Award Season Campaigning Extreme Marvel Dad Energy The Emmys are proceeding on September 20, though no one is quite sure what the show will look like. Will it be virtual? Will it be nominees only? Is Jimmy Kimmel still hosting or will he be replaced? Many questions, no answers. What we do know is that the award By Sarah • Jun 26, 2020 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet blinked again With COVID-19 cases on the rise in the US, Tenet has once again delayed its release, moving off its second date of July 31 for a mid-week drop on Wednesday, August 12. When I wrote about the first date change, I said it was “probably the first in what will By Sarah • Jun 26, 2020 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Blackfeet Boxing Club Earlier this summer, ESPN dominated quarantine viewing with The Last Dance, a docuseries about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Their next big sports documentary is about an all-women boxing club…on a Native American reservation. Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible tells the story of the Blackfeet Boxing Club, founded by By Sarah • Jun 25, 2020 11:29 am
TV Updates Perry Mason is of our time The first episode of HBO’s rebooted Perry Mason aired on the weekend, and it is a cynical show for a cynical time. Set during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, in that liminal space where nothing feels real and everything is possible, a young boy, Charlie, is By Sarah • Jun 24, 2020 11:45 am
Douchebags Ugh, Bryan Singer This was my reaction when I saw Bryan Singer’s name on an email from site manager Emily this morning, “Ugh, Bryan Singer.” The roach analogy was even better than I realized, because here comes another one, scuttling across the floor. You might have thought Singer was done, after an By Sarah • Jun 24, 2020 11:08 am
Douchebags Winona Ryder reminds us who Mel Gibson is Not that anyone SHOULD need reminding, but just in case someone DID forget, Mel Gibson is a raging asshole and all-around bad person. To remind us, Winona Ryder emerged from her self-quarantine to tell The Sunday Times about that time in the 1990s when Gibson said homophobic and anti-Semitic things By Sarah • Jun 24, 2020 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Here for The King’s Man, whenever it comes out Here’s another “we’ll see it when we see it” movie: The King’s Man, the prequel to the Kingsman movies, is supposed to come out this fall. To that end, a new trailer was released yesterday, touting that it will be “Only in theaters September 18”. You know By Sarah • Jun 23, 2020 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Keaton may return as Batman Today in I Didn’t Even Know That Was An Option news, Michael Keaton may return as Batman in The Flash, the movie centered on Ezra Miller’s speedster. The Wrap first reported that Keaton is in talks to reprise the role, but then Deadline jumped in to clarify that By Sarah • Jun 23, 2020 10:38 am
Douchebags The latest bad man: Ansel Elgort Bad men are like roaches—there’s never just one. There’s always a whole freaking hive, just behind the walls, and the moment one gets caught out in the light, just wait for it because more will soon be exposed. Case in point: On June 16 comedian Chris D’ By Sarah • Jun 22, 2020 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Justice League’s REAL villain With the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League coming to HBO Max next year, director Zack Snyder is now dropping teasers of his previously unseen footage, beginning with a brief scene of Wonder Woman discovering Darkseid, the REAL villain of Justice League who barely got mentioned in the theatrical version, which By Sarah • Jun 19, 2020 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet determined Tenet, now set to come out at the end of July instead of in the middle of July, covers Entertainment Weekly for what should be a typical promotional cover shoot but ends up being about the expectations on Tenet to save the summer movie season. Of course, the typical promotional By Sarah • Jun 19, 2020 11:02 am
Dumbass Nia DaCosta gives us a taste of Candyman Candyman was supposed to come out this month, but has been, like every other movie, rescheduled to later in the year (supposedly September 25, but we’ll see). In lieu of seeing the actual movie, director Nia DaCosta dropped a two-minute short “prequel” on Twitter, telling the story of the By Sarah • Jun 18, 2020 10:36 am
Royals Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana? Today in ??? News, Kristen Stewart has been tapped to play Princess Diana in an upcoming biopic titled Spencer. KStew is one of my favorite actresses who has, much like Robert Pattinson, used her post-Twilight years to craft an interesting and varied career. Even still, I’m having a little trouble By Sarah • Jun 17, 2020 02:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Staycation with Palm Springs Earlier this year, the biggest title at Sundance was Palm Springs, a Groundhog Day-esque rom-com starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti. Not only was Palm Springs one of the best-received films to play at Sundance, but it also closed the biggest deal in Sundance history, selling to Hulu and By Sarah • Jun 17, 2020 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is an old-man movie the same way The Irishman is Martin Scorsese’s old-man movie, in that this is only a movie Lee could make now, after thirty years of filmmaking, when he has gained the perspective to look back and see cycles repeating By Sarah • Jun 16, 2020 11:58 am
Award Season Campaigning The Oscars blinked, too Following Warner Brothers’ decision to move Tenet back a couple weeks, the Academy has also decided to move, pushing the 2021 Oscar telecast back by two months, from February 28, 2021 to April 25, 2021. Eligibility for consideration has also been extended, with the exhibition window running until February 28, By Sarah • Jun 16, 2020 09:11 am
