Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s Cherry Since the Oscars expanded eligibility for Our Plague Year: 2020, we are now getting a rash of new year movies to meet the extended February deadline. Malcolm & Marie is one of these movies, and now we have a teaser for Cherry, starring Tom Holland. It’s a Zendalland reunion! By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lucy-Desi casting curse Back in 2015, which was both five years ago and a hundred years ago, we learned that Aaron Sorkin was writing a biopic of Lucille Ball which would star Cate Blanchett. Now Sorkin is finally realizing the project, though it will no longer star Blanchett. Titled Being the Ricardos, the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Deadpool brings its R rating to the MCU When Disney swallowed Fox whole almost two years ago, there were many questions about what it would mean for the industry, for the library of Fox films, and other business things. What nerds cared about, though, was what would happen to the X-Men, especially Deadpool, since he is 1) By Sarah • Jan 12, 2021 10:37 am
TV Updates Search Party is back! It feels VERY weird to write about anything else right now, let alone a trailer for a TV show, but you know, life goes on, I guess. I mean, armed insurrections stormed the US capitol yesterday, Congress had to be evacuated, someone died, and now…everything is normal again? Very By Sarah • Jan 07, 2021 01:36 pm
TV Updates The History of Swear Words: 2021’s first disappointment I had such hopes. The History of Swear Words looked like the right combination of interesting and funny, and while the full series is sort of interesting, it is not very funny. And worse, pursuit of jokes actually makes it less interesting. The series, directed by Christopher D’Elia—not By Sarah • Jan 07, 2021 11:40 am
TV Updates WandaVision’s song(s) WandaVision drops next week on Disney+, which will officially begin the Marvel era on the streaming platform (and then we’ll get to find out how much that is worth to new subscribers). Ahead of the premiere, Marvel released another trailer for the series, teasing Wanda Maximoff and Vision’s By Sarah • Jan 05, 2021 02:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is there Batman drama? I mean, MORE Batman drama, since we know DC Films intends to have many Batmen running around, which provides its own, unique flavor of drama. But THIS Batman drama pertains to Robert Pattinson and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which is, maybe, not going so hot. Consider the source with a By Sarah • Jan 04, 2021 12:30 pm
Ranking the textiles and prints of Bridgerton One of my favorite things about historical adaptations are the clothes and interior design. I have zero desire to cosplay the past, but I love an elaborate ball gown and a bold wallpaper print (I wallpapered my living room ceiling and never looked back). Bridgerton is not entirely grounded in By Sarah • Dec 30, 2020 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A Study in Bridgerton Blue If you missed previous Bridgerton installments, a review of the series is here and a ranking of the Bridgerton boys is here. Bridgerton is a very pretty show to look at, the overall art design rooted in history but with a touch of whimsy that brings out the romantic fantasy By Sarah • Dec 29, 2020 01:06 pm
Ben Affleck All Batman, all the time Today in But Why Though? news, Walter Hamada, the president of DC Films, told The New York Times that the new game plan for DC Films going forward will include TWO Batman franchises featuring two different Batmen. One will be Robert Pattinson, existing on one alternate Earth, and the other, By Sarah • Dec 29, 2020 11:03 am
Ranking the Bridgerton boys Now that you’ve had time to spend with the ton over Christmas weekend (my review was posted last week, including my thoughts on That Scene – catch up on it here), we can get down to the important work of deciding which Bridgerton boy is the best Bridgerton boy. Not By Sarah • Dec 28, 2020 12:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman Nineteen Eighty-Ugh Well, this is disappointing. After a terrific opening sequence in Themyscira, once again featuring Lilly Aspell as the young Diana, Wonder Woman 1984 just disintegrates. The problems all stem from the script, written by Patty Jenkins, who also directed, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham, though I’m not here to By Sarah • Dec 28, 2020 10:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Soul is a love letter to teachers that will probably bore your kids Soul is Pixar’s latest existential film about the meaning of life, this time told from the almost-afterlife. Co-written and co-directed by Pixar impresario Pete Docter and Kemp Powers (who also adapted his own play for the screen in One Night in Miami), with a script assist By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Eddie and Arsenio (and Eddie and Arsenio) are back One of the casualties of the 2020 movie season was Coming 2 America, which Paramount took off their release calendar, then sold to Amazon. Now, however, Coming 2 America is finally coming to the world as an Amazon release in March 2021. The first trailer has dropped and it’s By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews News of the World is the dad movie of 2020 In News of the World, Tom Hanks stars as the extravagantly named Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a world-weary Civil War veteran who is atoning for his Confederate past by attempting to bring frontier communities together through the power of stories. In 1870, Kidd crisscrosses Texas to read the news By Sarah • Dec 23, 2020 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and Felicity Jones in The Midnight Sky George Clooney’s latest feature film is The Midnight Sky, an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning, Midnight. Clooney stars as Augustine Lofthouse, a scientist at an Arctic outpost when some cataclysmic event occurs which forces everyone to evacuate the facility. It is hinted at being nuclear By Sarah • Dec 22, 2020 01:50 pm
