TV Updates McMillions now has a charismatic fugitive HBO’s true-crime docuseries McMillions is winding down, with the final episode airing next Monday, so now is a good time to check in on Agent Doug Bazooka and the other, considerably less colorful, characters of the McDonald’s Monopoly scam (the extended Colombo family can front all they want, By Sarah • Mar 06, 2020 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in The Way Back In 2016, Ben Affleck and director Gavin O’Connor made a dumb-fun action movie called The Accountant. Now, they have reunited for a new film. Is it a sequel to The Accountant? No. Do I wish it was a sequel to The Accountant? Yes. (Will there ever be a sequel By Sarah • Mar 06, 2020 12:12 pm
TV Updates Taika takes on more Is anyone busier right now than Taika Waititi? Just a couple weeks ago, we learned he had signed on to produce and direct, at least in part, a Showtime series starring Jude Law. That’s on top of the soccer movie, Next Goal Wins, he has due later this year, By Sarah • Mar 05, 2020 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elisabeth Moss in The Invisible Man Horror movies have a long history of exploiting feminine fear, but some horror movies take it a step further and are about feminine fear. Leigh Whannell’s update to The Invisible Man, repurposing what was supposed to be a Johnny Depp blockbuster as a low-budget genre piece, is one such By Sarah • Mar 04, 2020 03:04 pm
Ali Wong Netflix flexes their comedy power Netflix has done many things to the entertainment industry over the last decade, from creating a new viewing model for audiences to drive award season spending even higher in pursuit of a Best Picture Oscar. But one thing they’ve done that we don’t talk about as much is By Sarah • Mar 02, 2020 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy in Emma. Music video director Autumn de Wilde (GREAT name) makes her feature film directorial debut with a luscious new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. This Emma is lavish, detailed, eye-poppingly gorgeous, and unapologetically sexy. There are butts! Between this and Sanditon, butts are all the rage in Austen adaptations. Emma. By Sarah • Feb 28, 2020 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Say his name Candyman legitimately terrified me when I was kid, to the extent that I white-knuckled a second viewing in a college folklore class ten years later, still as freaked out by it as the day I first saw it. I once threw a bottle of shampoo at a cabinmate at summer By Sarah • Feb 28, 2020 09:55 am
TV Updates Is this the Culkinaissance? Macaulay Culkin has become steadily more visible over the last couple years, most recently covering Esquire for no real reason except to let everyone know he is doing okay. Now, however, he has taken his biggest step back into the spotlight yet as he is joining American Hororr Story for By Sarah • Feb 27, 2020 10:14 am
Business of Hollywood Disney’s surprise shake-up Late yesterday afternoon, Disney dropped a bombshell when it was announced that CEO Bob Iger is stepping down immediately and will be replaced by Bob Chapek, chairman of Disney Parks, as the new CEO. First of all, this is real-life Sucession and the HEAD OF PARKS got the CEO gig— By Sarah • Feb 26, 2020 09:44 am
TV Updates Danai Gurira runs the show Danai Gurira joined The Walking Dead in its third season, before its particular brand of brutality grew tiresome. In the time since she joined the show, The Walking Dead’s popularity has peaked and waned, she’s gone on to be a fan-favorite character in the MCU, and she’s By Sarah • Feb 25, 2020 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ villain streak continues Ever since leaving Captain America behind, Chris Evans seems determined to shed the mantle of superhero by playing villains. His first role post-Cap was in Knives Out; sometime this year he has an Apple TV show about a dad whose son maybe killed a classmate, which isn’t exactly a By Sarah • Feb 25, 2020 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harrison Ford in The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild is another movie Disney inherited when they bought Fox, but this one they threw some effort into releasing. A family-friendly revision of Jack London’s novel fits The Call of the Wild into Disney’s wheelhouse, so they did not treat this movie like a By Sarah • Feb 24, 2020 03:54 pm
BFFs First Wives reunite The First Wives Club is superior cinema. On this, we can all agree. I know we can all agree because this morning I was emailing with Lainey and Emily, our site manager, and we’re all different ages, and yet, we all love The First Wives Club. It transcends generations, By Sarah • Feb 21, 2020 01:16 pm
Douchebags Like Trump has even seen Parasite Last night, Donald Trump held one of his creepy f-cking rallies in Colorado. During his speech, he took a shot at the Oscars and Parasite because, you know, they gave the top prize to a movie not in English, made by furriners, and that you have to READ on top By Sarah • Feb 21, 2020 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad suited up James Gunn’s not-a-reboot-but-not-really-a-sequel-either Suicide Squad movie is filming in Panama, which means set photos are emerging that show characters old and new suited up for their do-over. There are blurry shots of Margot Robbie sporting a new look as Harley Quinn, and she is joined by David Dastmalchian as By Sarah • Feb 20, 2020 11:36 am
TV Updates Are you obsessed with McMillions? I am OBSESSED with McMillions. I loved it two years ago when it was a dramatic long read on The Daily Beast, and now that it is a documentary series I adore it even more. In case you’ve been under a rock for the last few weeks, McMillions is By Sarah • Feb 20, 2020 10:11 am
