Jamie Foxx Quelle shock: Jamie Foxx returns to Spider-Man Among the detritus of the abandoned Amazing Spider-Man movies is Jamie Foxx’s turn as the villain Electro. Though I’ve only seen The Amazing Spider-Man 2 once, I don’t remember Foxx being the main problem with that movie—or even the second, third, or fourth problem By Sarah • Oct 02, 2020 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Kamala Khan After WandaVision, the next most interesting of the Marvel Disney+ projects is probably Ms. Marvel, which will introduce fan-favorite character Kamala Khan to the wider world. Yesterday, Deadline reported that Marvel has found their Kamala in newcomer Iman Vellani, putting another Canuck in the MCU. This will be Vellani’ By Sarah • Oct 01, 2020 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Yeun and Minari will break our hearts Since leaving The Walking Dead in 2016, Steven Yeun has been keeping very busy, appearing in TV shows like Twilight Zone and I Think You Should Leave, and doing voiceover work on everything ranging from Voltron to Trollhunters to Tuca & Bertie, in which sweet, sweet Speckle. On the film By Sarah • Sep 30, 2020 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Weirdoes unite, The Craft is back In the 1990s, The Craft was to Goth girls what Clueless was to popular girls: an acknowledgment that your fashion choices were totally legit, and that choker DOES look good on you. Also like Clueless, The Craft has maintained an affectionate nostalgia over the years, which is now being revisited By Sarah • Sep 30, 2020 12:27 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Barry Jenkins gets Disney money Yesterday, Disney made the surprise announcement that they are laying off 28,000 people due to the ongoing economic difficulties of the pandemic. Even with the theme parks open, with restrictions, of course, they are eating sh-t and continue to hemorrhage cash. These layoffs are just the latest round By Sarah • Sep 30, 2020 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love at 20 Today is the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong premiere of Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love. The film, which debuted in Cannes, made Tony Leung the festival’s Best Actor, the first Hong Kong actor so honored. In the Mood for Love is not exactly Wong’ By Sarah • Sep 29, 2020 02:59 pm
TV Updates First look at pre-princess Diana The Crown returns for its fourth season on November 15, and ahead of that, Netflix has released some images of the cast, including new members Emma Corrin as Lady Diana Spencer, and Gillian Anderson as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Everyone is in a rush to get to tall queen Elizabeth By Sarah • Sep 29, 2020 12:55 pm
Dumbass Eddie Redmayne sticks his foot in Eddie Redmayne is promoting The Trial of the Chicago 7, the upcoming Aaron Sorkin film and one of Netflix’s starriest Oscar hopefuls for the year. In the film, Redmayne portrays activist Tom Hayden, one of the defendants in the trial, and to promote the film, he gave an interview By Sarah • Sep 29, 2020 10:14 am
Faux Gossip Tom Cruise is Iron Man? Once upon a time, before Robert Downey, Jr. revived his career (again), some stuffed suits at Marvel wanted Tom Cruise to play Tony Stark. It’s become part of MCU lore, that it could have been Tom Cruise, in another universe. Well, since the MCU will soon be expanding into By Sarah • Sep 24, 2020 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney quits 2020 Doing the only reasonable thing at this point, Disney has basically given up on 2020, moving 90% of their movies to 2021, including the entire Marvel theatrical slate which will now kick off with Black Widow in May 2021. This brings Black Widow’s total delay to twelve entire months, By Sarah • Sep 24, 2020 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Water Man directed by David Oyelowo David Oyelowo made his feature directorial debut at TIFF with The Water Man, a kid-adventure story that is a little bit The Goonies, a little bit Stand By Me, and a lot The Bridge to Terabithia. Oyelowo sets a decent-sized task for himself, tackling not only an emotional By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Millie Bobby Brown is GREAT as Enola Holmes Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) is a spunky teenage detective whose resilience prevents her from being crushed by the social mores and expectations of Victorian England. When her eccentric mother (Helena Bonham Carter) disappears on her 16th birthday, Enola—who keeps reminding us her name is “alone” backwards—sets out By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Janelle Monae in Antebellum Holy hell, you guys. I thought I had seen the most bonkers twist of the year in Shadow in the Cloud, but then Antebellum came along and said, “Hold my ENTIRE KEG.” There will be SPOILERS because there is no way to discuss this film without getting into the big By Sarah • Sep 22, 2020 02:55 pm
TV Updates Justice for Wanda(Vision)! During the PandEmmys, Disney+ dropped a trailer for WandaVision, easily the most interesting of the upcoming MCU TV shows. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was supposed to be the first of the Disney+ Marvel series, but they only just resumed production this week after COVID shut them (and everyone By Sarah • Sep 22, 2020 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Another Round (Druk) Another Round reunites the Danish dream-team behind The Hunt: writer/director Thomas Vinterberg, screenwriter Tobias Lindholm, and actors Thomas Bo Larsen and Mads Mikkelsen for a middle-aged drinking buddies tale. It follows Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Lars Ranthe), and Nikolaj (Magnus Millang), four friends embarking on an By Sarah • Sep 18, 2020 03:05 pm
TV Updates Tatiana Maslany’s big role Despite another expected delay that could slide the MCU schedule back again, Marvel is still casting up their next round of projects. On the heels of casting Jonathan Majors as a supervillain, the latest heroine to enter the Marvel fold is Tatiana Maslany, who will headline the upcoming She-Hulk By Sarah • Sep 18, 2020 10:34 am
