Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Eternals are here A few weeks after a Phase 4 teaser gave us our first glimpse of Chloe Zhao’s Eternals, a teaser trailer has arrived showing us the Eternals in action throughout human history. The sweeping opening shot of a pre-historic cliff is lovely, the crashing waves contrasted with the simplicity of By Sarah • May 25, 2021 01:02 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad reaches its nadir but offers (some) hope Spoilers for episodes 4-7 of The Underground Railroad After the odyssey of the first three episodes, The Underground Railroad shifts into a contemplative mood for its middle episodes. Episode four, “The Great Spirit” (once again, all episodes are directed by Barry Jenkins, and this episode is written by Adrienne Rush) By Sarah • May 21, 2021 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Hudson ALSO has her Knives Out The Knives Out 2 casting director is like Oprah handing out cars—you get a Knives Out! And you get a Knives Out! And YOU get a Knives Out!!! The cast is already stuffed with incredible people, and the latest inclusions include Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kate Hudson, who co-starred By Sarah • May 21, 2021 10:03 am
TV Updates Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are nosy neighbors Yesterday, a teaser was released for Only Murders in the Building, a ten-episode series coming to Hulu (and Star, internationally) on August 31. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez play nosy neighbors who get caught up in a murder mystery in their apartment building. Short’s character is also, By Sarah • May 19, 2021 03:29 pm
Business of Hollywood Merger Mania Part II: Amazon and MGM On the heels of the news that AT&T is dumping WarnerMedia on Discovery comes the news that Amazon is in talks to buy MGM (you can read an un-paywalled version of the story here). It was always inevitable that Amazon would buy out a studio—as it is By Sarah • May 19, 2021 12:17 pm
Business of Hollywood Merger Mania Part I: WarnerMedia & Discovery Over the weekend, word broke that AT&T, just three years after acquiring Time Warner—now called WarnerMedia—in a blockbuster merger, would dump their still-new entertainment sector and pair it with Discovery to make a separate operation as yet to be named. The news sent a shockwave through By Sarah • May 19, 2021 11:42 am
Quiveration Henry Golding is a hot ninja Also Sunday night during the MTV Movie and TV Awards, Paramount dropped a trailer for Snake Eyes, a GI Joe spin-off starring Henry Golding as a ninja assassin. I have zero nostalgia for or attachment to GI Joe, so I do not know or care if this looks true to By Sarah • May 18, 2021 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Boyega Attack the Block sequel One of the great cult sci-fi flicks of the 2010s is Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, in which aliens invade a South London council estate and a group of local kids must defend their home. If you have not seen it, fix your life and get right with the By Sarah • May 18, 2021 12:56 pm
TV Updates Loki meets Mobius Sunday night, Marvel and Disney+ did great at the MTV Movie & TV Awards. Their first forays into streaming television won big, and an OG6 Avenger was given the Generation Award, and during the broadcast they dropped a clip from Loki, their next series due in just under a month. By Sarah • May 18, 2021 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie in Those Who Wish Me Dead Angelina Jolie returns to her action roots—where is that Salt sequel?!—in Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead, which is spare, 90s-style thriller with a wildfire hook. Adapted from Michael Koryta’s book of the same name by Sheridan, Koryta, and Charles Leavitt, Jolie stars as Hannah, By Sarah • May 17, 2021 03:31 pm
TV Updates Get to know Anne Boleyn with Jodie Turner-Smith On Friday, Jodie Turner-Smith dropped a teaser for Anne Boleyn on her Instagram. The lighting continues to be bad, but besides that, the teaser shows us brief hits of Anne Boleyn as the world starts to close in around her, with no sons delivered to Henry VIII and a venomous By Sarah • May 17, 2021 12:54 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton gets its first spin-off I say “first” because the Bridgerton book universe includes prequels, so there was always a high potential for spin-offs with Bridgerton. The first spin-off, though, will not be based on a Julia Quinn book but is inspired by Queen Charlotte, played in the series by Golda Rosheuvel. Shonda Rhimes is By Sarah • May 17, 2021 10:00 am
TV Updates The Underground Railroad ep 1-3 Spoilers for episodes 1-3 of The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, arrives on Amazon Prime today, with all ten episodes available to stream at once. This is completely the wrong way to absorb it. The Underground By Sarah • May 14, 2021 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kathryn Hahn also has her Knives Out On the heels of Janelle Monae joining the cast of Knives Out 2, Kathryn Hahn has also joined the sequel cast. Hahn is officially ascending to her final form, going from “everyone’s secret fave” to “widely acknowledged superstar”. The entire MCU is worth it just to get Kathryn Hahn By Sarah • May 14, 2021 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Janelle Monae has her Knives Out Knives Out, one of the most notable non-franchise blockbusters to hit theaters in the last few years, is now a franchise that will play on Netflix. The sequel is set to film later this summer in Greece—after the production design of a New England estate in the first movie, By Sarah • May 13, 2021 12:12 pm
Business of Hollywood The Golden Globes are cancelled We are watching the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes implode in real time, and it’s kind of amazing. If you thought the awards industrial complex was completely entrenched, too big to fail, et cetera, well, the last week has really been something. To recap, before the By Sarah • May 11, 2021 02:21 pm
