Movie Reviews and Previews We could have Michael B. Jordan as Superman On Friday, news broke that Warner Brothers is setting up a new Superman film to be produced by JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot team and written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The report from Shadow & Act notes that there is no director and a search for a new Superman has By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 11:54 am
Business of Hollywood You had me at “Clooney-Roberts rom-com” Have you re-watched Ocean’s 11 recently? It TOTALLY holds up. Ocean’s 12 holds up, too. As far as I am concerned, there are only three Ocean’s movies, 8, 11, and 12, and I have re-watched them all (they were on Netflix, now they’re on HBO Max) By Sarah • Mar 02, 2021 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2020 This year’s list is a little late in coming because we decided to honor the extended release schedule of the 2020 Oscars, and not follow a strict calendar year. Also, the Golden Globes are happening on Sunday. 2020 was an overall weird but good year in film, with standout By Sarah • Feb 25, 2021 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paramount tempts Tom Cruise’s wrath This week is the Television Critics’ Association winter press tour, when television networks set up in front of the press and lay out their programming schedules for the upcoming season. Yesterday, ViacomCBS held their press confab and made some announcements regarding their new streaming service, Paramount+. They’re rebranding the By Sarah • Feb 25, 2021 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s marketing schtick Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is due in theaters in December of this year, for whatever “theaters”, “December”, and “this year” means anymore. This week, the main cast of Tom Holland, Jacob Batalon, and Zendaya have been teasing the title reveal on their Instas, each proffering a supposed title for the By Sarah • Feb 25, 2021 10:05 am
TV Updates WandaVision’s “shoe problem” Spoilers As we head into the final two episodes of WandaVision, it has become exceedingly clear that while this is a pretty great show, it is not working for some people. Sure, it got off to a slow start, but at this point, seven episodes in, we’ve advanced beyond By Sarah • Feb 24, 2021 11:28 am
TV Updates Gillian Anderson’s Great Lady phase Showtime is producing an anthology series called The First Lady, which is revisiting American history through the eyes of the first women of the White House. Viola Davis is on board to play Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer has signed up to play Betty Ford. The latest cast addition is By Sarah • Feb 23, 2021 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sam Heughan and The OTHER Red Notice One of the big movies we’re guaranteed to see this year, because it’s coming to Netflix which doesn’t care about theaters, is Red Notice starring Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Dwayne Johnson. This morning, site manager Emily emailed me a trailer for a movie called “Red Notice” By Sarah • Feb 22, 2021 01:42 pm
TV Updates Annie Murphy tells Kevin he can f**k himself Coming off her Emmy-winning and final season of Schitt’s Creek, Annie Murphy has already moved on to her next series, a genre-busting dramedy called Kevin Can F**k Himself. The show, created by Valerie Armstrong (a Lodge 49 alum), follows Allison, a typical sitcom wife who is the butt By Sarah • Feb 22, 2021 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges in French Exit French Exit stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a disaffected, broke widow who flees to Paris after losing it all in New York. This is the best role and performance Pfeiffer has had in years, and French Exit SHOULD be a genuine pleasure to watch just to see Pfeiffer do her thing, By Sarah • Feb 18, 2021 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regé -Jean Page wastes no time The undisputed breakout of Bridgerton season one is Regé-Jean Page, the duke himself. With all the momentum of being the breakout star of Netflix’s biggest original show to date, Page is wasting no time. He has booked his first major role post-Bridgerton and will co-star with Chris Pine in By Sarah • Feb 17, 2021 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Punk Rock Cruella The first trailer for Cruella, Disney’s villain origin story for Cruella De Vil, has arrived and it is fine. I mean, it LOOKS great. Can’t argue with Emma Stone and Emma Thompson vamping it up in fabulous Jenny Beavan costumes in 1970s London. I like that the basic By Sarah • Feb 17, 2021 11:52 am
TV Updates BRIDGERTON FOUND ITS KATE Today in Very Important Bridgerton News, the woman who is too good for Anthony Bridgerton has been cast. Sex Education’s Simone Ashley will star as Kate Sharma in season two. Kate! Is here! And she will NOT be taking ANY of Anthony’s bullsh-t, of which there is a By Sarah • Feb 16, 2021 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is an instant comedy classic One unexpected facet of the COVID-year awards season is that because so many films vacated 2020 eligibility, we’re left with a crop of almost uniformly sad ass dramas, with no big studio crowd-pleasers to alleviate the field. It’s not that the films are bad—many of them are By Sarah • Feb 15, 2021 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Snyder Cut lives in a SOCIETY The official trailer for Zack Snyder’s Justice League—the official title of the “Snyder Cut”—arrived yesterday and it is largely the same trailer we saw for the Justice League three years ago. This has been one of my central issues with the Snyder Cut all along: that it By Sarah • Feb 15, 2021 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone, take two One of the most memorable breakout performances of the last few years was Lily Gladstone in Kelly Reichardt’s 2016 film, Certain Women. She is quietly devastating in that film, and I have not forgotten her since. Gladstone is one of a handful of actors whose IMDB pages I check By Sarah • Feb 12, 2021 10:46 am
