TV Updates Jodie Turner-Smith is an Elf The Witcher is one of the most popular original shows on Netflix (thanks to that audience metric that requires you only watch two minutes of a thing to count as a “view”), so it’s no surprise a prequel spin-off is coming. Described as a six-episode limited series, By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Let Godzilla and Kong fight Amidst all the spring blockbusters moving back to the fall, we are guaranteed one big movie to watch (at home): Godzilla vs Kong, which will premiere in whatever theaters are open and on HBO Max on March 26. Sure, everyone hates Warner Brothers now, a bunch of their creative partners By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 12:07 pm
Star Wars The Return of Toxic Fandom and #IStandWithKrystina Over the weekend you may have noticed a hashtag trending, #IStandWithKrystina, and wondered, “Is this some Star Wars sh-t?” The answer is yes, it is some Star Wars sh-t as the most infamous toxic fandom in the land reared its ugly head once again, this time coming for By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 10:26 am
TV Updates An ode to WandaVision’s mid-century kitchen I am, thus far, a bit frustrated with WandaVision. We are now three episodes in and the central conceit—Wanda and Vision are settling down in suburbia, but Something Is Wrong—has not advanced since episode one. Sure, things happen, but the things that happen are just reinforcing the central By Sarah • Jan 25, 2021 03:39 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton will be back! In today’s most unsurprising news, Bridgerton, one of Netflix’s biggest original hits of all time, has been renewed for a second season. https://twitter.com/bridgerton/status/1352277273752305665 As the first season followed the plot of the first book in Julia Quinn’s “Bridgerton” series, so to the By Sarah • Jan 22, 2021 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No blockbusters any time soon Last week came the rumor that No Time to Die, the Bond film that started the chain reaction of shifting release dates last year, would move once again from its April 2021 release date. Well, it’s happened, and No Time to Die has moved to October 8, 2021, which By Sarah • Jan 22, 2021 09:42 am
Top Reads Madame Vice President I will never forget the day after election day in 2016, and the utter, eerie silence on the L as I rode into work. My emotional shock that day was not just about the disbelief that Trump actually won, that he was going to be the actual president of the By Sarah • Jan 21, 2021 11:47 am
Top Reads Inauguration Day in America (a spark of hope) Inauguration Day marks the end of my trilogy on the 2021 American election. This election has been marred by lies, conspiracies, and armed insurrection, so I have never really relaxed even after the election was called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And I’m still not relaxed, even though By Sarah • Jan 21, 2021 09:41 am
TV Updates Search Party tries something new Spoilers Search Party is a show that is constantly reinventing itself. In season one, it was a biting observational comedy about sh-tty Millennials, season two found the sh-tty Millennials starring in a crime drama, and season three lampooned legal dramas as the sh-tty Millennials were charged with By Sarah • Jan 19, 2021 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendalland reunited On set, anyway. Tom Holland and Zendaya are working on Spider-Man 3 (version 2) and were photographed on set together. MJ appears to be working in a donut shop now, and there is fake snow falling. Are we in for another random Hallmark Christmas movie ending for a December By Sarah • Jan 19, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews WandaVision brings out the weird in Marvel WandaVision, Marvel Studio’s first foray into television—the Netflix shows don’t count, as they were produced by Marvel Entertainment—gives us our first taste of the MCU in over a year. And a weird taste it is, as we find Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen, FINALLY given something to By Sarah • Jan 18, 2021 01:33 pm
TV Updates Ethan Hawke is Oscar Isaac’s villain Ethan Hawke is a Gen X icon who has, like several of his Gen X peers, entered the “interesting character actor” phase of his career (see also: Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder). Even when I don’t love the end result of a particular film, Hawke’s recent performances are unfailingly By Sarah • Jan 18, 2021 12:52 pm
Business of Hollywood Ray Fisher lost his job The long-running saga of Ray Fisher and the toxic on-set culture of the Justice League reshoots overseen by Joss Whedon has come to an end, and it is an end many feared: Ray Fisher lost his job as Cyborg in the DC extended universe. There was always anxiety By Sarah • Jan 15, 2021 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cap is back This week in Yeah, We Figured news, Chris Evans is reportedly returning to the MCU as Captain America. Deadline calls it “a move sure to rock the Marvel Cinematic Universe”, as if we didn’t all just assume this would happen eventually Bitch, have you ever seen a Marvel movie? By Sarah • Jan 15, 2021 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Netflix dunks on everybody Yesterday Netflix released a video promoting their 2021 films and it’s the video equivalent of screaming, “I am a golden god!” and diving into a pool from the roof of a three-story house. Netflix is taking a victory lap before anyone else even lined up for the race. By Sarah • Jan 13, 2021 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All the blockbusters are delaying again 2020 will be remembered as the year without blockbusters, but the way things are looking, 2021 is going to be more of the same. Earlier this week, Morbius delayed its release date, again, from March 19 to October 8 (honestly, October is a much friendlier month for a vampire-themed By Sarah • Jan 13, 2021 10:09 am
