple Leaf Shamier Anderson will square off with John Wick It seems incredible to me that we already have three John Wick movies. It feels like the first one just came out. It’s been seven years, though, since John Wick dropped (and six years since everyone discovered it on demand). Maybe it’s the Keanu time warp—we see By Sarah • Jun 07, 2021 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Turns out, Tom Cruise can’t stop COVID Today in You Will Never Believe This news, it turns out that Tom Cruise, noted defender against coronavirus, cannot actually stop viral transmission with his bare hands. No! He cannot! Not even if he runs directly at it! This shocking and upsetting news comes to us as Mission: Impossible 7, By Sarah • Jun 04, 2021 11:06 am
Anthony Mackie New Cap On Campus As Lainey mentioned previously, the Avengers Campus at Disneyland opened last night. Even still halfway stuck in a pandemic, Marvel manages to put on a show, and this is an interesting moment for them because not only is Kevin Feige now appearing alongside Disney’s finally fully-fledged new CEO, Bob By Sarah • Jun 03, 2021 12:10 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad rolls to a close Spoilers Be advised that episodes 9 and 10 contain disturbing images, including massacre violence, suicide, and infanticide. The final episodes of The Underground Railroad are the most harrowing of the series as Cora (Thuso Mbedu) once again tries to establish a life outside slavery. Royal (William Jackson Harper), who freed By Sarah • May 28, 2021 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place Part II Emily Blunt reunites with her husband, John Krasinski, for a sequel to their 2018 genre hit A Quiet Place. Picking up where the first film left off, A Quiet Place Part II finds post-apocalyptic mother Evelyn Abbott (Blunt) traipsing through a silenced world to avoid alien attack. Now, though, she By Sarah • May 28, 2021 01:05 pm
TV Updates Mean Rose Byrne is real! When we first glimpsed the upcoming Apple TV+ series Physical, I wondered if the acidic, mean version of Rose Byrne’s character was somehow a product of her imagination, a bored, frustrated housewife projecting herself into the glamorous world of celebrity aerobics. No! Apparently not! A full trailer for Physical By Sarah • May 28, 2021 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone and Emma Thompson in Cruella Cruella opens with a precociously malicious child named Estella (Tipper Seifert-Cleveland), born with distinctive two-tone hair and a mean streak a mile wide, repeatedly getting in trouble at school. Her mother, Catherine (Emily Beecham), pleads with Estella to be nice, to get along, to not be “Cruella”, the nickname bestowed By Sarah • May 27, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Worst Chris in the dumbest movie A month ago, we saw a teaser for Chris Pratt’s new movie, The Tomorrow War, and Lainey got hung up on whether or not the music sounds like “O Canada”. (She also threw in a barb that Americans wouldn’t recognize it because we don’t know “O Canada” By Sarah • May 27, 2021 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Edgar Wright does horror Edgar Wright’s latest film, Last Night in Soho, is yet another pandemic delay that will finally be released later this year (in October, to be exact). The first trailer dropped yesterday, and yes, I am very into it. Soho is Wright’s take on the horror genre—people are By Sarah • May 26, 2021 03:32 pm
