Movie Reviews and Previews OF COURSE Tom Cruise wants a world tour Last Friday, Paramount shuffled their release dates again, including pushing Top Gun: Maverick from the patriotic and military-movie friendly July 4 weekend to November 19. Now, we are learning the reason for that move, or at least one of them, is that Tom Cruise wants to do a full By Sarah • Apr 14, 2021 10:01 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua abandon Georgia So, obviously, Joe Biden becoming President of the United States did not fix every problem in the world. In fact, based on the events of the last few weeks, it is very much a case of “same song, different verse”. Following a historic election in Georgia that saw the red By Sarah • Apr 13, 2021 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Phoebe Waller-Bridge will try to save Indiana Jones More than anything, I love Indiana Jones. And more than any disappointing pop culture thing that has happened so far in the 2000s, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom the Crystal Skull broke me. Games of Thrones had a disappointing finale? I made my peace with it. New New Star Wars By Sarah • Apr 12, 2021 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paramount changes dates again, won’t risk Tom Cruise On Friday Paramount shuffled their release calendar (again), making continual adjustments to the schedule based on ever-evolving COVID situations around the world. Right now, it seems that by summer some places will be fairly well recovered and back to normal business while other places will remain at least partially By Sarah • Apr 12, 2021 11:16 am
TV Updates Alaqua Cox on set Filming for Hawkeye is under way in Georgia, bringing us our first clear shots of Alaqua Cox on set as Maya Lopez, aka Echo. (Interestingly, there was an industry-wide outcry in 2019 when the Georgia state legislature attempted to severely restrict reproductive rights, but in the wake of Georgia’ By Sarah • Apr 09, 2021 12:41 pm
TV Updates Queen Jodie walks Anne Boleyn, starring Jodie Turner-Smith, is expected to air on the UK’s Channel 5 later this year. Previously, we saw a still photo of JTS as the erstwhile queen, and now we have a shot of her in motion, walking down a hall: Your first look at our By Sarah • Apr 09, 2021 11:57 am
Top Reads Power producer Scott Rudin is a toxic boss And “toxic” is putting it lightly. A new expose in The Hollywood Reporter goes HAM on Scott Rudin, the EGOT-winning power producer behind such films as Clueless, The Social Network, Doubt, Fences, the Addams Family duology, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, and he’s a frequent producer By Sarah • Apr 08, 2021 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cruella is delicious eye candy A second trailer for Cruella has arrived, now that we know this movie is coming out, for sure, on May 28 (in theaters and on Disney+ for a surcharge). I am rooting for this movie, I hope it’s good, because the aesthetic is ENTIRELY my sh-t and I’ By Sarah • Apr 07, 2021 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield’s Nic Cage phase Andrew Garfield’s last movie was 2018’s Under the Silver Lake, a deliberately confounding film that some people love and some people hate. His new movie is Mainstream, a film that appears, on the surface, aimed at the YouTube generation of creators and performers and in it, Garfield is By Sarah • Apr 07, 2021 12:14 pm
TV Updates The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is struggling We are now halfway through The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and man can you feel the gears grinding on this one. WandaVision took a second to get going, but once it got there, it took off and hit some really interesting and heady highs in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. By Sarah • Apr 06, 2021 03:30 pm
TV Updates Loki is here to fix time A new trailer for Loki, the next-in-line series from Marvel on Disney+, dropped this morning and YES, THIS IS EXTREMELY MY SH-T. I mostly liked WandaVision, and am so-so on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but Loki is the Marvel show I am most interested By Sarah • Apr 05, 2021 12:17 pm
TV Updates The Duke is Done Big Bridgerton news dropped on Friday: Regé-Jean Page, the breakout star of season one, will not return for season two. The duke is done. Many people are heartbroken, even though I previously mentioned that Simon and Daphne are not main players in the second book, which features Anthony as By Sarah • Apr 05, 2021 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Godzilla vs. Kong is the dumb escape Spoilers Two years ago I wrote about Godzilla: King of the Monsters and said that I wasn’t sure there is a way to make Godzilla work as a Hollywood (re)invention. Godzilla is not our cultural myth, and America’s unwillingness to face the moral reckoning of the atomic By Sarah • Apr 01, 2021 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Knives Out is Netflix’s latest blockbuster In 2019 Knives Out was not just one of the best films of the year, but also an original idea that turned into a legitimate blockbuster, earning over $311 million against a $40 million budget. Those kinds of mid-budget success stories almost don’t happen anymore, and sequel talk By Sarah • Apr 01, 2021 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zola: When Twitter Was Fun Last year at Sundance—the last major film festival before COVID shut everything down for one (1) solid year—Zola was the big divisive hit of the fest. Zola is adapted from that wild Twitter thread about how “me and this bitch here fell out”, which is basically the last By Sarah • Mar 31, 2021 02:05 pm
TV Updates Amanda Seyfried’s Oscar bump Amanda Seyfried scored her first Oscar nomination this year for Mank (she is the least objectionable part of that film, and gives a legit great performance amidst the wankery), and she is not wasting time cashing in that Oscar bump for buzzy new projects. Seyfried has been tapped to take By Sarah • Mar 30, 2021 11:40 am
