Movie Reviews and Previews Revisiting Romeo Must Die’s best fight scenes As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Romeo Must Die, let us not overlook the wonderful and, frankly, WEIRD fight scenes that make up this movie. The RMD fight scenes are equal parts martial arts and slapstick buffoonery, and most of them have completely insane setups. I know RMD came By Sarah • Mar 20, 2020 11:32 am
TV Updates Social Distancing Re-View: Castlevania Before they had a breakout hit in The Witcher, Netflix launched another medieval fantasy show about a grumpy monster hunter who swears a lot: Castlevania. With season three now streaming, it’s a great time to get into this series, which is animated in a style I describe as “faux By Sarah • Mar 19, 2020 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Romeo Must Die turns 20 There was a time, in the mid to late 1990s, when I would watch anything even tangentially related to Romeo and Juliet. No, this was not inspired by Romeo + Juliet, it was inspired by reading Romeo and Juliet in middle school (though when the movie came out just one year By Sarah • Mar 19, 2020 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow gives up the ghost Of the spring/early summer film release, Black Widow was the last giant standing, but yesterday, Disney pulled the plug, shuffling Black Widow off its May 1 release date and making it, like everything else, TBD. There goes the summer kickoff. Disney has moved BLACK WIDOW from May 1, 2020 By Sarah • Mar 18, 2020 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cats does not deserve Razzies: A (sort of) Defence of Cats The Razzies, an annual “celebration” of the worst movies released in a year, a sort of anti-Oscars, if you will, were cancelled this year, just like everything else going on right now. Still, the Razzies announced their winners this week, and the most prizes went to Cats, no surprise, making By Sarah • Mar 17, 2020 04:27 pm
TV Updates Rona recs for your self-quarantine Since we’re all stuck inside for the next few weeks, we could indulge in personal reflection and growth, pursue creative endeavors, read all those books we’ve been meaning to get to… or we could just watch a lot of television. I have put together a list of bingeable By Sarah • Mar 16, 2020 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vin Diesel in Bloodshot Based on a character from Valiant Comics, Bloodshot is Vin Diesel’s latest attempt to bag a fantasy/sci-fi franchise where he gets to be the star and not just a talking tree. Diesel sincerely loves the fantasy genre, but he has not evolved past an eighth-grader’s appreciation for By Sarah • Mar 13, 2020 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Even more coronavirus cancellations At the beginning of the week, I was hopeful that the spreading coronavirus situation would not lead to social meltdown, that the cancellation of SXSW would be the worst side-effect we saw. I was so young then, so naïve. Social meltdown is here, and the parade of coronavirus-related cancellations continues. By Sarah • Mar 13, 2020 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Every movie release date should just be “?” As I am writing this, two more major studio releases have changed their release dates amid coronavirus fears. A Quiet Place II and The Lovebirds, which already lost out on its SXSW premiere, are both postponed indefinitely. They’ll come out eventually, but not for several months now, though if By Sarah • Mar 12, 2020 03:31 pm
Top Reads Rona Cancel Culture Are we going to die? And not because of the stupid virus! It’s the goddamn news ABOUT the virus that’s killing me. It’s SO MUCH. Last night, in the span of like, 15 MINUTES we learned the following: • The US is banning all travel from Europe for By Sarah • Mar 12, 2020 10:05 am
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel accused of workplace toxicity It is never surprising to me when I hear horror stories from behind the scenes of late-night talk shows. Diva guests, demanding bosses, frustrated writers cranking out dozens, if not hundreds, of jokes a day only to get nothing on air—a late night talk show is a particular stew By Sarah • Mar 11, 2020 10:36 am
TV Updates McMillions’ real legacy is the Colombo coffee order McMillions wrapped up last night with an episode recapping the outcome for the participants in the McDonald’s Monopoly fraud. The first part of the episode focuses on the fallout, and all the people affected by the scam. There is a little bit of feeling here, as some people involved By Sarah • Mar 10, 2020 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jungle Cruise: The African Queen for kids? The first trailer for Jungle Cruise left me merely whelmed. It came across as a knock-off of The Mummy (the good one), and I was not sold on the chemistry of Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson, or the lack of jokes in the trailer. This morning, however, we have a By Sarah • Mar 10, 2020 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow is still on track With the coronavirus wreaking havoc around the film industry, one of the biggest lingering questions is what happens to the film release calendar this year. (Again, acknowledging that this is not the most important part of this global story, just the part most relevant to what we cover on this By Sarah • Mar 09, 2020 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the film industry Look, I know this is not the most important part of the coronavirus story. Let’s just acknowledge that now and then talk about the myriad ways the coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the film industry, because it is having an unprecedented effect on the business right now. It wasn’ By Sarah • Mar 09, 2020 11:24 am
Ranking the Emmas With Autumn de Wilde’s luscious new adaption of Emma now in theaters—and expanding throughout March—I sat down to watch as many film and television adaptations of Emma as I could cram into a weekend in order to rank the Emmas. I discovered that there is no such By Sarah • Mar 06, 2020 03:22 pm
