Business of Hollywood The Oscars institute inclusion rules for Best Picture After years of #OscarsSoWhite trending basically every year during Oscar season since 2015, the Academy finally got sick of eating sh-t for the studios and have instituted a set of diversity rules for future Best Picture nominees. The rules will go into effect in 2024, for the 96th Academy By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RBattz tests positive? In March, production on The Batman shut down along with every other ongoing production as part of a worldwide coronavirus lockdown. They got back to work at the beginning of September, only to shut down again just days later after someone on set tested positive for COVID-19. Warner Brothers’ By Sarah • Sep 08, 2020 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan: A Bright, Heroic Epic For a New Generation The Disney live-action remakes have been a mixed bag so far. Some of the movies turn out good on their own merits, like Cinderella, and some are money grabs, like The Lion King, and some are just f-cking weird, like Beauty and the Beast (he was SH-TTING By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boys in the Band trailer Ryan Murphy is one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood. This year alone he has three films—assuming The Prom makes its December release date—and five television shows coming out. He has directed one of the movies, The Prom, and episodes for two of the television shows, Hollywood By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I’m Thinking of Ending Things is Charlie Kaufman’s Twilight Zone Charlie Kaufman’s latest film, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, is an existential pretzel, as all of Kaufman’s films are. The terrible existence of other people preoccupies Kaufman, and in Ending Things he presumes the worst of his protagonist in a most insidious way. Adapted by Kaufman from By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 11:43 am
Top Reads John Boyega GQ John Boyega covers the October issue of British GQ this month, talking about his impassioned speech at a London Black Lives Matter rally earlier this summer and his experience with Star Wars, now that he’s free and clear of the franchise and has had some time to reflect. Of By Sarah • Sep 02, 2020 01:37 pm
TV Updates Jamie Foxx returns to Netflix Last month, Project Power was, allegedly, one of the most popular titles on Netflix. That’s based on grading Netflix’s “Top Ten”, which are in turn opaque self-reported metrics no one outside the company can verify, so it is, at best, a guess. But it seems likely people By Sarah • Sep 02, 2020 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lingua Franca: An Intimate Portrait of a Trans Immigrant Experience Filipina filmmaker Isabel Sandoval’s third feature film is an intimate look into the private life of a trans Filipina immigrant. Written, directed, starring, and produced by Sandoval, herself a trans Filipina immigrant, Lingua Franca should not be mistaken as autobiography. The film is steeped in her experience, but Sandoval’ By Sarah • Sep 01, 2020 02:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill & Ted party on Almost thirty years since they last graced screens, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan return to cap off an unexpectedly wonderful trilogy about a couple of time-travelling doofuses who have to save the world. If you are not already a Bill & Ted fan, Bill & Ted By Sarah • Aug 31, 2020 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman leaves an unassailable legacy It is hard to think about the passing of Chadwick Boseman and not think about all that he never had time to do. At Howard University he earned a BFA in directing, and as a young playwright he received a Jeff Award nomination for New Work in 2006 for his By Sarah • Aug 31, 2020 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews About that Tenet review Over the next couple of weeks, new films will start rolling out in theaters in North America for the first time in five months (yes, I am wantonly disregarding the garbage exploitation film Unhinged, starring Russell Crowe, in this timeline). This means I should be going back to work as By Sarah • Aug 27, 2020 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Enola Holmes: A spunky teenaged detective! The first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming movie Enola Holmes has dropped, and while Henry Cavill is trending because people are thirsty, I am here for Millie Bobby Brown as a spunky teenaged detective. Based on Nancy Springer’s YA mystery series, Enola Holmes is about Sherlock Holmes’s younger By Sarah • Aug 25, 2020 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews THE Suicide Squad lines up for roll call The DC Fandome event gave us plenty of new trailers and teasers to goggle at, from wishful Wonder Woman to samesies Justice League to weirdo Goth Batman, but one of the more promising teasers comes from The Suicide Squad, James Gunn’s soft reboot of the 2016 Suicide Squad. Though By Sarah • Aug 25, 2020 12:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome back to the Justice League On Saturday, Warner Brothers hosted an online event called “DC Fandome” which is the 2020 virtual event stand-in for Comic-Con. It was okay! Watching Zoom calls is Not Fun, but it was a well-produced, 24 hour roll out of constant new footage/concept art/headlines for Warner By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Batman gets Goth and weird Matt Reeves’ The Batman was only filming for a couple months at the beginning of this year before it was shut down (and Robert Pattinson devoted his quarantine to nightmare-inducing Italian bakes), but that did not stop Reeves from debuting a trailer during DC’s Fandome event. The first By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 11:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s wishful thinking Here is the DC movie I am most excited to see, Wonder Woman 1984 dropped a new trailer during the DC Fandome event this weekend. It’s such a good time! Diana lassoing lightning? Awesome! Cheetah’s punk style? Cool! Steve Trevor doing a 1980s fashion montage? Fun! Wonder Woman By Sarah • Aug 24, 2020 09:53 am
