TV Updates Loki meets Mobius Sunday night, Marvel and Disney+ did great at the MTV Movie & TV Awards. Their first forays into streaming television won big, and an OG6 Avenger was given the Generation Award, and during the broadcast they dropped a clip from Loki, their next series due in just under a month. By Sarah • May 18, 2021 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie in Those Who Wish Me Dead Angelina Jolie returns to her action roots—where is that Salt sequel?!—in Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead, which is spare, 90s-style thriller with a wildfire hook. Adapted from Michael Koryta’s book of the same name by Sheridan, Koryta, and Charles Leavitt, Jolie stars as By Sarah • May 17, 2021 03:31 pm
TV Updates Get to know Anne Boleyn with Jodie Turner-Smith On Friday, Jodie Turner-Smith dropped a teaser for Anne Boleyn on her Instagram. The lighting continues to be bad, but besides that, the teaser shows us brief hits of Anne Boleyn as the world starts to close in around her, with no sons delivered to Henry VIII and a By Sarah • May 17, 2021 12:54 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton gets its first spin-off I say “first” because the Bridgerton book universe includes prequels, so there was always a high potential for spin-offs with Bridgerton. The first spin-off, though, will not be based on a Julia Quinn book but is inspired by Queen Charlotte, played in the series by Golda Rosheuvel. Shonda By Sarah • May 17, 2021 10:00 am
TV Updates The Underground Railroad ep 1-3 Spoilers for episodes 1-3 of The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, arrives on Amazon Prime today, with all ten episodes available to stream at once. This is completely the wrong way to absorb it. By Sarah • May 14, 2021 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kathryn Hahn also has her Knives Out On the heels of Janelle Monae joining the cast of Knives Out 2, Kathryn Hahn has also joined the sequel cast. Hahn is officially ascending to her final form, going from “everyone’s secret fave” to “widely acknowledged superstar”. The entire MCU is worth it just to get Kathryn Hahn By Sarah • May 14, 2021 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Janelle Monae has her Knives Out Knives Out, one of the most notable non-franchise blockbusters to hit theaters in the last few years, is now a franchise that will play on Netflix. The sequel is set to film later this summer in Greece—after the production design of a New England estate in the first By Sarah • May 13, 2021 12:12 pm
Business of Hollywood The Golden Globes are cancelled We are watching the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes implode in real time, and it’s kind of amazing. If you thought the awards industrial complex was completely entrenched, too big to fail, et cetera, well, the last week has really been something. To recap, before the By Sarah • May 11, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Green Knight is back on! Last year, we had barely been given the promise of The Green Knight, David Lowery’s trippy take on the Arthurian tale, when COVID crashed the world. The Green Knight was one of many films delayed in 2020, but it’s the one I was most hoping would just show By Sarah • May 11, 2021 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Venom tries again Venom: Let There Be Carnage was one of the many films delayed by the pandemic last year, but it will finally be coming out this year—currently scheduled for September 24—and to that end, we have a trailer to ogle. It’s fine! Venom was an accidental hit in By Sarah • May 10, 2021 12:40 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Lily and Sebastian and Pam & Tommy On Friday we were given a gift, a great gift, the gift of Lily James and Sebastian Stan done up in costume as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. The two are starring in Hulu’s upcoming limited series Pam & Tommy, which focuses on their whirlwind romance made in 1990s By Sarah • May 10, 2021 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hannah John-Kamen is Red Sonja One of the last remaining long-gestating comic book adaptations is Red Sonja, the sword-and-sorcery comic about the woman in the metal bikini with a big sword. The film remake—Brigitte Nielsen previously played Sonja in a 1985 film that is truly terrible—has been stewing for a By Sarah • May 06, 2021 09:59 am
TV Updates Ewan McGregor is Halston for the world Last week we got a cover profile of Ewan McGregor in advance of his new Netflix series Halston, about the 1970s fashion designer-icon. Now we have a trailer to give us a taste of McGregor as Halston. Look, he seems fantastic. He’s a great actor, the quality of By Sarah • May 04, 2021 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Eternals Marvel dropped a super masturbatory Phase 4 teaser this morning, and while it is hilariously self-important, it does include some new upcoming titles, a Fantastic Four promise, and our first look at newly minted Oscar Best Director and Best Picture winner Chloe Zhao’s Eternals. First, let’s talk By Sarah • May 03, 2021 11:53 am
Top Reads Bridgerton at the Races Filming of season two of Bridgerton is underway which means we have our first look at the family in the season of 1814 (minus Regé-Jean Page as Simon, who will be, I don’t know, busy on his estate all year or something). Set photos reveal the Bridgertons at By Sarah • May 03, 2021 10:34 am
TV Updates Sharon Carter’s new job Spoilers One of the joys of WandaVision was how that show took underused side characters like Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo and made them more fulsome characters in the MCU. Sure, they’re still exposition machines, but WandaVision gave them a chance to demonstrate expertise and contribute beyond just silly By Sarah • Apr 30, 2021 01:25 pm
