TV Updates WandaVision gets its close up In anticipation of its premiere on Disney+ later this winter, WandaVision covers Entertainment Weekly. Even though the profile bills EW’s access as “unprecedented”—there have been Marvel set visits before—this is a pretty standard cover feature for Marvel. They give away tidbits but hardly illuminate the whole project By Sarah • Nov 10, 2020 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Happiest Season has a SPECTACULAR house One thing we still have to look forward to this year is the holiday rom-com Happiest Season, starring Mackenzie Davis and Superior Hollywood (K)ris, Kristen Stewart. I was already looking forward to this film as an escapist delight this holiday season, and now that I am (mostly) unclenched, By Sarah • Nov 10, 2020 12:06 pm
Top Reads Johnny Depp leaves Fantastic Beasts The election dominated the news last week—as it should—but one thing did manage to crack the all-encompassing vote watch on Friday, and no, it was not chartthrob Steve Kornacki and his big board. It was a statement issued by Johnny Depp, that he has been asked to By Sarah • Nov 09, 2020 11:00 am
Kamala Harris Election weekend in America (one perfect day) Last week, I wrote about the rather dismal mood in America on election night. On Saturday, though, we got a break, or, those of us who voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got a break, anyway. The election was called for Joe Biden on Saturday, and it turned into By Sarah • Nov 09, 2020 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet goes home In the US, Tenet was released on September 3. Yesterday, Warner Brothers announced it will be available for home video and on demand on December 15. That is 15 weeks of theatrically exclusive play. All the niceties have been observed, Warner Brothers flushed one of their most valuable 2020 titles By Sarah • Nov 06, 2020 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Star Wars Holiday Special Redux The 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the most notoriously bad things to ever exist. It’s so terrible George Lucas attempted to wipe it off the face of the earth, but copies remained in the wild, circulating through garage sales (which is where I first found it) By Sarah • Nov 06, 2020 10:47 am
Election night in America (everything sucks) It’s the morning after election night in America, and the race is too close to call. Everyone said to expect that, but there is still something particularly demoralizing about it. I guess I just hoped more people would outright reject the cruelty of the last four years, but then, By Sarah • Nov 04, 2020 09:17 am
TV Updates Lady Whistledown is our holiday obsession Over the last few years, Netflix has started debuting series designed for bingeing during the holidays. It started with Making a Murderer, and last year it was The Witcher, and this year’s holiday binge is Bridgerton, the first show from Shondaland on Netflix. It’s an adaptation of Julia By Sarah • Nov 02, 2020 01:00 pm
TV Updates The Mandalorian returns The Mandalorian returned on Friday, bringing us back to the world of Din Djarin and Baby Yoda (who remains almost unbearably cute). The first season was a simple delight, and while I continue to have reservations about this show going too deep into Star Wars lore—which it doesn’t By Sarah • Nov 02, 2020 10:52 am
TV Updates The Crown: Girl Power! A couple of weeks ago we saw a teaser for The Crown season four, which promised Diana Drama! and only hinted at Gillian Anderson’s turn as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Well, the full trailer dropped yesterday, and it is a much more even-handed preview of the season, balancing By Sarah • Oct 30, 2020 11:08 am
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen’s Gambit There is a certain type of character who appears in television shows, you know her when you see her: a lead character, pretty, almost always white, and the object of every other character’s fascination and sexual desire. She is interesting! So charming! A marvel! The show will insist this By Sarah • Oct 29, 2020 02:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece, Memories of Murder, returns in gorgeous, ghastly 4K (Lainey: A Halloween recommendation that isn’t Hocus Pocus or Practical Magic…) Bong Joon-ho’s sophomore film, Memories of Murder, is a masterpiece of the crime drama genre, and is arguably still Bong’s finest film to date. Loosely based on the Hwaseong serial murders—South Korea’s first By Sarah • Oct 28, 2020 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rashida Jones and Bill Murray in On the Rocks On the Rocks, the latest from Sofia Coppola, is a dapper, dreamy dramedy dressed up like a mystery. Laura (Rashida Jones) is an author, struggling with her latest book as she tries to balance her artistic life and her home life with two young daughters and a husband who is By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney’s big Oscar beard Netflix is basically the only studio that has managed to get movies out with any consistency this year, and their train keeps rolling with the first trailer for George Clooney’s new sci-fi film, The Midnight Sky. It’s an end-of-the-world/space movie, with Clooney playing By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 12:32 pm
TV Updates Oscar Isaac is the latest Marvel hire Yesterday, “Moon Knight” started trending on social media, which I figured was either something to do with Marvel, or NASA had announced the intention of forming a band of chivalrous knights to patrol the moon against possible moon monsters (anything feels possible these days). Fortunately, it was the former and By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Totally Under Control will ENRAGE you Alex Gibney is a very good documentarian who made his name with Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Gibney’s bread and butter is making documentaries about political or political-adjacent figures doing dirty deeds in the back room (see also: Casino Jack and the United States of Money) By Sarah • Oct 26, 2020 10:39 am
