TV Updates Search Party and Facing Your Best-Worst Self SPOILERS When it began in 2016, Search Party was a social satire with a true-crime twist, as an aimless, self-absorbed Millennial made a nearly forgotten college acquaintance’s disappearance all about her. Dory Sief is the worst of all Millennial stereotypes: underemployed in Brooklyn, a bright kid who has not By Sarah • Feb 02, 2021 01:06 pm
TV Updates Ryan Coogler is bringing Wakanda to TV Yesterday, it was announced that Ryan Coogler’s production company, Proximity Media, has signed a five-year deal with Disney to produce shows for their television outlets, including Disney+. The deal also includes development “for Disney’s other outlets as well”, which could mean shows for Hulu, or maybe a docu-series By Sarah • Feb 02, 2021 12:06 pm
TV Updates Search Party’s crimes and punishments SPOILERS If you’re into dark comedy, Search Party remains hysterically funny, but season four dives into the possible karmic retribution Polly Danziger (Michaela Watkins) hinted at last season, which is genuinely upsetting psychological ground to cover. Immediately following their “not guilty” verdict in season three, Drew (John Reynolds) and By Sarah • Feb 01, 2021 04:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Asgardians of the Galaxy on set Thor: Love and Thunder—still low key mad this movie isn’t called Th4r—started filming in Australia last week. Taika Waititi kicked off the proceedings with a Welcome to Country ceremony with Gamay dancers from the Gadigal and Bidiagal Nation and Maori dancers from Te Aranganui. Waititi also did By Sarah • Feb 01, 2021 11:48 am
Jared Leto Denzel Washington and Rami Malek and no one else in The Little Things Denzel Washington is a great actor with old-school Movie Star charisma to spare. It takes a LOT to make Denzel unwatchable, but The Little Things, a crime drama from journeyman writer/director John Lee Hancock, does its damnedest to make Denzel boring and without charm. The Little Things is not By Sarah • Jan 29, 2021 11:28 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Crisis an Armie Hammer biopic? In the wake of his sexts and cannibal DMs, Armie Hammer has been largely silent. The one statement he issued was a rebuke that also covered his withdrawal from an upcoming project with Jennifer Lopez (Josh Duhamel is in talks to replace him). But some movies are already made starring By Sarah • Jan 28, 2021 03:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2021: 10 to Watch The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today. Last year, it was one of the few major gatherings—and the only big film festival—that managed to occur before everything shut down in March due to COVID. This year, the festival has gone remote. Beyond the inherent strangeness of a remote By Sarah • Jan 28, 2021 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch with no accent in a Dad Movie Well, no accent other than his own English accent, and whew, what a relief after the trailer for The Mauritanian. The trailer for The Courier dropped yesterday, a spy thriller in which Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Greville Wynne, a British engineer and businessman who was arrested for espionage by the By Sarah • Jan 28, 2021 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Raya and the Last Dragon’s fellowship of butt-kickery Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is one of the few big movies coming out in the next few months—it’s pretty much this and Godzilla vs Kong, kind of a “one for me, one for you” deal with parents and kids—and there is a new trailer By Sarah • Jan 27, 2021 01:26 pm
TV Updates Jodie Turner-Smith is an Elf The Witcher is one of the most popular original shows on Netflix (thanks to that audience metric that requires you only watch two minutes of a thing to count as a “view”), so it’s no surprise a prequel spin-off is coming. Described as a six-episode limited series, The Witcher: By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Let Godzilla and Kong fight Amidst all the spring blockbusters moving back to the fall, we are guaranteed one big movie to watch (at home): Godzilla vs Kong, which will premiere in whatever theaters are open and on HBO Max on March 26. Sure, everyone hates Warner Brothers now, a bunch of their creative partners By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 12:07 pm
Star Wars The Return of Toxic Fandom and #IStandWithKrystina Over the weekend you may have noticed a hashtag trending, #IStandWithKrystina, and wondered, “Is this some Star Wars sh-t?” The answer is yes, it is some Star Wars sh-t as the most infamous toxic fandom in the land reared its ugly head once again, this time coming for actor, table-top By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 10:26 am
TV Updates An ode to WandaVision’s mid-century kitchen I am, thus far, a bit frustrated with WandaVision. We are now three episodes in and the central conceit—Wanda and Vision are settling down in suburbia, but Something Is Wrong—has not advanced since episode one. Sure, things happen, but the things that happen are just reinforcing the central By Sarah • Jan 25, 2021 03:39 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton will be back! In today’s most unsurprising news, Bridgerton, one of Netflix’s biggest original hits of all time, has been renewed for a second season. https://twitter.com/bridgerton/status/1352277273752305665 As the first season followed the plot of the first book in Julia Quinn’s “Bridgerton” series, so to the By Sarah • Jan 22, 2021 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No blockbusters any time soon Last week came the rumor that No Time to Die, the Bond film that started the chain reaction of shifting release dates last year, would move once again from its April 2021 release date. Well, it’s happened, and No Time to Die has moved to October 8, 2021, which By Sarah • Jan 22, 2021 09:42 am
Top Reads Madame Vice President I will never forget the day after election day in 2016, and the utter, eerie silence on the L as I rode into work. My emotional shock that day was not just about the disbelief that Trump actually won, that he was going to be the actual president of the By Sarah • Jan 21, 2021 11:47 am
