Movie Reviews and Previews A Secret Love is a tender portrait of queer romance Here’s my review of A Secret Love, a new Netflix documentary about the seven-decade relationship, most of which was spent in the closet, between Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel: I started crying less than three minutes in and I didn’t stop crying until ten minutes after it ended. By Sarah • May 01, 2020 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen’s Encino Man goes to HBO Max Seth Rogen’s next film, An American Pickle, is about a turn-of-the-last-century immigrant who accidentally gets pickled and preserved before being restored to life in the present day. So basically, it’s Encino Man, but with a pickled immigrant instead of a frozen caveman and much less shirtless peak Brendan By Sarah • Apr 29, 2020 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oh sit down, AMC Universal was early to the emergency digital release game, pushing their previously released films, like The Invisible Man and The Hunt, onto premium on demand within the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown. They also were the first studio to decide to bypass a theatrical release for a big-budget film By Sarah • Apr 29, 2020 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth in Extraction Early in his Hollywood career, Chris Hemsworth tried to be the kind of action-fueled star we had much of in the 1980s and 1990s, but audiences were indifferent. Then he activated his comedy gene, and for the last few years, we’ve known Hemsworth best as an action-comedy guy—even By Sarah • Apr 28, 2020 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daisy Ridley’s next job Daisy Ridley has booked her next job, for whenever productions resume. This is notable, because over the years and various Star Wars press tours, Ridley has often talked about not having jobs lined up outside Star Wars in a way that is sort of joking but also sort of serious: By Sarah • Apr 28, 2020 11:18 am
Gossip Nostalgia Endgame, one year later Sunday is the one year anniversary of Avengers: Endgame. People, including Lainey, have been In Their Feelings about the Avengers recently, starting earlier this month with that viral thread of audience reactions to some of Endgame’s biggest moments, and more recently with #IfTonyStarkWereInCharge trending on Twitter. We’re missing By Sarah • Apr 24, 2020 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Best Chris is The Saint Default Best Chris Pine has a new project on the horizon. He will star in a reboot of The Saint for Paramount, taking on the role of Simon Templar previously played by Roger Moore and Val Kilmer. I LOVED the Val Kilmer movie in the 1990s, and in the spirit By Sarah • Apr 22, 2020 10:28 am
TV Updates Friends will wait to reunite This week, WarnerMedia announced that HBO Max, their proprietary streaming platform, will launch on May 27. However, not unlike Peacock missing the summer Olympics, HBO Max will launch without a signature piece of programming: the Friends reunion. Like so many other projects, the Friends reunion is caught up in the By Sarah • Apr 22, 2020 09:48 am
TV Updates What’s on Peacock Last week the new streaming platform Peacock opted for a soft launch with an exclusive, VIP guest list of Comcast Xfinity subscribers getting access to their platform first. The rest of us sloppy-mouthed plebes will get to check out Peacock on July 15, but thanks to the worldwide disruption of By Sarah • Apr 21, 2020 03:02 pm
SD Recommendations What not to watch during self-quarantine I’ve made a couple rounds of recommendations of things to watch while self-quarantined, but with several more weeks of lockdown to go—at least—I’m starting to worry about our screen time. As in, I cannot possibly be the only person who’s had to shut off the By Sarah • Apr 20, 2020 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s would-be dream project is here Dolittle came out THIS YEAR. It feels like I saw it forever and a day ago, but no, it was just January. Just three months ago. Dolittle is recent. It’s also bad, which is why I bring it up. I want you to remember Dolittle, remember that it is By Sarah • Apr 17, 2020 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Remember Tom Hardy?! This was Lainey’s email subject to me after the first trailer for Capone, starring Tom Hardy, dropped yesterday. It’s a been a minute since we’ve seen Hardy, he was last on cinema screens in Venom in 2018, and his only 2019 credit is one episode of Peaky By Sarah • Apr 16, 2020 10:55 am
Business of Hollywood Sam Raimi officially returns to Marvel Marvel director drama has become somewhat commonplace. Marvel does try to satisfy the filmmakers that work with them, but Marvel is also a big corporate machine, and sometimes those interests outweigh the filmmaker’s interests. Most recently, this happened with Scott Derrickson and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. By Sarah • Apr 15, 2020 03:03 pm
TV Updates Hannah Gadsby returns Hannah Gadsby’s extraordinary not-comedy special, Nanette, was one of the stand-out pop cultural moments of 2018. Now, two years after “quitting” comedy via Nanette, Gadsby returns with another one-woman show, this time titled Douglas (after her dog). Douglas ran off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater last year, and many By Sarah • Apr 14, 2020 03:27 pm
Business of Hollywood Bob Iger is back in charge In February, Bob Iger, then-CEO of Disney, dropped a bombshell on the business and entertainment worlds when he announced he was stepping down from his post at Disney. He would be the “Executive Chairman” while Bob Chapek, formerly head of parks—insert Succession joke here—became CEO. Well now, as By Sarah • Apr 14, 2020 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney is finally remaking Robin Hood It was inevitable, really. With the success of the live-action (“live-action”) remakes, of course Disney would eventually get around to remaking Robin Hood. It’s not as widely beloved as past hits like The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella, but Robin Hood has a solid cult following, By Sarah • Apr 13, 2020 03:22 pm
