Movie Reviews and Previews Toy Story 4 is ABOUT the existential nightmare The Toy Story franchise has always had a latent streak of existential dread, but Toy Story 4 is the first one to fully embrace the nightmare and be ABOUT the existential horror of existence. These are stories predicated on the importance of friendship, and that is still present in Toy By Sarah • Jun 20, 2019 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendallandenhaal Everyone’s favorite young maybe-couple Hollywood, Tom Holland and Zendaya, are out and about, promoting Spider-Man: Far From Home. Jake Gyllenhaal is tagging along, making him the world’s handsomest third wheel. The three of them together are Zendallandenhaal, which sounds like a medieval province in Sweden. They’re doing By Sarah • Jun 20, 2019 02:20 pm
Douchebags A Max Landis expose finally arrives When Bright, that awful Netflix fantasy film about magic cops in Los Angeles, came out in December 2017, many people wondered when the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar would spit out screenwriter Max Landis’ name. He was long alleged to be a creep, and it seemed like finally his reckoning would By Sarah • Jun 19, 2019 12:56 pm
TV Updates GLOW’s Vegas residency GLOW is one of those shows I fear gets lost in the noise of Too Much TV. It’s an OUTSTANDING show, but it’s one of many outstanding shows, and it’s on Netflix, a platform that does not treat all their children the same (especially as seasons roll By Sarah • Jun 19, 2019 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel x3 Brie Larson also won an MTV Movie Award, for Best Fight in Captain Marvel. They singled out the “Carol vs. Minn-Erva” fight, which…was that the Nerf gun bit? I assume this is really for the whole third act of Captain Marvel, because Carol and Minn-Erva didn’t really throw By Sarah • Jun 18, 2019 02:23 pm
Girlcrushes Sandra Bullock shames her kids at the MTV Awards The MTV Movie & TV Awards aired last night, bringing with it an annual reminder of the march of time and our ever-growing disconnectedness with The Youths (nothing makes me feel as old as contemporary MTV, except maybe the Grammys), but there was an old-school Movie Star on hand for By Sarah • Jun 18, 2019 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Men in Black: International is the latest summer victim Barring Disney movies, the box office this summer (so far) has been kind of miserable. Audiences are not feeling all the sequels, but they’re not turning out for original movies, like Booksmart, The Longshot, and Late Night, either. This was another dismal weekend, with every new movie under-performing, including By Sarah • Jun 17, 2019 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A bunch of ghouls in The Dead Don’t Die Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature, The Dead Don’t Die, is a curious movie that exists in two realities at once: one in which it is good, and one in which it is bad. It’s like Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe in that it is By Sarah • Jun 14, 2019 01:34 pm
Josh Hartnett also got a job Last week, we discussed Orlando Bloom’s new job, an historical fantasy on Amazon Prime. This week, Josh Hartnett—the Proto-Orlando Bloom—also got a new job, also on a TV show. Hartnett’s show is called Paradise Lost, and it is a Southern Gothic mystery about a psychiatrist who By Sarah • Jun 13, 2019 04:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yellow Rose is a sneaky movie about country music and immigration At a time when mainstream country music has never been worse, movies have decided that country music is the language of unlikely dreamers. There are two movies this year about country-star hopefuls coming from unlikely places: Wild Rose is about an aspiring country singer from working class Glasgow, and Yellow By Sarah • Jun 13, 2019 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dark Phoenix was a clusterf-ck Dark Phoenix is a sad end to the X-Men franchise v.1, and it is bombing horribly at the box office, estimated to lose at least $100 million. Its $32 million opening weekend is the worst in the franchise’s history, and it’s not going to get any better, By Sarah • Jun 12, 2019 01:52 pm
Business of Hollywood The Oscars: Chaos ahead of schedule Last year the Oscars had one of the most chaotic seasons ever. Kevin Hart was the host, then Kevin Hart was not the host. There was the announcement of a new “popular film” category, which was quickly cancelled. Then, they announced there would only be two Best Song nominees performing By Sarah • Jun 12, 2019 11:40 am
TV Updates Natasha Lyonne – she’s running Emmy voting begins today, and one of the hopefuls is Natasha Lyonne, star of Russian Doll. Yesterday she attended a Netflix “FYSee” Q&A to promote the show’s Emmy hopes, alongside show co-creators Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, her co-star Charlie Barnett, editor Todd Downing—that show depends By Sarah • Jun 10, 2019 05:06 pm
BFFs Forensic Gossip Files: Julia Roberts at Denzel Washington’s tribute Denzel Washington was honored last night with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. As one of the most popular and beloved figures in the industry, basically everyone showed up for him. Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Cicely Tyson, Spike Lee, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, Jerry Bruckheimer, Mahershala Ali, Jamie Foxx, Frances By Sarah • Jun 07, 2019 02:43 pm
Award Season Campaigning Let Billy Porter host a truth-telling roundtable Award season roundtable roulette continues, and this time, it’s the drama dudes up to bat. The roundtable features Stephan James (Homecoming), Diego Luna (Narcos), Richard Madden (Bodyguard), Billy Porter (Pose), Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal), and Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon). That’s a solid group, and just as By Sarah • Jun 07, 2019 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The X-Men limp to the finish line With Disney taking over Fox, and the X-Men returning to Marvel Studios’ control, the X-Men franchise is now a lame duck. Dark Phoenix, which should have been the next stop in the two-decade-long franchise, is now the culmination of the franchise that began with 2000’s X-Men. (New Mutants, which By Sarah • Jun 06, 2019 03:44 pm
