TV Updates Miracle Workers blesses 2020 with a third season Finally, 2020 has done something right and given us another season of a great show. Miracle Workers is a vastly underappreciated comedy series starring Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, and Lolly Adefope. The first season is about a group of angels trying to save Earth from a By Sarah • Oct 23, 2020 01:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran is Disney’s latest heroine It is a truth universally acknowledged that Kelly Marie Tran deserves way better than she got from her Star Wars experience. But what is done is done, and it’s onward and upward for Tran, who is the latest Disney heroine in Raya and the Last Dragon. The teaser dropped By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 12:23 pm
TV Updates GLOW actresses asked for better representation, and we won’t see it GLOW’s sudden cancellation due to COVID-19 means we won’t get to see the natural conclusion of the show, but now we are learning what else the cancellation is costing us. It turns out that in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the early summer, By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 11:11 am
Dumbass 2020 reaches new low, Jared Leto to return as the Joker Today in Oh What Now news, it has been reported that Jared Leto will reprise his role as the Joker for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Yes, you read that right, Jared Leto, once the third best Joker and now the fourth best Joker, is getting a do-over while By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Armie Hammer and Lily James in Rebecca Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is equal parts lavish and hollow, like a visit to a luxury department store—many fine goods are on display, but it’s just a bunch of f-cking handbags, Charlotte. Rebecca, already made to perfection by Alfred Hitchcock, tells By Sarah • Oct 21, 2020 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hide out this holiday season with Happiest Season Here’s a bit of holiday cheer: Happiest Season, the LGBTQ rom-com starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Dan Levy will premiere on Hulu November 25, one day before US Thanksgiving. So if you’re looking for something to watch while hiding from your family—no matter how the By Sarah • Oct 21, 2020 12:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad In just four years, Barry Jenkins has established his place among the very best of American filmmakers working today, so naturally he is hitting the next phase of his career, chiefly the blockbuster phase. He’s got a Disney project on the horizon, but first Jenkins will conquer television, directing By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was always going to be an award season contender, being a lavish adaptation of an August Wilson play produced by Denzel Washington and starring Viola Davis, but as it is now, sadly, Chadwick Boseman’s final performance, the film carries extra weight and expectations. The By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 10:35 am
TV Updates Dominic West might play Prince Charles in The Crown Look, I’m not here to cheer for the end of anyone’s marriage, but can we admit the Dominic West scandal is a good old-fashioned celebrity scandal and gods, how I have MISSED those! The initial story was a one-eyebrow-raise event, but then that bonkers photocall By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 09:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Radha Blank in The 40-Year-Old Version Radha Blank’s autobiographical film The 40-Year-Old Version is her feature film debut as a writer, director, and producer, and she also stars in the film as a fictionalized version of herself. Blank, a playwright, pulls from her New York theater roots for Version, a film about a By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 03:00 pm
Faux Gossip Sadly, Tatiana Maslany is NOT She-Hulk Last month, we heard that Tatiana Maslany would be headlining Marvel’s She-Hulk series on Disney+. But now, in an interview with The Sudbury Star, Maslany is setting the record straight. When asked by the interviewer, Ashley Martin, about everything she has going on including She-Hulk, Maslany replied, By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meek Mill in Charm City Kings Like Concrete Cowboy, Charmed City Kings is a fairly standard coming-of-age tale given new life thanks to a unique setting. Inspired by Lofty Nathan’s 2013 documentary, 12 O’Clock Boys, Charmed City Kings is set within the world of Baltimore dirt bike riders, renowned for their stunt By Sarah • Oct 16, 2020 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Sandler in Hubie Halloween Last year, while being interviewed by Howard Stern, Adam Sandler said if he didn’t get a Best Actor nomination for Uncut Gems, he would “come back and do one again that is so bad on purpose just to make you all pay”. Hubie Halloween is Sandler’s first film By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 04:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams and Glenn Close deserve Oscars, but NOT LIKE THIS I can count on one hand how many books I’ve abandoned mid-go, but Hillbilly Elegy is one of them. J.D. Vance’s self-selecting memoir about the “economic anxiety” of his Ohio hometown and Appalachian roots is a collection of personal anecdotes that repackage the myth of By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 12:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All the Spider-men are back Spider-Man 3 (version 2) is set to start filming this month—and may already be picking up shots in Queens, though Tom Holland is still working on the Uncharted movie—and with that comes another round of casting news, though this has not yet been backed up by the By Sarah • Oct 15, 2020 09:56 am
TV Updates Diana drama! Previously, I wondered if The Crown season four would really get smutty and dive into the glamour and gossip of the Diana Years. Well, the teaser for season four is out, and it is all drama, all the time. This teaser is HEAVY on Diana, juxtaposing the “fairy tale” of By Sarah • Oct 14, 2020 02:30 pm
