TV Updates Queen Jodie (in the dark) As we learned last year, Jodie Turner-Smith is playing Anne Boleyn in a new prestige drama series about the doomed queen’s downfall. We’ve seen her on set in the headpieces, but now we have our first official still of JTS as Anne and, well, it’s not great. By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:53 am
Dumbass More like Cara DONE Over the last decade, Gina Carano successfully segued from a career as an MMA fighter to a career as an actor, finding mainstream success in action movies before hitting the jackpot by landing a role in The Mandalorian, as ex-Rebel soldier Cara Dune. Carano had it made. She was on By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robin Wright’s Land Robin Wright makes her feature directorial debut with Land, a film centered on Edee (Wright), a woman in obvious pain. She begins the film in therapy and very quickly exits modern life in Chicago for a remote one-room cabin in Wyoming on the border of the Shoshone National Forest. Her By Sarah • Feb 10, 2021 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah One of the great films of the 21st century is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a film that unpicks a major piece of American folklore by focusing on the grubworm who betrayed a beloved but largely fictionalized figure in Americana. Shaka King’s Judas and By Sarah • Feb 10, 2021 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Minari: Portrait of an American Family Lee Isaac Chung’s delicate family drama, Minari, follows a Korean-American family—immigrant parents, American-born children—as they attempt to find their slice of the American dream on a farm in rural Arkansas. Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun) dreams of having a “garden” of his own and moves his family to By Sarah • Feb 09, 2021 03:49 pm
TV Updates WandaVision gets to the point Spoilers through episode 5 of WandaVision In my review of the first two episodes of WandaVision, I said the show got off to a slow start and a lot of people argued with me (which happens whenever you say anything less than positive about Marvel online). Listen, I, too, enjoy By Sarah • Feb 09, 2021 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews F9: The Return of Han F9 first began advertising in January 2020 for what was supposed to be a May 2020 release date, only to get pushed back multiple times due to the pandemic. Currently, it is slated to come out on May 28, but the Super Bowl TV spot ends with “In theaters soon” By Sarah • Feb 08, 2021 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zamunda knows about Wakanda I was expecting WAY more streaming service advertisements during the Super Bowl. We’re all still stuck at home and movies aren’t coming out any time soon, so I thought the streamers would go all-in on advertising their wares for post-game viewing (or mid-game viewing if you gave up By Sarah • Feb 08, 2021 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Falcon and the Winter Soldier are in couples’ therapy The first teaser we saw for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the one-time kick-off event for the MCU on Disney+, came one year ago during the 2020 Super Bowl. Then COVID-19 hit, and FWS was unable to complete production before the March shutdown of all things. FWS got pushed By Sarah • Feb 08, 2021 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews John David Washington and Zendaya in Malcom & Marie The night of his film’s premiere, an up-and-coming filmmaker returns home with his girlfriend, and the two proceed to argue and eat mac’n’cheese for two hours. This is the entire plot of Malcolm & Marie, a film that would be unwatchable were it not for its leads, By Sarah • Feb 05, 2021 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The SAG Awards are an improvement As is now an almost annual tradition, the Golden Globe nominations yesterday outraged pretty much everyone. Today, on the film side, at least, the SAG Awards offer an improvement over the Globes. The nominees were just announced and though there is still some nuttiness, I do not want to throw By Sarah • Feb 04, 2021 01:43 pm
Douchebags Everything is FINE with Adam Driver Yesterday, we went over a story from a Portuguese actress named Lidia Franco about alleged “bad behavior” from Adam Driver on the set of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in 2017. Franco was around 73 at the time. Franco alleged that Driver “assaulted” her with a chair. The interview By Sarah • Feb 04, 2021 09:34 am
TV Updates The Nevers is not the next Game of Thrones HBO’s quest to replicate the success of Game of Thrones continues, as Westworld never reached the same highs—but hit many of the same lows—and His Dark Materials never really caught on (they insist that people watch it, but do they? No one talks about it). Next up By Sarah • Feb 03, 2021 04:20 pm
Award Season Campaigning Golden Globes: Three women more than before One bright spot in the Golden Globes film nominations is that for the first time, THREE women have been nominated for Best Director. Regina King (One Night in Miami), Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), and Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) all received directing nods. Previously, only five women have ever been nominated By Sarah • Feb 03, 2021 01:39 pm
Equality Issues The somehow still outrageous Golden Globe nominations, film If ever there was a year for the Golden Globes to be really bold and fresh, it is now, after a bizarre year in film in 2020. However, the nominations are, as per usual, outrageous and a little outraging, just as they are on television side with some deserving inclusions By Sarah • Feb 03, 2021 11:50 am
Top Reads Adam Driver’s Bad Gossip To date, Adam Driver has been an unexceptional celebrity. Despite starring in one of the world’s biggest franchises last decade, he is capable of disappearing between projects. He might walk out on the occasional interview, but other than that, if we’re talking about Driver, it’s usually in By Sarah • Feb 03, 2021 10:42 am
