TV Updates Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas Two years after her not-comedy special Nanette made her a household name, Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas, a stand-up special/one-woman show/glorified Ted Talk/lecture—whatever you want to call it, she really does not care. Gadsby herself compares the arc of Douglas to a romantic comedy in By Sarah • May 27, 2020 10:06 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani in The Lovebirds Once bound to premiere at SXSW followed by theatrical distribution, The Lovebirds, a romantic comedy starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani, instead dropped on Netflix over the weekend (where it trended in the US’s Top 10). Honestly, Netflix feels like the right place for this movie, a slight but By Sarah • May 25, 2020 12:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize finally admits she’s immortal You MIGHT say that this is just a trailer for Charlize Theron’s next movie, The Old Guard, a comic book movie about a small group of immortal badasses who kick major ass. You might ALSO say that Highlander is just a movie, and not, in fact, an instructional manual By Sarah • May 22, 2020 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet reveals itself as its release date becomes questionable A new trailer for Tenet dropped last night, released first inside Fortnite, because when I think “Christopher Nolan”, I totally think “e-sports”. Lainey pointed out that there is probably some overlap between Nolan, Batman fans, and online gaming, and dropping a trailer in Fortnite is a way to engage that By Sarah • May 22, 2020 10:59 am
TV Updates The Great: The Power of Gossip, the Power of Sex – and Teen Princess! Tony McNamara, Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Favourite, is back with another anachronistic tale of a woman in power. This time he focuses on Russia’s Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning), in a Hulu series titled The Great. It’s not as dark as The Favourite, and overall has a tone By Sarah • May 21, 2020 02:37 pm
TV Updates The Stand arrives at the best-worst moment One of Stephen King’s most enduring novels is The Stand, a book about humanity attempting to rebuild—or just go full-end times—after 99% of the population is wiped out by a virus. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest earlier this year, people immediately leapt to The Stand, By Sarah • May 21, 2020 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Welp, the Snyder Cut is happening after all I admit it: I was wrong. The fabled “Snyder Cut”, Zack Snyder’s director cut of Justice League is actually being released, expected to drop on HBOMax in 2021 after years of toxic fan bitching. I did not think it would happen for many reasons, but following a regime change By Sarah • May 20, 2020 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry’s Geostorm Geostorm (GEOSTOOOOOOORM) is one of the great dumb movies of the 2010s—maybe THE great dumb movie of the 2010s—but if you’ve ever said to yourself, “What I’d REALLY like is Geostorm but with a hot lady,” then boy, have I got the movie for you. Halle By Sarah • May 20, 2020 11:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pitch Perfect but for Eurovision Eurovision, the delightful annual summit that pits (mostly) European countries against each other in a bonkers singing competition, was cancelled earlier this year, along with basically everything else, due to the pandemic. I love anything that is countries competing against each other, and I firmly believe all geopolitical issues should By Sarah • May 19, 2020 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2: Who cares? Lainey asked me this question—who cares about the Avatar sequels? It is the eternal debate of Avatar, how big is it REALLY, when it left no cultural footprint? Sure, it’s the second biggest movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation), and it was a technological marvel when By Sarah • May 15, 2020 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Capone There is a line between “good” and “bad” where quantifiable binary judgments don’t matter because the thing itself is so interesting. Great filmmakers like David Lynch and David Cronenberg frequently walk this line, creating works that are unpleasant, indecipherable, possibly in bad taste and yet are captivating regardless of By Sarah • May 14, 2020 10:56 am
Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson cooks the worst quarantine meal in history for GQ With potential summer movie savior Tenet still due in July (when some theaters will be open at a fraction of their capacity, good luck, Tenet), Robert Pattinson is doing promotion for the movie from quarantine. He covers GQ this month as “The King of Quarantine” and his profile is titled By Sarah • May 13, 2020 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The failed legacy of The Rise of Skywalker SPOILERS With Star War: The Rise of Skywalker hitting Disney+, and since it’s May the 4th week, it is time now to revisit The Rise of Skywalker, a movie that is not even five months old and already aging poorly. At first watch, TROS is an uneven movie that By Sarah • May 07, 2020 03:14 pm
TV Updates Space Farce Remember 50 million years ago when Trump created “Space Force”, the intergalactic branch of the Air Force that will patrol space or something, I don’t know, f-ck it was so long ago and so stupid and this whole thing is making me insane and if we get four more By Sarah • May 06, 2020 11:18 am
TV Updates Of course Nicolas Cage will play Joe Exotic Ever since Tiger King aired, people have been fantasy-casting the inevitable narrative adaptation of the show. We already had one project in the works, based on the Wondery podcast, starring Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin. There is now a second project officially on the go, this one technically deriving from By Sarah • May 05, 2020 12:37 pm
Star Wars Taika’s inevitable Star War After winning his Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi shot down reports that he was in talks with Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars movie. Well guess what? Taika Waititi is now making a Star Wars movie. There is zero information about this film except that he will co-write it By Sarah • May 05, 2020 10:03 am
