Movie Reviews and Previews Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges in French Exit French Exit stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a disaffected, broke widow who flees to Paris after losing it all in New York. This is the best role and performance Pfeiffer has had in years, and French Exit SHOULD be a genuine pleasure to watch just to see Pfeiffer do her thing, By Sarah • Feb 18, 2021 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Regé -Jean Page wastes no time The undisputed breakout of Bridgerton season one is Regé-Jean Page, the duke himself. With all the momentum of being the breakout star of Netflix’s biggest original show to date, Page is wasting no time. He has booked his first major role post-Bridgerton and will co-star with By Sarah • Feb 17, 2021 12:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Punk Rock Cruella The first trailer for Cruella, Disney’s villain origin story for Cruella De Vil, has arrived and it is fine. I mean, it LOOKS great. Can’t argue with Emma Stone and Emma Thompson vamping it up in fabulous Jenny Beavan costumes in 1970s London. I like that the basic By Sarah • Feb 17, 2021 11:52 am
TV Updates BRIDGERTON FOUND ITS KATE Today in Very Important Bridgerton News, the woman who is too good for Anthony Bridgerton has been cast. Sex Education’s Simone Ashley will star as Kate Sharma in season two. Kate! Is here! And she will NOT be taking ANY of Anthony’s bullsh-t, of which there is By Sarah • Feb 16, 2021 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is an instant comedy classic One unexpected facet of the COVID-year awards season is that because so many films vacated 2020 eligibility, we’re left with a crop of almost uniformly sad ass dramas, with no big studio crowd-pleasers to alleviate the field. It’s not that the films are bad—many of By Sarah • Feb 15, 2021 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Snyder Cut lives in a SOCIETY The official trailer for Zack Snyder’s Justice League—the official title of the “Snyder Cut”—arrived yesterday and it is largely the same trailer we saw for the Justice League three years ago. This has been one of my central issues with the Snyder Cut all along: that it By Sarah • Feb 15, 2021 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone, take two One of the most memorable breakout performances of the last few years was Lily Gladstone in Kelly Reichardt’s 2016 film, Certain Women. She is quietly devastating in that film, and I have not forgotten her since. Gladstone is one of a handful of actors whose IMDB pages I check By Sarah • Feb 12, 2021 10:46 am
TV Updates Queen Jodie (in the dark) As we learned last year, Jodie Turner-Smith is playing Anne Boleyn in a new prestige drama series about the doomed queen’s downfall. We’ve seen her on set in the headpieces, but now we have our first official still of JTS as Anne and, well, it’s not By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:53 am
Dumbass More like Cara DONE Over the last decade, Gina Carano successfully segued from a career as an MMA fighter to a career as an actor, finding mainstream success in action movies before hitting the jackpot by landing a role in The Mandalorian, as ex-Rebel soldier Cara Dune. Carano had it made. She was By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Robin Wright’s Land Robin Wright makes her feature directorial debut with Land, a film centered on Edee (Wright), a woman in obvious pain. She begins the film in therapy and very quickly exits modern life in Chicago for a remote one-room cabin in Wyoming on the border of the Shoshone National Forest. By Sarah • Feb 10, 2021 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah One of the great films of the 21st century is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a film that unpicks a major piece of American folklore by focusing on the grubworm who betrayed a beloved but largely fictionalized figure in Americana. Shaka King’s Judas and By Sarah • Feb 10, 2021 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Minari: Portrait of an American Family Lee Isaac Chung’s delicate family drama, Minari, follows a Korean-American family—immigrant parents, American-born children—as they attempt to find their slice of the American dream on a farm in rural Arkansas. Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun) dreams of having a “garden” of his own and moves his By Sarah • Feb 09, 2021 03:49 pm
TV Updates WandaVision gets to the point Spoilers through episode 5 of WandaVision In my review of the first two episodes of WandaVision, I said the show got off to a slow start and a lot of people argued with me (which happens whenever you say anything less than positive about Marvel online). Listen, I, too, enjoy By Sarah • Feb 09, 2021 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews F9: The Return of Han F9 first began advertising in January 2020 for what was supposed to be a May 2020 release date, only to get pushed back multiple times due to the pandemic. Currently, it is slated to come out on May 28, but the Super Bowl TV spot ends with “In theaters soon” By Sarah • Feb 08, 2021 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zamunda knows about Wakanda I was expecting WAY more streaming service advertisements during the Super Bowl. We’re all still stuck at home and movies aren’t coming out any time soon, so I thought the streamers would go all-in on advertising their wares for post-game viewing (or mid-game viewing if By Sarah • Feb 08, 2021 01:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Falcon and the Winter Soldier are in couples’ therapy The first teaser we saw for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the one-time kick-off event for the MCU on Disney+, came one year ago during the 2020 Super Bowl. Then COVID-19 hit, and FWS was unable to complete production before the March shutdown of all things. By Sarah • Feb 08, 2021 10:40 am
