Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield’s Nic Cage phase Andrew Garfield’s last movie was 2018’s Under the Silver Lake, a deliberately confounding film that some people love and some people hate. His new movie is Mainstream, a film that appears, on the surface, aimed at the YouTube generation of creators and performers and in it, Garfield is By Sarah • Apr 07, 2021 12:14 pm
TV Updates The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is struggling We are now halfway through The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and man can you feel the gears grinding on this one. WandaVision took a second to get going, but once it got there, it took off and hit some really interesting and heady highs in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. By Sarah • Apr 06, 2021 03:30 pm
TV Updates Loki is here to fix time A new trailer for Loki, the next-in-line series from Marvel on Disney+, dropped this morning and YES, THIS IS EXTREMELY MY SH-T. I mostly liked WandaVision, and am so-so on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but Loki is the Marvel show I am most interested in and excited for. By Sarah • Apr 05, 2021 12:17 pm
TV Updates The Duke is Done Big Bridgerton news dropped on Friday: Regé-Jean Page, the breakout star of season one, will not return for season two. The duke is done. Many people are heartbroken, even though I previously mentioned that Simon and Daphne are not main players in the second book, which features Anthony as the By Sarah • Apr 05, 2021 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Godzilla vs. Kong is the dumb escape Spoilers Two years ago I wrote about Godzilla: King of the Monsters and said that I wasn’t sure there is a way to make Godzilla work as a Hollywood (re)invention. Godzilla is not our cultural myth, and America’s unwillingness to face the moral reckoning of the atomic By Sarah • Apr 01, 2021 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Knives Out is Netflix’s latest blockbuster In 2019 Knives Out was not just one of the best films of the year, but also an original idea that turned into a legitimate blockbuster, earning over $311 million against a $40 million budget. Those kinds of mid-budget success stories almost don’t happen anymore, and sequel talk began By Sarah • Apr 01, 2021 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zola: When Twitter Was Fun Last year at Sundance—the last major film festival before COVID shut everything down for one (1) solid year—Zola was the big divisive hit of the fest. Zola is adapted from that wild Twitter thread about how “me and this bitch here fell out”, which is basically the last By Sarah • Mar 31, 2021 02:05 pm
TV Updates Amanda Seyfried’s Oscar bump Amanda Seyfried scored her first Oscar nomination this year for Mank (she is the least objectionable part of that film, and gives a legit great performance amidst the wankery), and she is not wasting time cashing in that Oscar bump for buzzy new projects. Seyfried has been tapped to take By Sarah • Mar 30, 2021 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Re-meet The Suicide Squad The first trailer for The Suicide Squad the sort-of sequel, mostly reboot of Suicide Squad, is here in all its red-band glory to try this whole villain team-up thing all over again. Some of the characters featured in David Ayer’s dismal movie are back, such as Margot Robbie as By Sarah • Mar 29, 2021 12:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews An Extremely Scientific Economic Breakdown of the MCU The first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier features one of the best single scenes Marvel has ever put to film as Sam Wilson tries to get a loan to save his family business and home and is denied. Even though he is an Avenger, and famous enough By Sarah • Mar 26, 2021 10:24 am
TV Updates Marvel is already spinning off Hawkeye Hawkeye, the Marvel series featuring nobody’s favorite Avenger, is due on Disney+ sometime later this year (it’s filming now). The show must already be generating some good vibes at Marvel HQ, though, because a spin-off featuring Echo is already in development. Echo, real name Maya Lopez, is played By Sarah • Mar 24, 2021 02:45 pm
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy and the New Celebrity 2020 was such a weird f-cking year for pop culture, but I feel like we can all agree Anya Taylor-Joy was one of the breakout stars of the year, yes? She began the year with Autumn de Wilde’s sexy, stylish adaptation, Emma., the last movie many people saw in By Sarah • Mar 24, 2021 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow moves (for the last time?) A year ago, we started the blockbuster shuffle when No Time to Die vacated April 2020 due to the then-burgeoning pandemic. Now, one year on, we have potentially, probably, our last step in the blockbuster shuffle. Disney has pushed a group of seven films out of spring/early summer, including By Sarah • Mar 24, 2021 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emerald Fennell goes to DC It feels like a draft, doesn’t it? A filmmaker has an indie breakout hit, and then they get drafted by one of three teams: Marvel, DC, or Lucasfilm. The latest draftee is Emerald Fennell, fresh off her triple Oscar-nomination and Writers’ Guild Awards win for Promising Young Woman. She By Sarah • Mar 23, 2021 03:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews WarnerMedia CEO addresses fan toxicity As I have mentioned many times over the years, writing about DC Films and the Snyder Cut can be loaded, because it comes attached to a very toxic fandom. There were plenty of instances over the years where I passed on writing about some new wrinkle in the Snyder drama By Sarah • Mar 23, 2021 10:43 am
TV Updates The Falcon and the Winter Soldier set up a broken world The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the second Marvel show to come to Disney+ with the first episode, “New World Order”, introducing us to a more mundane aspect of the world after the Avengers brought everyone back from the blip. Set a few months down the line from the By Sarah • Mar 22, 2021 12:16 pm
