TV Updates Lady Whistledown is our holiday obsession Over the last few years, Netflix has started debuting series designed for bingeing during the holidays. It started with Making a Murderer, and last year it was The Witcher, and this year’s holiday binge is Bridgerton, the first show from Shondaland on Netflix. It’s an adaptation of Julia By Sarah • Nov 02, 2020 01:00 pm
TV Updates The Mandalorian returns The Mandalorian returned on Friday, bringing us back to the world of Din Djarin and Baby Yoda (who remains almost unbearably cute). The first season was a simple delight, and while I continue to have reservations about this show going too deep into Star Wars lore—which it doesn’t By Sarah • Nov 02, 2020 10:52 am
TV Updates The Crown: Girl Power! A couple of weeks ago we saw a teaser for The Crown season four, which promised Diana Drama! and only hinted at Gillian Anderson’s turn as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Well, the full trailer dropped yesterday, and it is a much more even-handed preview of the season, balancing the By Sarah • Oct 30, 2020 11:08 am
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen’s Gambit There is a certain type of character who appears in television shows, you know her when you see her: a lead character, pretty, almost always white, and the object of every other character’s fascination and sexual desire. She is interesting! So charming! A marvel! The show will insist this By Sarah • Oct 29, 2020 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece, Memories of Murder, returns in gorgeous, ghastly 4K (Lainey: A Halloween recommendation that isn’t Hocus Pocus or Practical Magic…) Bong Joon-ho’s sophomore film, Memories of Murder, is a masterpiece of the crime drama genre, and is arguably still Bong’s finest film to date. Loosely based on the Hwaseong serial murders—South Korea’s first recorded By Sarah • Oct 28, 2020 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rashida Jones and Bill Murray in On the Rocks On the Rocks, the latest from Sofia Coppola, is a dapper, dreamy dramedy dressed up like a mystery. Laura (Rashida Jones) is an author, struggling with her latest book as she tries to balance her artistic life and her home life with two young daughters and a husband who is By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney’s big Oscar beard Netflix is basically the only studio that has managed to get movies out with any consistency this year, and their train keeps rolling with the first trailer for George Clooney’s new sci-fi film, The Midnight Sky. It’s an end-of-the-world/space movie, with Clooney playing a scientist on Earth By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 12:32 pm
TV Updates Oscar Isaac is the latest Marvel hire Yesterday, “Moon Knight” started trending on social media, which I figured was either something to do with Marvel, or NASA had announced the intention of forming a band of chivalrous knights to patrol the moon against possible moon monsters (anything feels possible these days). Fortunately, it was the former and By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Totally Under Control will ENRAGE you Alex Gibney is a very good documentarian who made his name with Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Gibney’s bread and butter is making documentaries about political or political-adjacent figures doing dirty deeds in the back room (see also: Casino Jack and the United States of Money), but By Sarah • Oct 26, 2020 10:39 am
TV Updates Miracle Workers blesses 2020 with a third season Finally, 2020 has done something right and given us another season of a great show. Miracle Workers is a vastly underappreciated comedy series starring Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, and Lolly Adefope. The first season is about a group of angels trying to save Earth from a By Sarah • Oct 23, 2020 01:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran is Disney’s latest heroine It is a truth universally acknowledged that Kelly Marie Tran deserves way better than she got from her Star Wars experience. But what is done is done, and it’s onward and upward for Tran, who is the latest Disney heroine in Raya and the Last Dragon. The teaser dropped By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 12:23 pm
TV Updates GLOW actresses asked for better representation, and we won’t see it GLOW’s sudden cancellation due to COVID-19 means we won’t get to see the natural conclusion of the show, but now we are learning what else the cancellation is costing us. It turns out that in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the early summer, a By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 11:11 am
Dumbass 2020 reaches new low, Jared Leto to return as the Joker Today in Oh What Now news, it has been reported that Jared Leto will reprise his role as the Joker for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Yes, you read that right, Jared Leto, once the third best Joker and now the fourth best Joker, is getting a do-over while Joaquin By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Armie Hammer and Lily James in Rebecca Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is equal parts lavish and hollow, like a visit to a luxury department store—many fine goods are on display, but it’s just a bunch of f-cking handbags, Charlotte. Rebecca, already made to perfection by Alfred Hitchcock, tells the By Sarah • Oct 21, 2020 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hide out this holiday season with Happiest Season Here’s a bit of holiday cheer: Happiest Season, the LGBTQ rom-com starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Dan Levy will premiere on Hulu November 25, one day before US Thanksgiving. So if you’re looking for something to watch while hiding from your family—no matter how the election By Sarah • Oct 21, 2020 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad In just four years, Barry Jenkins has established his place among the very best of American filmmakers working today, so naturally he is hitting the next phase of his career, chiefly the blockbuster phase. He’s got a Disney project on the horizon, but first Jenkins will conquer television, directing By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 12:54 pm
