Movie Reviews and Previews The Green Knight is back on! Last year, we had barely been given the promise of The Green Knight, David Lowery’s trippy take on the Arthurian tale, when COVID crashed the world. The Green Knight was one of many films delayed in 2020, but it’s the one I was most hoping would just show By Sarah • May 11, 2021 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Venom tries again Venom: Let There Be Carnage was one of the many films delayed by the pandemic last year, but it will finally be coming out this year—currently scheduled for September 24—and to that end, we have a trailer to ogle. It’s fine! Venom was an accidental hit in By Sarah • May 10, 2021 12:40 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Lily and Sebastian and Pam & Tommy On Friday we were given a gift, a great gift, the gift of Lily James and Sebastian Stan done up in costume as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. The two are starring in Hulu’s upcoming limited series Pam & Tommy, which focuses on their whirlwind romance made in 1990s By Sarah • May 10, 2021 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hannah John-Kamen is Red Sonja One of the last remaining long-gestating comic book adaptations is Red Sonja, the sword-and-sorcery comic about the woman in the metal bikini with a big sword. The film remake—Brigitte Nielsen previously played Sonja in a 1985 film that is truly terrible—has been stewing for a while. The last By Sarah • May 06, 2021 09:59 am
TV Updates Ewan McGregor is Halston for the world Last week we got a cover profile of Ewan McGregor in advance of his new Netflix series Halston, about the 1970s fashion designer-icon. Now we have a trailer to give us a taste of McGregor as Halston. Look, he seems fantastic. He’s a great actor, the quality of the By Sarah • May 04, 2021 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Eternals Marvel dropped a super masturbatory Phase 4 teaser this morning, and while it is hilariously self-important, it does include some new upcoming titles, a Fantastic Four promise, and our first look at newly minted Oscar Best Director and Best Picture winner Chloe Zhao’s Eternals. First, let’s talk about By Sarah • May 03, 2021 11:53 am
Top Reads Bridgerton at the Races Filming of season two of Bridgerton is underway which means we have our first look at the family in the season of 1814 (minus Regé-Jean Page as Simon, who will be, I don’t know, busy on his estate all year or something). Set photos reveal the Bridgertons at a By Sarah • May 03, 2021 10:34 am
TV Updates Sharon Carter’s new job Spoilers One of the joys of WandaVision was how that show took underused side characters like Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo and made them more fulsome characters in the MCU. Sure, they’re still exposition machines, but WandaVision gave them a chance to demonstrate expertise and contribute beyond just silly By Sarah • Apr 30, 2021 01:25 pm
Equality Issues Ewan McGregor avoids the issue Ewan McGregor covers The Hollywood Reporter to promote his upcoming television projects, Obi-Wan and Halston. Of course, you have to talk about Obi-wan, as McGregor prepares to reprise the role over 20 years after his debut in The Phantom Menace. I’m on board! I was only ever interested in By Sarah • Apr 29, 2021 09:50 am
TV Updates Rose Byrne gets Physical Rose Byrne is a deeply underappreciated actor, and few things make me happier than seeing a deeply underappreciated actor get a great leading role, Physical is right up my alley. It’s a new series coming to Apple TV+ this June starring Byrne as a 1980s housewife who discovers aerobics By Sarah • Apr 28, 2021 10:26 am
TV Updates The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is Marvel at its most frustrating Spoilers The Falcon and the Winter Soldier wrapped up last Friday, concluding an incredibly frustrating story that never quite brought all of its ideas home. WandaVision was not perfect, but it succeeded in turning a side character into a real protagonist with interesting dramatic themes and a complicated narrative, and By Sarah • Apr 27, 2021 03:01 pm
TV Updates Master of None is back with a surprise makeover Four years after its second season, Master of None is back with a new season and a makeover. Instead of starring Aziz Ansari in a semi-autobiographical tale, Master of None will now drop five new episodes centered on Denise, Lena Waithe’s character, and her partner, Alicia (Naomi Ackie from By Sarah • Apr 27, 2021 12:53 pm
Oscars 2021 Emerald Fennell brings “shady pottery teacher” vibes to the Oscars Emerald Fennell won her first Oscar last night, taking Best Original Screenplay for Promising Young Woman, one of the most deserved wins of the night. Seriously, that script is BONKERS good. It’s three movies at once and re-watching peels it back so you can see each movie playing out By Sarah • Apr 26, 2021 08:08 am
Oscars 2021 Oscars Scorecard: It’s something! This year, I attempted to guess every winner of the “Oddscars”—or as they shall henceforth be known, the “total chaos Oscars”—and I did pretty okay. I got 15 categories out of 23 right, which Professor Calculator tells me is 65% correct. Of the 8 misses, 7 were from By Sarah • Apr 26, 2021 06:07 am
BFFs Ranking the super buddies of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier The finale of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier drops today, which means we’re finally going to find out whether or not Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes will become super best friends or if they’ll keep their friend-dating casual. (FYI people have been spoiling the finale all over By Sarah • Apr 23, 2021 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the “Oddscars” Last month, I did my first full slate of Oscar nomination predictions and I didn’t do too bad, nailing 77 out of 105 predictions (73% is good enough, as I used to tell my math teachers). But now I am here to predict the WINNERS, which is actually easier, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2021 12:48 pm
