TV Updates Meet the Reservation Dogs As far as Indigenous filmmakers go, everyone knows Taika Waititi’s name, but another name to know is Sterlin Harjo, a Native writer/director from Oklahoma who worked in the indie scene throughout the 2010s with films like Four Sheets to the Wind, Barking Water, and Mekko. Harjo is debuting By Sarah • Jul 20, 2021 01:48 pm
TV Updates It’s almost Ted time! Ted Lasso returns this week, and not a moment too soon. It was the feel-good show of 2020, and since 2021 is its own kind of dumpster fire—guys, I’m starting to think things are just sh-tty now, everywhere, all the time—we could use a little By Sarah • Jul 20, 2021 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Breaking down the Point Break car chase To wrap up Point Break week we’re deep diving into one of the best scenes in the film: the chase scene. It starts with cars, ends in a footrace, includes an inexplicable dog punt, and features one of the most indelible moments in action cinema. The chase scene is By Sarah • Jul 16, 2021 03:14 pm
BFFs The Lasso Ladies Ted Lasso returns on July 23 and the premiere was held last night in Los Angeles. In true Keely fashion, Juno Temple showed up in a magenta wig. Also in true Ted fashion, Jason Sudeikis wore a shirt with “Jadon & Marcus & Bukayo” on it, in support of England By Sarah • Jul 16, 2021 11:35 am
TV Updates Loki breaks the world, but not the MCU machine Spoilers Loki wrapped up its inaugural season on Wednesday with a strong episode that feels very much like a classic TV SEASON finale. It’s all “tune in later to find out what happens!”. I know many people are frustrated with the cliffhanger, but Loki had a lot of spinning By Sarah • Jul 15, 2021 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Point Break is a feminine perspective on toxic masculinity There are a lot of reasons Point Break remains, after 30 years, incredibly watchable and a touchstone in pop culture. A lot of it is to do with the eternal appeal of Keanu Reeves, of peak Patrick Swayze, of the great action scenes and dumb-fun plot. Some of it By Sarah • Jul 14, 2021 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix brings true crime flavor to conversion therapy with Pray Away Since Making A Murderer debuted in 2015, Netflix has carved a space as one of the go-to purveyors of true crime documentaries. Now, they’re bringing true crime style to a documentary about gay conversion therapy, Pray Away, from producers Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum, and directed by Kristine By Sarah • Jul 13, 2021 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Point Break at 30 Today marks the 30th anniversary of one of American action cinema’s most iconic films, Point Break. So welcome to Point Break Week! We’ll be revisiting the film over the next few days and the reasons why it continues to appeal, and is still so beloved, after three decades. By Sarah • Jul 12, 2021 03:32 pm
TV Updates Everyone’s favorite fantasy himbo is back The Witcher was Netflix’s dumb-fun hit of late 2019/early 2020—that seems like both forever ago and surprisingly recent—and on Friday, the first teaser for season two dropped, bringing back Henry Cavill as everyone’s favorite fantasy himbo, Geralt of Rivia. The show was delayed thanks By Sarah • Jul 12, 2021 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow: The box office is back Over the last few months, as theaters have reopened, the box office has been lurching back into gear. Godzilla vs. Kong got the ball rolling, F9 kicked it into second gear, and Black Widow just set a record with a record domestic opening during the pandemic with $80 million, besting By Sarah • Jul 12, 2021 10:27 am
TV Updates Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain’s marriage horror story A new adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From A Marriage is coming to HBO from Israeli filmmaker Hagai Levi. It was originally supposed to star Oscar Isaac and Michelle Williams, but then Williams had to drop out and Jessica Chastain stepped in, reuniting the A Most Violent Year co- By Sarah • Jul 09, 2021 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow: Marvel is back Black Widow marks Marvel’s return to theaters after a two-year forced hiatus. Directed by Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome, Lore) and written by Marvel veteran Eric Pearson (with a story by Ned Benson and WandaVision’s Jac Schaeffer), the film begins with an extended cold open that flashes back By Sarah • Jul 08, 2021 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pratt in The Tomorrow War The Tomorrow War, which comes from director Chris McKay and writer Zach Dean, clearly, desperately, wants to be Independence Day for the 21st century, but it so fundamentally misunderstands the assignment that it’s missed the science fair altogether. The film opens with one of those five-second YouTube trailer By Sarah • Jul 07, 2021 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taylour Paige and Riley Keough in Zola Back in 2015, Twitter lit up with a thread—the first official “thread”—from user @_zolarmoon. In it, A’Ziah “Zola” King recounted a fateful trip to Florida with a white friend, her sappy boyfriend, and her friend’s pimp. It was a wild, classically Floridian tale, though it began By Sarah • Jul 07, 2021 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews F9: This might as well happen In 2001, The Fast and the Furious was about street racing and selling stolen DVD players. It was Point Break with cars. It was simple, and dumb, and kind of fun in the way early 2000s films are, caught between the overblown action of the post-Matrix world and the By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tony Leung is Shang-Chi’s bad dad A new trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here, this one showing off even more Tony Leung—inject that man’s presence into my veins, please—and Michelle Yeoh, but less Awkwafina. The first trailer was the introduction to the style of Shang-Chi, By Sarah • Jun 25, 2021 11:22 am
