Dumbass Eddie Redmayne sticks his foot in Eddie Redmayne is promoting The Trial of the Chicago 7, the upcoming Aaron Sorkin film and one of Netflix’s starriest Oscar hopefuls for the year. In the film, Redmayne portrays activist Tom Hayden, one of the defendants in the trial, and to promote the film, he gave an interview By Sarah • Sep 29, 2020 10:14 am
Faux Gossip Tom Cruise is Iron Man? Once upon a time, before Robert Downey, Jr. revived his career (again), some stuffed suits at Marvel wanted Tom Cruise to play Tony Stark. It’s become part of MCU lore, that it could have been Tom Cruise, in another universe. Well, since the MCU will soon be expanding into By Sarah • Sep 24, 2020 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney quits 2020 Doing the only reasonable thing at this point, Disney has basically given up on 2020, moving 90% of their movies to 2021, including the entire Marvel theatrical slate which will now kick off with Black Widow in May 2021. This brings Black Widow’s total delay to twelve entire months, By Sarah • Sep 24, 2020 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Water Man directed by David Oyelowo David Oyelowo made his feature directorial debut at TIFF with The Water Man, a kid-adventure story that is a little bit The Goonies, a little bit Stand By Me, and a lot The Bridge to Terabithia. Oyelowo sets a decent-sized task for himself, tackling not only an emotional family-in-crisis story, By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Millie Bobby Brown is GREAT as Enola Holmes Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) is a spunky teenage detective whose resilience prevents her from being crushed by the social mores and expectations of Victorian England. When her eccentric mother (Helena Bonham Carter) disappears on her 16th birthday, Enola—who keeps reminding us her name is “alone” backwards—sets out By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Janelle Monae in Antebellum Holy hell, you guys. I thought I had seen the most bonkers twist of the year in Shadow in the Cloud, but then Antebellum came along and said, “Hold my ENTIRE KEG.” There will be SPOILERS because there is no way to discuss this film without getting into the big By Sarah • Sep 22, 2020 02:55 pm
TV Updates Justice for Wanda(Vision)! During the PandEmmys, Disney+ dropped a trailer for WandaVision, easily the most interesting of the upcoming MCU TV shows. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was supposed to be the first of the Disney+ Marvel series, but they only just resumed production this week after COVID shut them (and everyone By Sarah • Sep 22, 2020 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Another Round (Druk) Another Round reunites the Danish dream-team behind The Hunt: writer/director Thomas Vinterberg, screenwriter Tobias Lindholm, and actors Thomas Bo Larsen and Mads Mikkelsen for a middle-aged drinking buddies tale. It follows Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Lars Ranthe), and Nikolaj (Magnus Millang), four friends embarking on an alcohol-fueled journey By Sarah • Sep 18, 2020 03:05 pm
TV Updates Tatiana Maslany’s big role Despite another expected delay that could slide the MCU schedule back again, Marvel is still casting up their next round of projects. On the heels of casting Jonathan Majors as a supervillain, the latest heroine to enter the Marvel fold is Tatiana Maslany, who will headline the upcoming She-Hulk series By Sarah • Sep 18, 2020 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Shadow in the Cloud Well, here it is, the most ridiculous movie I’ve seen from TIFF this year. Shadow in the Cloud stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Maude Garrett, a female pilot in World War II tasked with a secret mission. She joins a transport flight from New Zealand to Samoa, her arm By Sarah • Sep 17, 2020 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: I Care a Lot And the “Most Unexpected Film of TIFF 2020” award goes to I Care a Lot, which sounds like a drama about elder abuse but is, in fact, a wildly dark, pitch black comedy about terrible people doing terrible things. Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike at her most deliciously mean) is a By Sarah • Sep 17, 2020 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: I Am Greta Swedish documentarian Nathan Grossman happened upon then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg just as she was beginning her “school strike for climate” in Stockholm in 2018. He began documenting Thunberg’s strike, and ended up recording her meteoric year as she rose to international prominence as a climate activist, culminating in her By Sarah • Sep 16, 2020 12:55 pm
TV Updates Can Baby Yoda save 2020? 2020, a year so awful it is officially sponsored by garbage, continues being just the worst, but wait, what’s that? There, in the distance! Is it, could it be…Baby Yoda? Yes, it is! Baby Yoda has returned to redeem this terrible f-cking year! The Mandalorian season two trailer By Sarah • Sep 16, 2020 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Pieces of a Woman On paper, Pieces of a Woman is awards season catnip. An emotionally grand yet intimately domestic portrait of a family in crisis after an unspeakable tragedy, Pieces of a Woman has long, show-stopping monologues and unceasing conflict for actors to play against a backdrop of bleak cityscapes, all things that By Sarah • Sep 15, 2020 03:12 pm
Idris Elba TIFF Review: Concrete Cowboy Based on the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neri, Concrete Cowboy is a boy-and-his-horse coming of age tale set within the world of urban horsemanship. Urban cowboys gained increased visibility this summer as many urban cowboy groups turned up at protests across the country, a seemingly incongruous spectacle that is By Sarah • Sep 15, 2020 02:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jonathan Majors conquers the MCU Jonathan Majors is crushing it. From his breakout role in last year’s Last Black Man in San Francisco to Da 5 Bloods to Lovecraft Country, the dude is on a roll. And now he is doing the thing it seems every breakout star does: he is joining the Marvel By Sarah • Sep 15, 2020 11:01 am
