TV Updates Only Murders in the Building is not cozy Only Murders in the Building, the true crime parody cum actual murder mystery show co-created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman, opens with a Charles-Haden Savage (Martin) voiceover about living in the city. “As any true crime aficionado will tell you,” he says, “it’s the boondocks you By Sarah • Sep 10, 2021 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Math-Man Returns While we wait for Bennifer’s big premiere in Venice, let’s kill time with some non-Bennifer related Ben Affleck news… One of my favorite dumb-fun movies in recent memory is The Accountant, aka Math-Man Begins, in which Ben Affleck plays a neurodiverse CPA with a secret By Sarah • Sep 10, 2021 10:47 am
TV Updates Phoebe Waller-Bridge dumps Mr. Smith Solo co-stars and founding members of a mutual admiration society Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover were supposed to reunite for a television remake of Mr. & Mrs. Smith which is, of course, a gossip hall of fame film as it brought us Brangelina. Glover had the idea of By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Plugged back into The Matrix Despite a summer box office surge—it’s still lower than usual, but people ARE going back to the movies—Warner Brothers is keeping with their “everything on HBO Max, too” plan, even for their biggest titles of the year, including The Matrix Resurrections. With the first trailer just released By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t Look Up and Jennifer Lawrence’s big news The never-ending deluge of trailers continues with Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, another Netflix movie we won’t remember in six months. This is the fancier version of Moonfall, about a comet headed for Earth and, I guess, the political maneuvering that goes on around an end- By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Moonfall: The dumbest movie of 2022 When Moonfall was first announced, I hoped that the movie about the moon crashing into Earth would be the dumbest movie of 2021. Thanks to COVID delays, though, it won’t be coming out until 2022, so now I hope it’s the dumbest movie of 2022. The teaser dropped By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will you remember Dwayne Johnson + Ryan Reynolds? Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds have, respectively, had a relatively good 2021 thanks to the pandemic success of their films Jungle Cruise and Free Guy. Now, they’re closing out their year together, in a new Netflix action comedy, Red Notice, also starring Gal Gadot (who has kept a low By Sarah • Sep 08, 2021 01:18 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession The Munn Mulaney Maybe Baby: confirmed Yesterday, I wrote about photos from the weekend of an obviously pregnant Olivia Munn. Then, last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, John Mulaney appeared and confirmed it: he’s having a child with Olivia Munn. Not only that, he timelined his breakup with Anna Marie Tendler amidst relapses By Sarah • Sep 08, 2021 09:16 am
Relationship Assumption The Mulaney Munn maybe baby I hate bump watch. I am uninterested in my womb, your womb, anyone’s womb. It’s not my business unless you make it my business by telling me about it directly, and even then, I am not inherently fascinated by babies and pregnancies. That said, there is a point By Sarah • Sep 07, 2021 02:43 pm
Business of Hollywood More Disney drama Do you know how rare it is to have two posts in one day about Disney’s business? I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve written about Disney’s business (other than box office, that is) in the last ten-plus years, but here we By Sarah • Sep 07, 2021 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu hit a grand slam…and a back flip Despite the ongoing pandemic, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings posted a record-breaking opening weekend of $90 million for the four-day frame in the US. Even in normal times, this would be a Labor Day box office record, so it’s HUGE that Shang-Chi By Sarah • Sep 07, 2021 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu Liu and Tony Leung in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings may be Marvel’s first film centered on an East Asian hero, but it is also yet another origin story for a Marvel hero, though one that benefits from the ten or so origin stories that came before it. In almost By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paramount shoves off (again) In yet another ill omen for the remainder of 2021, Paramount has moved their remaining movies, including Mission: Impossible 7 and Top Gun: Maverick, to 2022. We’ve been here before, and has always been the case with Paramount, they simply will not risk Tom Cruise’s ire by attempting By Sarah • Sep 02, 2021 09:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond, for real this time Way back when this interminable nightmare began, No Time To Die was the film industry bellwether, being the first major movie to push back its release date due to coronavirus. Now, though Team Bond is sticking with their current release plan, dropping a final trailer ahead of the film’s By Sarah • Sep 01, 2021 12:14 pm
TV Updates Reservation Dogs: An Indigenous Hang-out Sitcom I have dithered over this review for a while, partly because I am just plain enjoying Reservation Dogs, and sometimes when you enjoy something you don’t want to commodify it. But also partly because with each new episode I fall further down the rabbit hole of struggling to express By Sarah • Aug 31, 2021 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris in Candyman Candyman opened at #1 at the US box office over the weekend, making Nia DaCosta the first Black female director to open a #1 film in North America. That is simultaneously a great accomplishment for her, and sad/embarrassing for the industry at large that it took until 2021 for By Sarah • Aug 30, 2021 01:47 pm
