TV Updates The Most Eighties Lewks of Stranger Things 3 We can debate if Stranger Things is actually good or not—for every one good thing, like Robin, there is a bad thing, like Hopper’s descent into rageaholic assholery—but one thing Stranger Things always nails is its 1980s aesthetic. This year, being the Season Of The Mall, there By Sarah • Jul 12, 2019 01:43 pm
TV Updates In Praise of Steve Harrington SPOILERS WITHIN In season one of Stranger Things, Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) was a take on the classic 1980s movie bully—popular, good-looking, dating the girl the scrappy underdog hero liked, and a total asshole. By the end of that season, we learned that Steve isn’t quite the raging By Sarah • Jul 12, 2019 10:10 am
Douchebags Aziz Ansari returns Eighteen months after an allegation of sexual misconduct threatened to ruin his career—not really, of course, because no one except for Harvey Weinstein has been ruined but people are always so worried about the hardships of men—Aziz Ansari returns to television with a new Netflix stand-up special, Right By Sarah • Jul 11, 2019 10:08 am
TV Updates Stranger Things 3 Breakout: Maya Hawke SPOILERS WITHIN Every season of Stranger Things has given us a breakout star among the kid-cast. The first season, it was Millie Bobby Brown. The second season, Joe Keery leveled up Steve Harrington and became everyone’s favorite dad friend. In the third season, the breakout is unquestionably Maya Hawke, By Sarah • Jul 10, 2019 04:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Judy survive the sea change? A couple months ago, we got the first trailer for Judy, the Judy Garland biopic starring Renee Zellweger. At the time, I called it “hardcore bait” for Oscar. Now we have a second trailer for Judy, and I don’t just think this is Oscar bait, I think this movie By Sarah • Jul 09, 2019 02:54 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Fast 9: Will the women get to stand up this time? Fast 9, the latest entry in the most improbable franchise in cinema, is currently filming in the UK. Vin Diesel took to Instagram to drop some casting news, confirming that Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren are returning for this installment. Theron was the villain in F8te of the Furious—still By Sarah • Jul 09, 2019 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Maleficent is a baddie again…or is she? While writing up that solid Mulan teaser, I cut a whole tangent about Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and its place in the live-action remake canon. But now we have a brand new Maleficent trailer to judge and it is exactly what my tangent-rant was about, so now let’s talk By Sarah • Jul 08, 2019 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan suits up The Disney live-action remake train CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP, so before we even get to The Lion King and Maleficent 2, the remaining remakes for the year, we have a teaser for Mulan, the first live-action remake of 2020. I have not been super enthusiastic about these remakes, By Sarah • Jul 08, 2019 09:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey is the real Ariel On the heels of the so-so news about Melissa McCarthy playing Ursula in the live-action Little Mermaid comes the GLORIOUS news that Halle Bailey, of Chloe x Halle fame, will play Ariel. There was some initial confusion that Halle Berry is playing Ariel, which Halley-mark-Berry set straight on Twitter: In By Sarah • Jul 04, 2019 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal in Spider-Man: Far From Home Spider-Man: Homecoming works about as well as a “standalone” movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe can (none of these movies truly stand alone, but some pass better than others). Its sequel, Spider-Man: Far From Home, however, does not stand alone at all. It is well and truly a coda to By Sarah • Jul 03, 2019 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All the stars in Knives Out Pre-Star Wars, Rian Johnson made his name as a director on twisty-turny genre pieces Brick, The Brothers Bloom (vastly underappreciated), and Looper. Then he went off and made a Star War and a very vocal fragment of the fandom pooped their Pampers over The Last Jedi, an argument which continues By Sarah • Jul 03, 2019 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Midsommar is the best breakup movie in the whole ass world Writer/director Ari Aster really f-cked us up last year with his feature film debut, Hereditary. He’s back this year with his sophomore effort, Midsommar, a daytime nightmare about toxic relationships and the horror of white male mediocrity. Here’s the deal—Midsommar is not as traumatically frightening as By Sarah • Jul 02, 2019 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Melissa McCarthy wants our poor, unfortunate souls Late Friday, Variety reported that Melissa McCarthy is in talks to play Ursula in the inevitable Disney live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. This is the only Disney live-action remake I actually care about because I LOVE The Little Mermaid. I loved mermaids so much as a kid I used By Sarah • Jul 02, 2019 02:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ready Player Jumanji Back during the 2017 holidays, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a surprise, near-billion-dollar hit. So, naturally, a sequel (three-quel, technically) was immediately rushed into development. That movie, Jumanji: The Next Level, is scheduled for the 2019 holiday season, obviously hoping to repeat the fortunes of its predecessor. The first By Sarah • Jul 02, 2019 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Himesh Patel in Yesterday Yesterday has one hell of a hook: Jack (Himesh Patel), a struggling singer-songwriter, hits his head and wakes up in a world where no one else remembers The Beatles, which is his ticket to long-awaited fame and glory. Nested within this story is a romantic dramedy about Jack and his By Sarah • Jun 28, 2019 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Henry Cavill, Secondary Sherlock Post-Superman, Henry Cavill is staying busy. He has that Witcher show coming to Netflix later this year (probably), and now he has bagged a movie role, one which could allow him to regrow The Mustache. Cavill will play Sherlock Holmes…in a movie that is not about Sherlock Holmes. He’ By Sarah • Jun 28, 2019 11:23 am
