Movie Reviews and Previews Turns out, Tom Cruise can’t stop COVID Today in You Will Never Believe This news, it turns out that Tom Cruise, noted defender against coronavirus, cannot actually stop viral transmission with his bare hands. No! He cannot! Not even if he runs directly at it! This shocking and upsetting news comes to us as Mission: Impossible 7, By Sarah • Jun 04, 2021 11:06 am
Anthony Mackie New Cap On Campus As Lainey mentioned previously, the Avengers Campus at Disneyland opened last night. Even still halfway stuck in a pandemic, Marvel manages to put on a show, and this is an interesting moment for them because not only is Kevin Feige now appearing alongside Disney’s finally fully-fledged new CEO, By Sarah • Jun 03, 2021 12:10 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad rolls to a close Spoilers Be advised that episodes 9 and 10 contain disturbing images, including massacre violence, suicide, and infanticide. The final episodes of The Underground Railroad are the most harrowing of the series as Cora (Thuso Mbedu) once again tries to establish a life outside slavery. Royal (William Jackson Harper), who freed By Sarah • May 28, 2021 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place Part II Emily Blunt reunites with her husband, John Krasinski, for a sequel to their 2018 genre hit A Quiet Place. Picking up where the first film left off, A Quiet Place Part II finds post-apocalyptic mother Evelyn Abbott (Blunt) traipsing through a silenced world to avoid alien attack. Now, though, By Sarah • May 28, 2021 01:05 pm
TV Updates Mean Rose Byrne is real! When we first glimpsed the upcoming Apple TV+ series Physical, I wondered if the acidic, mean version of Rose Byrne’s character was somehow a product of her imagination, a bored, frustrated housewife projecting herself into the glamorous world of celebrity aerobics. No! Apparently not! A full trailer for Physical By Sarah • May 28, 2021 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone and Emma Thompson in Cruella Cruella opens with a precociously malicious child named Estella (Tipper Seifert-Cleveland), born with distinctive two-tone hair and a mean streak a mile wide, repeatedly getting in trouble at school. Her mother, Catherine (Emily Beecham), pleads with Estella to be nice, to get along, to not be “Cruella”, the By Sarah • May 27, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Worst Chris in the dumbest movie A month ago, we saw a teaser for Chris Pratt’s new movie, The Tomorrow War, and Lainey got hung up on whether or not the music sounds like “O Canada”. (She also threw in a barb that Americans wouldn’t recognize it because we don’t know “O Canada” By Sarah • May 27, 2021 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Edgar Wright does horror Edgar Wright’s latest film, Last Night in Soho, is yet another pandemic delay that will finally be released later this year (in October, to be exact). The first trailer dropped yesterday, and yes, I am very into it. Soho is Wright’s take on the horror genre—people are By Sarah • May 26, 2021 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Eternals are here A few weeks after a Phase 4 teaser gave us our first glimpse of Chloe Zhao’s Eternals, a teaser trailer has arrived showing us the Eternals in action throughout human history. The sweeping opening shot of a pre-historic cliff is lovely, the crashing waves contrasted with the simplicity By Sarah • May 25, 2021 01:02 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad reaches its nadir but offers (some) hope Spoilers for episodes 4-7 of The Underground Railroad After the odyssey of the first three episodes, The Underground Railroad shifts into a contemplative mood for its middle episodes. Episode four, “The Great Spirit” (once again, all episodes are directed by Barry Jenkins, and this episode is written by Adrienne By Sarah • May 21, 2021 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Hudson ALSO has her Knives Out The Knives Out 2 casting director is like Oprah handing out cars—you get a Knives Out! And you get a Knives Out! And YOU get a Knives Out!!! The cast is already stuffed with incredible people, and the latest inclusions include Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kate Hudson, who co- By Sarah • May 21, 2021 10:03 am
TV Updates Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are nosy neighbors Yesterday, a teaser was released for Only Murders in the Building, a ten-episode series coming to Hulu (and Star, internationally) on August 31. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez play nosy neighbors who get caught up in a murder mystery in their apartment building. Short’s character is By Sarah • May 19, 2021 03:29 pm
Business of Hollywood Merger Mania Part II: Amazon and MGM On the heels of the news that AT&T is dumping WarnerMedia on Discovery comes the news that Amazon is in talks to buy MGM (you can read an un-paywalled version of the story here). It was always inevitable that Amazon would buy out a studio—as it By Sarah • May 19, 2021 12:17 pm
Business of Hollywood Merger Mania Part I: WarnerMedia & Discovery Over the weekend, word broke that AT&T, just three years after acquiring Time Warner—now called WarnerMedia—in a blockbuster merger, would dump their still-new entertainment sector and pair it with Discovery to make a separate operation as yet to be named. The news sent a shockwave By Sarah • May 19, 2021 11:42 am
Quiveration Henry Golding is a hot ninja Also Sunday night during the MTV Movie and TV Awards, Paramount dropped a trailer for Snake Eyes, a GI Joe spin-off starring Henry Golding as a ninja assassin. I have zero nostalgia for or attachment to GI Joe, so I do not know or care if this looks true By Sarah • May 18, 2021 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Boyega Attack the Block sequel One of the great cult sci-fi flicks of the 2010s is Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, in which aliens invade a South London council estate and a group of local kids must defend their home. If you have not seen it, fix your life and get right with By Sarah • May 18, 2021 12:56 pm
