TV Updates Ted Lasso returns One of the (few) joys of 2020 was Ted Lasso, the Apple TV+ series co-created by Jason Sudeikis and Scrubs’ creator Bill Lawrence. They took a jokey character Sudeikis did for a series of sports commercials and turned him into the heart and soul of one of the kindest shows By Sarah • Apr 21, 2021 02:09 pm
TV Updates Emilia Clarke is Marvel’s latest fabulous lady Marvel is keeping the fabulous lady train rolling by bringing the mother of dragons herself, Emilia Clarke, into the MCU. She is joining the upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion on the heels of Olivia Colman. Naturally, no one has any idea who she’s playing. I gotta be honest, I By Sarah • Apr 21, 2021 12:42 pm
TV Updates Marvel is hiring all the fabulous ladies They’ve been at it for a while, having previously featured Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki (who, recognizing her tall majesty, they fully painted gold) in their villain ranks, but this year alone we’ve seen Kathryn Hahn and Julia Louis-Dreyfus join the Marvel villain ranks, and now Olivia Colman By Sarah • Apr 20, 2021 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu has fists of fury as Shang-Chi The teaser trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here and it is a short, beautiful pastiche of homages to classic Asian cinema ranging from Bruce Lee to Keanu. This is our first glimpse of Simu Liu in action as Shang-Chi and I am an even By Sarah • Apr 19, 2021 01:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews An Ode to Hot Tig This week, Netflix released a trailer for Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, a heist movie set in the middle of a zombie apocalypse except the zombies are Mad Max extras. Army of the Dead originally co-starred comedian Chris D’Elia, but after he got accused of sexually harassing By Sarah • Apr 16, 2021 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Carey Mulligan joins Adam Sandler’s next movie Don’t worry, it’s not an ADAM SANDLER movie, it’s an Adam Sandler MOVIE. Carey Mulligan will play Sandler’s wife in The Spaceman, an adaptation of Jaroslav Kalfar’s novel directed by Johan Renck, the director of Chernobyl. So, no, Carey Mulligan is not co-starring in one By Sarah • Apr 16, 2021 11:05 am
TV Updates Ranking the hottest people on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Hello, it is I, Real Science Person Doing Real Science, here to tell you in highly scientific fashion who are the hottest people on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Tests were carried out in the strictest laboratory conditions, aided by my faithful lab assistant, Midnight Wine. This is a By Sarah • Apr 15, 2021 11:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews More Ryan Reynolds in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard The Hitman’s Bodyguard was one of 2017’s success stories: an original, Black Listed script that survived a last-minute genre change—from drama to action comedy—to become a breakout hit, amassing over $176 million against a $30 million budget, and it helped cement Ryan Reynolds’ as an action By Sarah • Apr 14, 2021 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews OF COURSE Tom Cruise wants a world tour Last Friday, Paramount shuffled their release dates again, including pushing Top Gun: Maverick from the patriotic and military-movie friendly July 4 weekend to November 19. Now, we are learning the reason for that move, or at least one of them, is that Tom Cruise wants to do a full world By Sarah • Apr 14, 2021 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua abandon Georgia So, obviously, Joe Biden becoming President of the United States did not fix every problem in the world. In fact, based on the events of the last few weeks, it is very much a case of “same song, different verse”. Following a historic election in Georgia that saw the red By Sarah • Apr 13, 2021 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Phoebe Waller-Bridge will try to save Indiana Jones More than anything, I love Indiana Jones. And more than any disappointing pop culture thing that has happened so far in the 2000s, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom the Crystal Skull broke me. Games of Thrones had a disappointing finale? I made my peace with it. New New Star Wars By Sarah • Apr 12, 2021 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paramount changes dates again, won’t risk Tom Cruise On Friday Paramount shuffled their release calendar (again), making continual adjustments to the schedule based on ever-evolving COVID situations around the world. Right now, it seems that by summer some places will be fairly well recovered and back to normal business while other places will remain at least partially shut By Sarah • Apr 12, 2021 11:16 am
TV Updates Alaqua Cox on set Filming for Hawkeye is under way in Georgia, bringing us our first clear shots of Alaqua Cox on set as Maya Lopez, aka Echo. (Interestingly, there was an industry-wide outcry in 2019 when the Georgia state legislature attempted to severely restrict reproductive rights, but in the wake of Georgia’s By Sarah • Apr 09, 2021 12:41 pm
TV Updates Queen Jodie walks Anne Boleyn, starring Jodie Turner-Smith, is expected to air on the UK’s Channel 5 later this year. Previously, we saw a still photo of JTS as the erstwhile queen, and now we have a shot of her in motion, walking down a hall: Your first look at our Queen By Sarah • Apr 09, 2021 11:57 am
Top Reads Power producer Scott Rudin is a toxic boss And “toxic” is putting it lightly. A new expose in The Hollywood Reporter goes HAM on Scott Rudin, the EGOT-winning power producer behind such films as Clueless, The Social Network, Doubt, Fences, the Addams Family duology, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, and he’s a frequent producer for By Sarah • Apr 08, 2021 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cruella is delicious eye candy A second trailer for Cruella has arrived, now that we know this movie is coming out, for sure, on May 28 (in theaters and on Disney+ for a surcharge). I am rooting for this movie, I hope it’s good, because the aesthetic is ENTIRELY my sh-t and I’m By Sarah • Apr 07, 2021 02:02 pm
