Top Reads Rona Cancel Culture Are we going to die? And not because of the stupid virus! It’s the goddamn news ABOUT the virus that’s killing me. It’s SO MUCH. Last night, in the span of like, 15 MINUTES we learned the following: • The US is banning all travel from Europe for By Sarah • Mar 12, 2020 10:05 am
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel accused of workplace toxicity It is never surprising to me when I hear horror stories from behind the scenes of late-night talk shows. Diva guests, demanding bosses, frustrated writers cranking out dozens, if not hundreds, of jokes a day only to get nothing on air—a late night talk show is a particular By Sarah • Mar 11, 2020 10:36 am
TV Updates McMillions’ real legacy is the Colombo coffee order McMillions wrapped up last night with an episode recapping the outcome for the participants in the McDonald’s Monopoly fraud. The first part of the episode focuses on the fallout, and all the people affected by the scam. There is a little bit of feeling here, as some people involved By Sarah • Mar 10, 2020 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jungle Cruise: The African Queen for kids? The first trailer for Jungle Cruise left me merely whelmed. It came across as a knock-off of The Mummy (the good one), and I was not sold on the chemistry of Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson, or the lack of jokes in the trailer. This morning, however, we have By Sarah • Mar 10, 2020 11:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow is still on track With the coronavirus wreaking havoc around the film industry, one of the biggest lingering questions is what happens to the film release calendar this year. (Again, acknowledging that this is not the most important part of this global story, just the part most relevant to what we cover on this By Sarah • Mar 09, 2020 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the film industry Look, I know this is not the most important part of the coronavirus story. Let’s just acknowledge that now and then talk about the myriad ways the coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the film industry, because it is having an unprecedented effect on the business right now. It wasn’ By Sarah • Mar 09, 2020 11:24 am
Ranking the Emmas With Autumn de Wilde’s luscious new adaption of Emma now in theaters—and expanding throughout March—I sat down to watch as many film and television adaptations of Emma as I could cram into a weekend in order to rank the Emmas. I discovered that there is no such By Sarah • Mar 06, 2020 03:22 pm
TV Updates McMillions now has a charismatic fugitive HBO’s true-crime docuseries McMillions is winding down, with the final episode airing next Monday, so now is a good time to check in on Agent Doug Bazooka and the other, considerably less colorful, characters of the McDonald’s Monopoly scam (the extended Colombo family can front all they By Sarah • Mar 06, 2020 01:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in The Way Back In 2016, Ben Affleck and director Gavin O’Connor made a dumb-fun action movie called The Accountant. Now, they have reunited for a new film. Is it a sequel to The Accountant? No. Do I wish it was a sequel to The Accountant? Yes. (Will there ever be a By Sarah • Mar 06, 2020 12:12 pm
TV Updates Taika takes on more Is anyone busier right now than Taika Waititi? Just a couple weeks ago, we learned he had signed on to produce and direct, at least in part, a Showtime series starring Jude Law. That’s on top of the soccer movie, Next Goal Wins, he has due later this year, By Sarah • Mar 05, 2020 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Elisabeth Moss in The Invisible Man Horror movies have a long history of exploiting feminine fear, but some horror movies take it a step further and are about feminine fear. Leigh Whannell’s update to The Invisible Man, repurposing what was supposed to be a Johnny Depp blockbuster as a low-budget genre piece, is one By Sarah • Mar 04, 2020 03:04 pm
Ali Wong Netflix flexes their comedy power Netflix has done many things to the entertainment industry over the last decade, from creating a new viewing model for audiences to drive award season spending even higher in pursuit of a Best Picture Oscar. But one thing they’ve done that we don’t talk about as much is By Sarah • Mar 02, 2020 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anya Taylor-Joy in Emma. Music video director Autumn de Wilde (GREAT name) makes her feature film directorial debut with a luscious new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. This Emma is lavish, detailed, eye-poppingly gorgeous, and unapologetically sexy. There are butts! Between this and Sanditon, butts are all the rage in Austen adaptations. By Sarah • Feb 28, 2020 03:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Say his name Candyman legitimately terrified me when I was kid, to the extent that I white-knuckled a second viewing in a college folklore class ten years later, still as freaked out by it as the day I first saw it. I once threw a bottle of shampoo at a cabinmate at By Sarah • Feb 28, 2020 09:55 am
TV Updates Is this the Culkinaissance? Macaulay Culkin has become steadily more visible over the last couple years, most recently covering Esquire for no real reason except to let everyone know he is doing okay. Now, however, he has taken his biggest step back into the spotlight yet as he is joining American Hororr Story for By Sarah • Feb 27, 2020 10:14 am
Business of Hollywood Disney’s surprise shake-up Late yesterday afternoon, Disney dropped a bombshell when it was announced that CEO Bob Iger is stepping down immediately and will be replaced by Bob Chapek, chairman of Disney Parks, as the new CEO. First of all, this is real-life Sucession and the HEAD OF PARKS got the CEO By Sarah • Feb 26, 2020 09:44 am
