Movie Reviews and Previews The New Mutants still exist Comic-Con was cancelled this year, and in its place is “Comic-Con @ Home”, a series of pre-taped and Zoomed “panels” that, while decently robust given the last-minute nature of planning, is like a super-skinny version of the constant chaos that usually defines Comic-Con. One of By Sarah • Jul 24, 2020 12:37 pm
TV Updates Perry Mason will keep trying Perry Mason is in the back half of its eight-episode run, and turned into a decent hit for HBO, with eight million people viewing the premiere. Therefore, HBO has renewed the show for a second season, which means that Perry Mason will keep trying cases, and Perry Mason will By Sarah • Jul 23, 2020 03:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill & Ted will be SEEN! Bill & Ted Face the Music has already shuffled its release date because of the ongoing theater closures in North America, but when the teaser came out earlier this summer, I mentioned this movie could shift to a digital release, since it is relatively low-budget. Well, guess what? Bill By Sarah • Jul 23, 2020 12:54 pm
TV Updates Rub & Tug is revived, sans ScarJo A couple of years ago, Scarlett Johansson waded (again) into the waters of appropriation, intending to star in the movie Rub & Tug in the role of a trans man, Tex Gill, who ran a massage parlor empire in Pennsylvania in the 1970s (Tex Gill’s life sounds so cinematic) By Sarah • Jul 22, 2020 10:09 am
TV Updates Just give us the Dance of Dragons You know what? I don’t care how Game of Thrones ended, that show was f-cking rad. King Bran is stupid forever, but the rest of it rocks. I’ve been re-watching episodes (not all of them, because some are just too depressing/upsetting for the times), and By Sarah • Jul 21, 2020 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet is dateless Yesterday, the inevitable happened and after a month of hop-scotching release dates, Tenet was pulled from Warner Brothers’ release calendar entirely. They’re still committed to a 2020 release date, with studio chief Toby Emmerich issuing a statement that they will “share a new 2020 release date imminently”, but By Sarah • Jul 21, 2020 09:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize Theron: Power Producer Two weeks after its debut, Netflix is hailing The Old Guard as one of its biggest successes ever. All Netflix viewer data comes with a grain of salt, though, because there is no independent verification of Netflix’s viewership, and their own “watch” metric is measured in mere minutes, so By Sarah • Jul 20, 2020 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Old Guard challenges superhero movies to do better Remember when Avengers: Endgame came out (just one year ago!) and co-director Joe Russo was talking up the movie’s big gay moment (BGM) in which he cameos as a grieving widower who reveals, in Steve Rogers’s group therapy, that he went on a date with another man. By Sarah • Jul 17, 2020 11:46 am
Henry Cavill Henry Cavill: Hot Nerd Back in The Tudors days, Henry Cavill was a public nerd. He talked about fantasy novels and role-playing games in interviews, and did not try to hide that he is the quintessential nerd who grows up hot. Then, he became Superman and suddenly, despite playing a King of the By Sarah • Jul 17, 2020 09:36 am
Douchebags Oh great, another bad man Ugh, ANOTHER one, another goddamn roach scurrying across the floor. This time, it’s Kevin Connolly, best known as E from Entourage, a charter member of the Pussy Posse, director of cinematic classic Gotti, is the latest bad man in the news. Yesterday, the Daily Beast published a report about By Sarah • Jul 16, 2020 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Project Power, a slip’n’slide for your mind! Coming off the success of The Old Guard, Netflix has decided that the natural follow-up to a smart superhero movie is a dumb superhero movie. The trailer for Project Power, Netflix’s next superhero movie, has dropped and boy, does it look stupid, like a cross between that Bradley By Sarah • Jul 15, 2020 11:30 am
TV Updates Michaela Coel deserves the full Phoebe* Like Cody, I had to work up to Michaela Coel’s new show, I May Destroy You. I loved her previous, two-series run of Chewing Gum, but I had seen a plot description of I May Destroy You and knew about the sexual assault plotline—based on Coel’s By Sarah • Jul 14, 2020 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Palm Springs is a wacky existential rom-com for our times SPOILERS Stanley Kubrick once said, “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” Palm Springs is a film concerned with that supply of light, and how we find meaning when life seems meaningless and every day the same. Directed by Max Barbakow, making his feature film debut, and By Sarah • Jul 13, 2020 03:49 pm
TV Live Blog Perry Mason is trying so hard Perry Mason, HBO’s prestige prequel of the famous television attorney, is now at the halfway mark. With half the episodes in the can, two things have become very clear: one, Perry Mason isn’t just cynical, it is STEEPED in misery; and two, it is trying SO hard to By Sarah • Jul 13, 2020 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sexy Tesla Look, I am here for any and all Tesla content. I will watch, read, listen to, consume anything relating even tangentially to Nikola Tesla. He is one of the greatest minds the world has ever known, and we are only just beginning to scratch the surface of thinking about maybe By Sarah • Jul 10, 2020 01:32 pm
Charlize Theron Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne in The Old Guard Netflix’s original movies have come a long way in a short amount of time. We’re just two and a half years removed from the total waste of Bright, and now with The Old Guard Netflix proves they can pick a decent project to back. More than decent, actually, By Sarah • Jul 10, 2020 12:22 pm
