Movie Reviews and Previews The Old Guard challenges superhero movies to do better Remember when Avengers: Endgame came out (just one year ago!) and co-director Joe Russo was talking up the movie’s big gay moment (BGM) in which he cameos as a grieving widower who reveals, in Steve Rogers’s group therapy, that he went on a date with another man. The By Sarah • Jul 17, 2020 11:46 am
Henry Cavill Henry Cavill: Hot Nerd Back in The Tudors days, Henry Cavill was a public nerd. He talked about fantasy novels and role-playing games in interviews, and did not try to hide that he is the quintessential nerd who grows up hot. Then, he became Superman and suddenly, despite playing a King of the Nerds By Sarah • Jul 17, 2020 09:36 am
Douchebags Oh great, another bad man Ugh, ANOTHER one, another goddamn roach scurrying across the floor. This time, it’s Kevin Connolly, best known as E from Entourage, a charter member of the Pussy Posse, director of cinematic classic Gotti, is the latest bad man in the news. Yesterday, the Daily Beast published a report about By Sarah • Jul 16, 2020 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Project Power, a slip’n’slide for your mind! Coming off the success of The Old Guard, Netflix has decided that the natural follow-up to a smart superhero movie is a dumb superhero movie. The trailer for Project Power, Netflix’s next superhero movie, has dropped and boy, does it look stupid, like a cross between that Bradley Cooper By Sarah • Jul 15, 2020 11:30 am
TV Updates Michaela Coel deserves the full Phoebe* Like Cody, I had to work up to Michaela Coel’s new show, I May Destroy You. I loved her previous, two-series run of Chewing Gum, but I had seen a plot description of I May Destroy You and knew about the sexual assault plotline—based on Coel’s experience— By Sarah • Jul 14, 2020 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Palm Springs is a wacky existential rom-com for our times SPOILERS Stanley Kubrick once said, “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” Palm Springs is a film concerned with that supply of light, and how we find meaning when life seems meaningless and every day the same. Directed by Max Barbakow, making his feature film debut, and By Sarah • Jul 13, 2020 03:49 pm
TV Live Blog Perry Mason is trying so hard Perry Mason, HBO’s prestige prequel of the famous television attorney, is now at the halfway mark. With half the episodes in the can, two things have become very clear: one, Perry Mason isn’t just cynical, it is STEEPED in misery; and two, it is trying SO hard to By Sarah • Jul 13, 2020 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sexy Tesla Look, I am here for any and all Tesla content. I will watch, read, listen to, consume anything relating even tangentially to Nikola Tesla. He is one of the greatest minds the world has ever known, and we are only just beginning to scratch the surface of thinking about maybe By Sarah • Jul 10, 2020 01:32 pm
Charlize Theron Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne in The Old Guard Netflix’s original movies have come a long way in a short amount of time. We’re just two and a half years removed from the total waste of Bright, and now with The Old Guard Netflix proves they can pick a decent project to back. More than decent, actually, By Sarah • Jul 10, 2020 12:22 pm
TV Updates Oscar and Michelle’s Marriage Story There is going to be SO MUCH breakup media coming out of this pandemic. And there will be some romantic stories to be told, but I predict the vibe of post-pandemic storytelling will be overwhelmingly about the meltdown, not the meet cute. Case in point: Oscar Isaac and Michelle Williams By Sarah • Jul 10, 2020 11:29 am
TV Updates The Quibi Experiment, Three Months Later Here’s a real question for us to ponder in the summer of nothing better to do: Which is going worse, the first months of Apple TV+ or the first months of Quibi? Both are enormously expensive streaming ventures, both had flashy launches touting impressive rosters of A List talent, By Sarah • Jul 07, 2020 12:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews An Unexpected Pickle Earlier this year, Sony sold Seth Rogen’s new movie, An American Pickle, to HBO Max, offloading it from their theatrical release schedule when coronavirus shut down the world. I said at the time that “This sounds like exactly the kind of dumb premise Rogen and his producing partners Evan By Sarah • Jul 06, 2020 12:56 pm
Douchebags Ray Fisher calls Joss Whedon “completely unacceptable” Amidst the wreckage of Justice League lies Cyborg, the part-man, part-robot character played by Ray Fisher. Cast by Zack Snyder in his first film role, Fisher by way of Cyborg was supposed to be Justice League’s break-out character, as Cyborg was not widely known to general audiences before the By Sarah • Jul 06, 2020 11:32 am
Kenan Thompson Ricky Gervais vs. the youths in comedy Voting for Emmy nominations is now underway with the nominees expected to be announced on July 28. And that means everyone is campaigning. This year’s Hollywood Reporter’s comedy actors roundtable features Ricky Gervais, Kumail Nanjiani, Ramy Youssef, Kenan Thompson, and Dan Levy – an interesting crop, especially as Gervais By Sarah • Jul 03, 2020 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Eurovision Song Contest is the dumb summer fun we need Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga—a title that never gets easier to deal with—is the dopamine hit we need this summer. If you’re missing the Eurovision Song Contest this year, Fire Saga has you covered with a series of Eurovision All-Star cameos and original songs By Sarah • Jun 29, 2020 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie’s lateral move Over the 2010s, Margot Robbie became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. She’s a two-time Oscar nominee with a hot production company, developing interesting, trophy-baiting projects for herself (I, Tonya), and for other people (Promising Young Woman), as well as creating television projects (Dollface). She’s a franchise By Sarah • Jun 29, 2020 10:28 am
