Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2: Who cares? Lainey asked me this question—who cares about the Avatar sequels? It is the eternal debate of Avatar, how big is it REALLY, when it left no cultural footprint? Sure, it’s the second biggest movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation), and it was a technological marvel when By Sarah • May 15, 2020 11:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Capone There is a line between “good” and “bad” where quantifiable binary judgments don’t matter because the thing itself is so interesting. Great filmmakers like David Lynch and David Cronenberg frequently walk this line, creating works that are unpleasant, indecipherable, possibly in bad taste and yet are captivating regardless of By Sarah • May 14, 2020 10:56 am
Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson cooks the worst quarantine meal in history for GQ With potential summer movie savior Tenet still due in July (when some theaters will be open at a fraction of their capacity, good luck, Tenet), Robert Pattinson is doing promotion for the movie from quarantine. He covers GQ this month as “The King of Quarantine” and his profile is titled By Sarah • May 13, 2020 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The failed legacy of The Rise of Skywalker SPOILERS With Star War: The Rise of Skywalker hitting Disney+, and since it’s May the 4th week, it is time now to revisit The Rise of Skywalker, a movie that is not even five months old and already aging poorly. At first watch, TROS is an uneven movie that By Sarah • May 07, 2020 03:14 pm
TV Updates Space Farce Remember 50 million years ago when Trump created “Space Force”, the intergalactic branch of the Air Force that will patrol space or something, I don’t know, f-ck it was so long ago and so stupid and this whole thing is making me insane and if we get four By Sarah • May 06, 2020 11:18 am
TV Updates Of course Nicolas Cage will play Joe Exotic Ever since Tiger King aired, people have been fantasy-casting the inevitable narrative adaptation of the show. We already had one project in the works, based on the Wondery podcast, starring Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin. There is now a second project officially on the go, this one technically deriving By Sarah • May 05, 2020 12:37 pm
Star Wars Taika’s inevitable Star War After winning his Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi shot down reports that he was in talks with Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars movie. Well guess what? Taika Waititi is now making a Star Wars movie. There is zero information about this film except that he will co-write By Sarah • May 05, 2020 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Secret Love is a tender portrait of queer romance Here’s my review of A Secret Love, a new Netflix documentary about the seven-decade relationship, most of which was spent in the closet, between Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel: I started crying less than three minutes in and I didn’t stop crying until ten minutes after it By Sarah • May 01, 2020 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen’s Encino Man goes to HBO Max Seth Rogen’s next film, An American Pickle, is about a turn-of-the-last-century immigrant who accidentally gets pickled and preserved before being restored to life in the present day. So basically, it’s Encino Man, but with a pickled immigrant instead of a frozen caveman and much By Sarah • Apr 29, 2020 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oh sit down, AMC Universal was early to the emergency digital release game, pushing their previously released films, like The Invisible Man and The Hunt, onto premium on demand within the first days of the COVID-19 lockdown. They also were the first studio to decide to bypass a theatrical release for a big- By Sarah • Apr 29, 2020 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth in Extraction Early in his Hollywood career, Chris Hemsworth tried to be the kind of action-fueled star we had much of in the 1980s and 1990s, but audiences were indifferent. Then he activated his comedy gene, and for the last few years, we’ve known Hemsworth best as an action-comedy By Sarah • Apr 28, 2020 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Daisy Ridley’s next job Daisy Ridley has booked her next job, for whenever productions resume. This is notable, because over the years and various Star Wars press tours, Ridley has often talked about not having jobs lined up outside Star Wars in a way that is sort of joking but also sort of serious: By Sarah • Apr 28, 2020 11:18 am
Gossip Nostalgia Endgame, one year later Sunday is the one year anniversary of Avengers: Endgame. People, including Lainey, have been In Their Feelings about the Avengers recently, starting earlier this month with that viral thread of audience reactions to some of Endgame’s biggest moments, and more recently with #IfTonyStarkWereInCharge trending on Twitter. We’re missing By Sarah • Apr 24, 2020 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Best Chris is The Saint Default Best Chris Pine has a new project on the horizon. He will star in a reboot of The Saint for Paramount, taking on the role of Simon Templar previously played by Roger Moore and Val Kilmer. I LOVED the Val Kilmer movie in the 1990s, and in the spirit By Sarah • Apr 22, 2020 10:28 am
TV Updates Friends will wait to reunite This week, WarnerMedia announced that HBO Max, their proprietary streaming platform, will launch on May 27. However, not unlike Peacock missing the summer Olympics, HBO Max will launch without a signature piece of programming: the Friends reunion. Like so many other projects, the Friends reunion is caught up in the By Sarah • Apr 22, 2020 09:48 am
TV Updates What’s on Peacock Last week the new streaming platform Peacock opted for a soft launch with an exclusive, VIP guest list of Comcast Xfinity subscribers getting access to their platform first. The rest of us sloppy-mouthed plebes will get to check out Peacock on July 15, but thanks to the worldwide disruption By Sarah • Apr 21, 2020 03:02 pm
