Movie Reviews and Previews What Jared Leto will ruin next First he came for the Joker, then he came for Blade Runner, now Jared Leto has his sights set on ruining Tron as the long-gestating Tron 3 sees a little development happening. The latest news is that Lion director Garth Davis is on board to direct the feature, which By Sarah • Aug 11, 2020 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen in An American Pickle An American Pickle is a film about two lookalike relatives separated by a hundred years, who can’t resolve their generational differences. Like the main characters of Ben and Herschel Greenbaum (both played by Seth Rogen), An American Pickle is at war with itself and can’t quite overcome its By Sarah • Aug 10, 2020 03:03 pm
TV Updates Perry Mason rests Perry Mason wrapped up its first season last night, and the end result is as conflicted as Perry has been throughout these eight episodes. There is no eleventh hour miracle, no witness breaking down on the stand (“No one confesses on the stand,” Hamilton Burger intones with an implied eyeroll By Sarah • Aug 10, 2020 12:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A new Charlie Kaufman head trip Charlie Kaufman does not make what anyone could describe as “linear” films. His films, whether he’s writing them, like Adaptation., Being John Malkovich, or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or also directing them, like Synedoche, New York and Anomalisa, can best be described as “imaginative existential head trips” By Sarah • Aug 07, 2020 12:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Give Daniel Kaluuya an Oscar right now We have a long way to go to the Oscars, especially since eligibility has been extended through February 2021, but look. Just give Daniel Kaluuya the Best Actor Oscar right now. The teaser for Judas and the Black Messiah, in which Kaluuya plays Black Panther Party Chairman and Rainbow Coalition By Sarah • Aug 07, 2020 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Nia DaCosta’s Captain Marvel Here’s some good news, reports state that Nia DaCosta, director of the upcoming Candyman, will be directing Captain Marvel 2. This is a GREAT GET for Marvel. DaCosta fits into Marvel’s trend of hiring directors with a knack for characters, like Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who directed By Sarah • Aug 06, 2020 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 2020, the year women ruled film 2020 was set up to be a major year for women in film, with everything from high-profile blockbusters to award bait indies directed by women set to dominate the conversation all year. The original 2020 slate for blockbusters began in February, with Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey. Other By Sarah • Aug 06, 2020 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan shocker In an absolutely shocking move, Disney has announced it will make Mulan, one of the oft-delayed movies affected by COVID-19, available on September 4 via its streaming platform, Disney+. I literally did not think this was possible—no one did! Mulan cost a rumored $300 million to make By Sarah • Aug 05, 2020 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Remember a Real President and Weep Good morning, I’m crying. Why? Because of the trailer for The Way I See It, a documentary about former White House photographer Pete Souza and his time working for two (very different) presidents: Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Based on Souza’s bestselling book of the same name, The By Sarah • Aug 04, 2020 12:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Singing teen Lady Macbeth Between Hamilton and Six, the musical that imagines Henry VIII’s wives as a girl group, historical revisionism with songs is having a moment. Now, that moment is stretching into previously existing historical revisionism, in this case, Macbeth (already revisionist thanks to Shakespeare). Channing Tatum and Scooter Braun are partnering By Sarah • Jul 31, 2020 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s and Issa Rae’s scary sinkhole Jordan Peele and Issa Rae are partnering on a…I guess we’ll call it a supernatural thriller, called Sinkhole. They will co-produce the project, and Rae might star in it. Based on Leyna Krow’s short story of the same name, it’s about a couple who move By Sarah • Jul 30, 2020 11:36 am
TV Updates Welcome to Lovecraft Country HBO’s next big thing, they hope, is Lovecraft Country, a sci-fi/ horror/ adventure series based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name. It was developed by Underground’s Misha Green, and is produced by Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams. It has a lot going for it: By Sarah • Jul 29, 2020 02:25 pm
TV Updates The Best Show You’re Not Watching Remember when magazines used to blare the headline, The best show you’re not watching!? (Remember when magazines?) Back then, there was an idea that you could keep up with most, if not all, of the stuff on television, and “the best show you’re not watching” would be some By Sarah • Jul 28, 2020 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet is back on I feel like we’re playing street hockey and cars keep passing through and we’re yelling “game off” and “game on” more than we’re actually playing the game, but we might finally be at the end of the road with Tenet. A week after pulling it from the By Sarah • Jul 28, 2020 10:05 am
Charlize Theron Charlize Theron talks about being a badass On Friday afternoon, Charlize Theron did a Comic-Con @ Home conversation—I can’t call these panels, they’re just not a comparable experience to what Comic-Con usually is—titled “Evolution of a Badass”, about her career, specifically, as an action hero. I wrote recently about Theron’s interesting By Sarah • Jul 27, 2020 12:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu is Keanu, even remotely We know Keanu Reeves has earned his place as one of Hollywood’s most enduring, capital-letter, neon-lights Movie Stars. He’s done it through decades of work, starring in some of the most popular and beloved films of all time, and also by being an unfailing, utterly dependable By Sarah • Jul 27, 2020 10:18 am
