Music Jeremy Renner is here to save us Just last Friday, Lainey wondered if Jeremy Renner would release a new song since he’s claiming in court the corona crash is affecting his ability to make child support payments. WELL GUESS WHAT? Jeremy Renner has, indeed, released a new song; in fact, he has released a whole new By Sarah • Mar 30, 2020 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ranking the textiles and prints of Emma. Emma. is a lavish and detailed period piece, with stunning costumes designed by Alexandra Byrne and gorgeous, colorful Georgian sets from production designer Kave Quinn and set decorator Stella Fox. When I saw Emma. I immediately wanted to watch it again, but with the power to pause so that I By Sarah • Mar 27, 2020 03:35 pm
TV Updates Crossover Madness Two things have happened this month: the NCAA cancelled the March Madness basketball tournament, and Westworld featured a surprise Game of Thrones cameo this week. Having HBO’s biggest show cross over with its try-hardiest show in the same month that there is no March Madness is surely a By Sarah • Mar 27, 2020 02:21 pm
TV Updates Chris Evans is a sad dad Chris Evans continues his post-Marvel streak of playing very un-Captain America characters, playing a sad dad in Defending Jacob, a morally ambiguous family drama coming to Apple TV next month. Movies might be offline right now, but television trucks on, uninterrupted (for now, the production shutdowns will catch By Sarah • Mar 26, 2020 10:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oh god we’re all gonna watch this, aren’t we? With much of the world in lockdown right now, many companies are crashing since they are, by default, closed. Netflix is not one of those companies. Netflix is doing GREAT. Everyone is on Netflix right now, so much so that they have to slow their broadband rates in Europe to By Sarah • Mar 25, 2020 12:36 pm
TV Updates Which Succession characters would thrive in self-quarantine? As another week of self-distancing and self-quarantine goes on, it is time to ask the important questions, such as: Which Succession characters would thrive in self-quarantine? The Roy family is made up of a bunch of self-involved narcissistic assholes who get off on chaos and back- By Sarah • Mar 24, 2020 01:19 pm
TV Updates Tiger King: THIS is the most bonkers true crime docuseries We only just got through McMillions, a bonkers true crime docuseries about large-scale fraud featuring a cast of Real Characters, when here comes Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness with a classic “hold my beer” moment. Do you think McMillions is the craziest true crime story you’ve heard? By Sarah • Mar 23, 2020 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Revisiting Romeo Must Die’s best fight scenes As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Romeo Must Die, let us not overlook the wonderful and, frankly, WEIRD fight scenes that make up this movie. The RMD fight scenes are equal parts martial arts and slapstick buffoonery, and most of them have completely insane setups. I know RMD came By Sarah • Mar 20, 2020 11:32 am
TV Updates Social Distancing Re-View: Castlevania Before they had a breakout hit in The Witcher, Netflix launched another medieval fantasy show about a grumpy monster hunter who swears a lot: Castlevania. With season three now streaming, it’s a great time to get into this series, which is animated in a style I describe as “faux By Sarah • Mar 19, 2020 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Romeo Must Die turns 20 There was a time, in the mid to late 1990s, when I would watch anything even tangentially related to Romeo and Juliet. No, this was not inspired by Romeo + Juliet, it was inspired by reading Romeo and Juliet in middle school (though when the movie came out just one year By Sarah • Mar 19, 2020 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow gives up the ghost Of the spring/early summer film release, Black Widow was the last giant standing, but yesterday, Disney pulled the plug, shuffling Black Widow off its May 1 release date and making it, like everything else, TBD. There goes the summer kickoff. Disney has moved BLACK WIDOW from May 1, 2020 By Sarah • Mar 18, 2020 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cats does not deserve Razzies: A (sort of) Defence of Cats The Razzies, an annual “celebration” of the worst movies released in a year, a sort of anti-Oscars, if you will, were cancelled this year, just like everything else going on right now. Still, the Razzies announced their winners this week, and the most prizes went to Cats, no surprise, By Sarah • Mar 17, 2020 04:27 pm
TV Updates Rona recs for your self-quarantine Since we’re all stuck inside for the next few weeks, we could indulge in personal reflection and growth, pursue creative endeavors, read all those books we’ve been meaning to get to… or we could just watch a lot of television. I have put together a list of bingeable By Sarah • Mar 16, 2020 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Vin Diesel in Bloodshot Based on a character from Valiant Comics, Bloodshot is Vin Diesel’s latest attempt to bag a fantasy/sci-fi franchise where he gets to be the star and not just a talking tree. Diesel sincerely loves the fantasy genre, but he has not evolved past an eighth-grader’s By Sarah • Mar 13, 2020 12:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Even more coronavirus cancellations At the beginning of the week, I was hopeful that the spreading coronavirus situation would not lead to social meltdown, that the cancellation of SXSW would be the worst side-effect we saw. I was so young then, so naïve. Social meltdown is here, and the parade of coronavirus-related By Sarah • Mar 13, 2020 09:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Every movie release date should just be “?” As I am writing this, two more major studio releases have changed their release dates amid coronavirus fears. A Quiet Place II and The Lovebirds, which already lost out on its SXSW premiere, are both postponed indefinitely. They’ll come out eventually, but not for several months now, though if By Sarah • Mar 12, 2020 03:31 pm
