Movie Reviews and Previews Taika Waititi stays busy Taika Waititi is a busy man. Jojo Rabbit is about to hit the fall festival circuit, he’s got acting and directing duties for The Mandalorian bearing fruit this fall, he’s returning to Marvel for more Thor, but before that, he’ll direct a movie about the American Samoan By Sarah • Aug 28, 2019 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leslie Jones moves on After five seasons of SNL not really knowing what to do with her, Leslie Jones is moving on and won’t be returning for season 45 next month. During her time on the show, she was nominated for two Emmys and was consistently the best part of Weekend Update, but By Sarah • Aug 28, 2019 10:12 am
TV Updates The Mandalorian got me I have not been 100% sold on Disney’s upcoming streaming service, Disney+. Mainly it’s an issue of money, with more and more streaming services coming online, the savings of cord-cutting are being wiped out. But also I don’t have kids so about two-thirds of the potential content By Sarah • Aug 27, 2019 04:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow’s new duds The Black Widow movie continues teasing us, making a stop at D23 the other day where some footage was screened—sounds like the same kitchen fight scene between Natasha Romanov and Yelena Belova—though the cast, still filming, was not present for this one. We do have, however, some new By Sarah • Aug 27, 2019 03:13 pm
TV Updates Bucky With The Short Hair Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan were at D23 this weekend, promotin their upcoming Disney+ show, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. The show has now progressed to the “having an official poster” phase. The poster reveals Bucky’s new look, including the loss of his bountiful locks. Check it out: By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland loves us 3,000 Following his faux-oblivious Instagram appearance with RDJ, Tom Holland popped down to Anaheim to appear at D23 to shill Onward, a Pixar film he’s co-starring in with Chris Pratt. The very big elephant in the very big room is the dissolution of the Sony-Marvel production deal that allowed Holland By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 02:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit Harington and Gemma Chan are Eternals, too On Friday afternoon, Deadline ran a hilariously skimpy report that Kit Harington would be joining the MCU, offering no details or even vague options of what he could be doing. During D23 his involvement was confirmed when it was announced he would be joining The Eternals as Dane Whitman, aka By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 12:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rey’s new lightsaber Disney biennial fan convention, D23, happened over the weekend, and now the question is when Disney is just going to make this an annual event. This year felt like Comic-Con Part II, with an unending cycle of weekend news, including movies and TV shows that won’t be coming out By Sarah • Aug 26, 2019 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gerard Butler in Angel Has Fallen Gerard Butler—who is basically Jason Statham without the charm, or Chuck Norris with a Scottish accent—makes a certain kind movie. His movies are dependably bad, his performances are reliably wooden, he never has chemistry with anyone on screen. His movies always feature some combination of the following: Gerard By Sarah • Aug 23, 2019 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A cure for your Spider-Man blues The news that Sony and Marvel are dissolving their deal to co-produce Spider-Man hit fans hard. Spider-Man is popular unto himself, the MCU version of the character is particularly popular, not least because he is the protégé of Tony Stark, one of the MCU’s most beloved characters. People are By Sarah • Aug 22, 2019 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keri Russell has Antlers I have not watched The Americans, because I have weird middle-child resentment toward The Americans for pulling focus from Justified and I don’t care if that’s unrational, Justified was wonderful but the minute The Americans showed up everyone was like, Oh look at this drama that’s all By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 03:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Other Bombshell Recently, the title “Bombshell” has been most affiliated with Hedy Lamarr, who has been relaunched into public awareness largely thanks to a documentary called Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. However, there is a new Bombshell on the block, and it’s the story of Roger Ailes’ downfall starring Nicole Kidman, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Matrix, I guess? Live from the heart of the Keanuaissance, comes the shocking announcement that The Matrix 4 is happening, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively, and Lana Wachowski is returning to write, direct, and produce. Notably, her sister, Lilly Wachowski, is not By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 11:48 am
Business of Hollywood The Spider-Man Custody Battle The most surprising entertainment marriage of the decade is the union between Sony and Marvel, who have co-produced Spider-Man together since rebooting the character in 2016 with Captain America: Civil War. Their marriage was medieval in that it was entirely about property acquisition, giving Marvel one of their marquee heroes By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond Word Salad Poor Bond 25. Every time to they try to get a little spotlight for themselves, they get Cats-trailered right off the internet. First it was doing a “live launch” of Bond 25 during Avengers-Winterfell Week, and now it’s getting booted out of the trending topics by Marvel, AGAIN. We’ By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Good Boys is actually good This summer has seen a greater than ever divide between the haves (Disney) and the have nots (everyone else) at the box office, but Good Boys opened over the weekend with $21 million, making it only the third original movie to top the box office THIS YEAR (yikes on bikes By Sarah • Aug 20, 2019 03:24 pm
