Pete Davidson Pete Davidson’s million-dollar, antique joke Pete Davidson makes audiences at his stand-up shows sign an NDA with a one million dollar penalty if they reveal his jokes to the public. Pete Davidson’s jokes are among the best protected jokes in the world, precious, rare joke-gems that can only be viewed at select By Sarah • Feb 13, 2020 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to Wes Anderson’s Land of Impossible Twee Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is set for a summer release and is expected to premiere at Cannes. If it does, it will bring a collection of stars to the Croisette unlike any other ensemble that could be assembled. Few directors can attract such high-wattage stars By Sarah • Feb 12, 2020 02:17 pm
Child Stars Macaulay Culkin still has It Macaulay Culkin is not someone I gossip about, but every once in a while, he sticks his head above the waterline and it’s worth observing, like Punxsutawney Phil checking for his shadow. The last time we heard from Mack was almost exactly a year ago. He and Devon Sawa By Sarah • Feb 12, 2020 10:13 am
Equality Issues Taika shares Taika Waititi is an Oscar winning screenwriter now, and his first official move as an Oscar winning screenwriter is to hire another writer to collaborate on Thor: Love and Thunder. Many auteurs would have you believe that filmmaking is a solitary craft and great films result from a single voice, By Sarah • Feb 11, 2020 01:30 pm
Oscars 2020 Taika is a disappointing winner! I’m not apologizing for the exclamation points because Parasite won Best Picture and my heart is still light with joy this is the energy I am taking into 2020! But I have to tell you I am more than a little disappointed that Taika Waititi wore a plain tuxedo By Sarah • Feb 10, 2020 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie in Birds of Prey Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is juggling a lot. It’s a sequel/spin-off hybrid of Suicide Squad, a movie it does not drop-kick out an open window but one it does have to push off stage and make the audience forget. By Sarah • Feb 07, 2020 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Celebrate Parasite now Parasite is breaking ground as the first South Korean film nominated for Best International Feature, Best Director, and Best Picture Oscars—and it will be the first South Korean film to win an Oscar, for Best International Feature, if nothing else—but it’s also remarkable for another reason: Parasite By Sarah • Feb 07, 2020 11:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The BBCU lives! During Golden Globes weekend, Rian Johnson teased us with the news that he is developing a sequel to Knives Out, and now, following a Lionsgsate earnings call, studio chief Jon Feltheimer confirmed the studio has greenlit a sequel, which is hardly surprising given the movie’s success as it will By Sarah • Feb 07, 2020 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Spiral: I would rather watch Cats Chris Rock is a huge fan of the Saw movies. How do we know? Because in one of the weirder entertainment stories of 2019—which is saying a lot, because 2019 was goddamned WEIRD—he pitched his own spin-off to Lionsgate, keeper of the keys of Saw. That spin- By Sarah • Feb 06, 2020 02:10 pm
TV Updates Pedro Pascal’s busy year Pedro Pascal has been around for a while now, having broken out in Game of Thrones season four, back when Game of Thrones was still beloved. That was more than half a decade ago, it’s not like Pedro Pascal is new, but it feels like this year is something By Sarah • Feb 06, 2020 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews This year’s honest Oscar ballot is a doozy The “brutally honest Oscar ballot” is an annual tradition, when The Hollywood Reporter gets anonymous Oscar voters to show their asses explain their vote process to us mere plebes. Sometimes, this peek behind the curtain is interesting, but mostly it’s just infuriating as often the honest voters expose the By Sarah • Feb 06, 2020 09:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Quiet Place Part II gives fans what they want A Quiet Place Part II dropped a new teaser on Super Bowl weekend, which is more high-strung drama and stress. We got a reference to “Dad” in the first trailer, and the new TV spot actually shows John Krasinski returning, for at least the part of the movie that By Sarah • Feb 05, 2020 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews F9 brings #JusticeForHan at last Jason Statham started out in the Fast/Furious universe—dubbed “The Fast Saga” because everything is a goddamn saga now and I BLAME YOU, MARVEL—as a villain. His character, Shaw, killed a member of the original Fast Family, Han, played by Sung Kang. Han died in a crash in By Sarah • Feb 04, 2020 03:49 pm
TV Updates Marvel+ is here …to tee up the Young Avengers? An actual surprise drop on Super Bowl Sunday was an unexpected teaser for the first slate of Marvel TV shows coming to Disney+. “Marvel-Disney+” and “Marvel Studios TV” are both a mouthful, so let’s agree to call this new venture “Marvel+” and move on, yes? This is not By Sarah • Feb 04, 2020 10:34 am
Maple Leaf Of course Keanu is in the SpongeBob movie Keanu Reeves is everywhere, up to and including the Oscars this weekend. It should come as no surprise, then, that Keanu is in the new SpongeBob movie, Sponge on the Run. Even less surprising should be the news that Keanu is playing a piece of mystical tumbleweed. I mean, of By Sarah • Feb 04, 2020 09:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan: The Least Disney Movie Ever Mulan dropped its final trailer yesterday, and it does not look like a Disney movie AT ALL. Mulan looks like a straight-up wuxia action fantasy, in the vein of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Forbidden Kingdom. I am a little worried Mulan will suffer for not appealing to By Sarah • Feb 03, 2020 03:22 pm
