Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan shocker In an absolutely shocking move, Disney has announced it will make Mulan, one of the oft-delayed movies affected by COVID-19, available on September 4 via its streaming platform, Disney+. I literally did not think this was possible—no one did! Mulan cost a rumored $300 million to make (Disney is By Sarah • Aug 05, 2020 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Remember a Real President and Weep Good morning, I’m crying. Why? Because of the trailer for The Way I See It, a documentary about former White House photographer Pete Souza and his time working for two (very different) presidents: Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Based on Souza’s bestselling book of the same name, The By Sarah • Aug 04, 2020 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Singing teen Lady Macbeth Between Hamilton and Six, the musical that imagines Henry VIII’s wives as a girl group, historical revisionism with songs is having a moment. Now, that moment is stretching into previously existing historical revisionism, in this case, Macbeth (already revisionist thanks to Shakespeare). Channing Tatum and Scooter Braun are partnering By Sarah • Jul 31, 2020 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s and Issa Rae’s scary sinkhole Jordan Peele and Issa Rae are partnering on a…I guess we’ll call it a supernatural thriller, called Sinkhole. They will co-produce the project, and Rae might star in it. Based on Leyna Krow’s short story of the same name, it’s about a couple who move into By Sarah • Jul 30, 2020 11:36 am
TV Updates Welcome to Lovecraft Country HBO’s next big thing, they hope, is Lovecraft Country, a sci-fi/ horror/ adventure series based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name. It was developed by Underground’s Misha Green, and is produced by Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams. It has a lot going for it: prestige By Sarah • Jul 29, 2020 02:25 pm
TV Updates The Best Show You’re Not Watching Remember when magazines used to blare the headline, The best show you’re not watching!? (Remember when magazines?) Back then, there was an idea that you could keep up with most, if not all, of the stuff on television, and “the best show you’re not watching” would be some By Sarah • Jul 28, 2020 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet is back on I feel like we’re playing street hockey and cars keep passing through and we’re yelling “game off” and “game on” more than we’re actually playing the game, but we might finally be at the end of the road with Tenet. A week after pulling it from the By Sarah • Jul 28, 2020 10:05 am
Charlize Theron Charlize Theron talks about being a badass On Friday afternoon, Charlize Theron did a Comic-Con @ Home conversation—I can’t call these panels, they’re just not a comparable experience to what Comic-Con usually is—titled “Evolution of a Badass”, about her career, specifically, as an action hero. I wrote recently about Theron’s interesting evolution into By Sarah • Jul 27, 2020 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu is Keanu, even remotely We know Keanu Reeves has earned his place as one of Hollywood’s most enduring, capital-letter, neon-lights Movie Stars. He’s done it through decades of work, starring in some of the most popular and beloved films of all time, and also by being an unfailing, utterly dependable public persona. By Sarah • Jul 27, 2020 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The New Mutants still exist Comic-Con was cancelled this year, and in its place is “Comic-Con @ Home”, a series of pre-taped and Zoomed “panels” that, while decently robust given the last-minute nature of planning, is like a super-skinny version of the constant chaos that usually defines Comic-Con. One of the first big film “panels” to By Sarah • Jul 24, 2020 12:37 pm
TV Updates Perry Mason will keep trying Perry Mason is in the back half of its eight-episode run, and turned into a decent hit for HBO, with eight million people viewing the premiere. Therefore, HBO has renewed the show for a second season, which means that Perry Mason will keep trying cases, and Perry Mason will keep By Sarah • Jul 23, 2020 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill & Ted will be SEEN! Bill & Ted Face the Music has already shuffled its release date because of the ongoing theater closures in North America, but when the teaser came out earlier this summer, I mentioned this movie could shift to a digital release, since it is relatively low-budget. Well, guess what? Bill & By Sarah • Jul 23, 2020 12:54 pm
TV Updates Rub & Tug is revived, sans ScarJo A couple of years ago, Scarlett Johansson waded (again) into the waters of appropriation, intending to star in the movie Rub & Tug in the role of a trans man, Tex Gill, who ran a massage parlor empire in Pennsylvania in the 1970s (Tex Gill’s life sounds so cinematic) By Sarah • Jul 22, 2020 10:09 am
TV Updates Just give us the Dance of Dragons You know what? I don’t care how Game of Thrones ended, that show was f-cking rad. King Bran is stupid forever, but the rest of it rocks. I’ve been re-watching episodes (not all of them, because some are just too depressing/upsetting for the times), and when GOT By Sarah • Jul 21, 2020 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet is dateless Yesterday, the inevitable happened and after a month of hop-scotching release dates, Tenet was pulled from Warner Brothers’ release calendar entirely. They’re still committed to a 2020 release date, with studio chief Toby Emmerich issuing a statement that they will “share a new 2020 release date imminently”, but c’ By Sarah • Jul 21, 2020 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron: Power Producer Two weeks after its debut, Netflix is hailing The Old Guard as one of its biggest successes ever. All Netflix viewer data comes with a grain of salt, though, because there is no independent verification of Netflix’s viewership, and their own “watch” metric is measured in mere minutes, so By Sarah • Jul 20, 2020 03:09 pm
