Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell: More Bat-Villains The main cast for Matt Reeves’ The Batman is rounding out, with Colin Farrell added to the list of names on the villain call sheet. He is in talks to play the Penguin, joining Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Paul Dano as the Riddler. (Andy Serkis is also in talks By Sarah • Nov 06, 2019 11:47 am
Jenny Slate Jenny Slate’s Stage Fright Jenny Slate’s first stand-up special, Stage Fright, is not going to work for you if you don’t like Jenny Slate. A traditional stand-up set combined with a personal mini-documentary about Slate’s life, Stage Fright is maximum Jenny Slate from every direction. If you’ve ever seen (or By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Apple TV+ enters award season Yesterday the first trailer for The Banker dropped. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie as a pair of would-be bankers who, because of racial prejudice, train a white guy (Nicholas Hoult) to stand in for them as the owner of their bank, so it’s BlacKkKlansman for By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in The King What is the point of Shakespeare without Shakespeare? This question is central to David Michôd’s The King, which tells the story of Henry V of England, a story canonized in English literature by Shakespeare’s Henry Cycle of plays. There are other great warrior-kings of England that Shakespeare did By Sarah • Nov 04, 2019 02:43 pm
TV Updates Watchmen piles it on There are many unanswered questions and mysterious premises in Watchmen, but one thing we can say for certain about this show is that it is super into Doctor Manhattan’s big blue dick. Last episode it was Adrian Veidt making his clone-slave hang dong in his play about Manhattan, and By Sarah • Nov 04, 2019 01:12 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: Who ARE these people? Watchmen, like Game of Thrones, invites theorizing. We’re two episodes in and this is already a richly detailed world, with big plot setups and seemingly minor background information that may or may not end up being relevant. Unlike Game of Thrones, however, book readers don’t really have an By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Linda Hamilton returns in Terminator: Dark Fate The Terminator franchise gets back on track with Terminator: Dark Fate, which brings back original star Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, and sees James Cameron return as a producer. Terminator: Dark Fate is a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and just by continuing the story of Sarah Connor, By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 12:08 pm
TV Updates Henry Cavill is unsexy in The Witcher Netflix’s attempt at creating their own Game of Thrones is the Henry Cavill fantasy drama, The Witcher. The first trailer left me a little cold, because while the visuals are good, Cavill is not the most engaging presence and they barely let him, the main character, speak. Now we By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 10:47 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones’ bad week continues Okay, it’s not precisely Game of Thrones’ fault that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss left their Star Wars trilogy. But even if it’s not a direct impact on GOT itself, that event does contribute to the overall tainting of GOT’s legacy, which is still muddied By Sarah • Oct 30, 2019 09:01 am
Books Entertainment Self-Care: Super Soft Reading After a self-care break of my own, we are back with new entertainment self-care recommendations , because we all need a goddamn mental vacation every now and then. This time, we’ve got reading recommendations for you, and yes, my break entailed re-reading a lot of romance novels. That’s our By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 03:49 pm
TV Updates Modern Love: Not all romance is created equal Amazon’s new anthology Modern Love takes some of the most memorable essays from the New York Times column of the same name and adapts them into charming little vignettes about love in the big city. Or, well, most of them are charming. One is a straight up nightmare. We’ By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benioff & Weiss abandoned their Star War David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, showrunners of Game of Thrones, have left their planned Star Wars trilogy because they are just too dang busy. Last night news broke that Benioff and Weiss have split with Lucasfilm, and statements came from both Benioff and Weiss, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 12:06 pm
TV Updates Watchmen introduces the closet skeletons Spoilers The second episode of Watchmen, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”, deepens our understanding of this alternate America, while setting up the mystery of the show: Who is Will, and, Who is Angela, really? Building off the first episode, “Horsemanship” is also directed by Nicole Kassell, and it answers a By Sarah • Oct 28, 2019 02:24 pm
Break Ups Could Marvel dump Jeremy Renner? Jeremy Renner has had A Year. It started with rumors of a romance with Lady Gaga—which did not materialize, but I would like to visit the alternate universe where Jeremy Renner/Lady Gaga and Brad Pitt/Charlize Theron happened—and then he released his completely mediocre karaoke album, and By Sarah • Oct 28, 2019 11:40 am
TV Updates Anticipating Watchmen In the wake of Game of Thrones, we’re all looking for the next Game of Thrones. I don’t think there will ever be a television show as culturally dominant as GOT again, but we’ve got some contenders for your new weekly obsession. Succession is all family drama By Sarah • Oct 25, 2019 03:58 pm
Douchebags Hero of the Week: Kelly Bachman You may have heard that Harvey Weinstein poked his head above the surface of his slime pool the other day, attending a performance event in New York called Actor’s Hour. At this event, billed as “the first pop-up speakeasy dedicated to artists”, comedian Kelly Bachman threw off her cloak, By Sarah • Oct 25, 2019 09:22 am
