Top Reads Inauguration Day in America (a spark of hope) Inauguration Day marks the end of my trilogy on the 2021 American election. This election has been marred by lies, conspiracies, and armed insurrection, so I have never really relaxed even after the election was called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And I’m still not relaxed, even though By Sarah • Jan 21, 2021 09:41 am
TV Updates Search Party tries something new Spoilers Search Party is a show that is constantly reinventing itself. In season one, it was a biting observational comedy about sh-tty Millennials, season two found the sh-tty Millennials starring in a crime drama, and season three lampooned legal dramas as the sh-tty Millennials were charged with one of the By Sarah • Jan 19, 2021 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendalland reunited On set, anyway. Tom Holland and Zendaya are working on Spider-Man 3 (version 2) and were photographed on set together. MJ appears to be working in a donut shop now, and there is fake snow falling. Are we in for another random Hallmark Christmas movie ending for a December superhero By Sarah • Jan 19, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews WandaVision brings out the weird in Marvel WandaVision, Marvel Studio’s first foray into television—the Netflix shows don’t count, as they were produced by Marvel Entertainment—gives us our first taste of the MCU in over a year. And a weird taste it is, as we find Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen, FINALLY given something to By Sarah • Jan 18, 2021 01:33 pm
TV Updates Ethan Hawke is Oscar Isaac’s villain Ethan Hawke is a Gen X icon who has, like several of his Gen X peers, entered the “interesting character actor” phase of his career (see also: Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder). Even when I don’t love the end result of a particular film, Hawke’s recent performances are unfailingly By Sarah • Jan 18, 2021 12:52 pm
Business of Hollywood Ray Fisher lost his job The long-running saga of Ray Fisher and the toxic on-set culture of the Justice League reshoots overseen by Joss Whedon has come to an end, and it is an end many feared: Ray Fisher lost his job as Cyborg in the DC extended universe. There was always anxiety that in By Sarah • Jan 15, 2021 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cap is back This week in Yeah, We Figured news, Chris Evans is reportedly returning to the MCU as Captain America. Deadline calls it “a move sure to rock the Marvel Cinematic Universe”, as if we didn’t all just assume this would happen eventually Bitch, have you ever seen a Marvel movie? By Sarah • Jan 15, 2021 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix dunks on everybody Yesterday Netflix released a video promoting their 2021 films and it’s the video equivalent of screaming, “I am a golden god!” and diving into a pool from the roof of a three-story house. Netflix is taking a victory lap before anyone else even lined up for the race. Lainey By Sarah • Jan 13, 2021 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All the blockbusters are delaying again 2020 will be remembered as the year without blockbusters, but the way things are looking, 2021 is going to be more of the same. Earlier this week, Morbius delayed its release date, again, from March 19 to October 8 (honestly, October is a much friendlier month for a vampire-themed superhero By Sarah • Jan 13, 2021 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s Cherry Since the Oscars expanded eligibility for Our Plague Year: 2020, we are now getting a rash of new year movies to meet the extended February deadline. Malcolm & Marie is one of these movies, and now we have a teaser for Cherry, starring Tom Holland. It’s a Zendalland reunion! By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lucy-Desi casting curse Back in 2015, which was both five years ago and a hundred years ago, we learned that Aaron Sorkin was writing a biopic of Lucille Ball which would star Cate Blanchett. Now Sorkin is finally realizing the project, though it will no longer star Blanchett. Titled Being the Ricardos, the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool brings its R rating to the MCU When Disney swallowed Fox whole almost two years ago, there were many questions about what it would mean for the industry, for the library of Fox films, and other business things. What nerds cared about, though, was what would happen to the X-Men, especially Deadpool, since he is 1) the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 10:37 am
TV Updates Search Party is back! It feels VERY weird to write about anything else right now, let alone a trailer for a TV show, but you know, life goes on, I guess. I mean, armed insurrections stormed the US capitol yesterday, Congress had to be evacuated, someone died, and now…everything is normal again? Very By Sarah • Jan 07, 2021 01:36 pm
TV Updates The History of Swear Words: 2021’s first disappointment I had such hopes. The History of Swear Words looked like the right combination of interesting and funny, and while the full series is sort of interesting, it is not very funny. And worse, pursuit of jokes actually makes it less interesting. The series, directed by Christopher D’Elia—not By Sarah • Jan 07, 2021 11:40 am
TV Updates WandaVision’s song(s) WandaVision drops next week on Disney+, which will officially begin the Marvel era on the streaming platform (and then we’ll get to find out how much that is worth to new subscribers). Ahead of the premiere, Marvel released another trailer for the series, teasing Wanda Maximoff and Vision’s By Sarah • Jan 05, 2021 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is there Batman drama? I mean, MORE Batman drama, since we know DC Films intends to have many Batmen running around, which provides its own, unique flavor of drama. But THIS Batman drama pertains to Robert Pattinson and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which is, maybe, not going so hot. Consider the source with a By Sarah • Jan 04, 2021 12:30 pm
