TV Updates Woody Harrleson and Justin Theroux revisit Watergate Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux both starred in beloved HBO dramas, True Detective season one for Harrelson, and The Leftovers for Theroux. Now, they are both returning to HBO, to star together in a limited series called The White House Plumbers, about the two men who planned the Watergate break- By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Welcome to the Florence Pugh party, Vogue Vogue would like you to know that Florence Pugh is cool, but not like TOO COOL, she’s just the right amount of cool. She’s an It Girl, but she’s not an It Girl because she doesn’t trip or do cheesy late night talk show bits. Vogue By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 12:56 pm
Mena Massoud We are failing Mena Massoud Earlier this year, I spent much of my Aladdin review raving about Mena Massoud, saying, “Let this be the takeaway of live-action Aladdin—the movie is completely mediocre, but Mena Massoud is A Star. If Aladdin gives us nothing else but Mena Massoud, then it has done its job, By Sarah • Dec 04, 2019 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews James Bond has another bad day Poor James Bond, always having such bad days at work. Wouldn’t it be nice to see Bond just, like, chill out for a while? But no, the man can’t even retire without getting dragged back into the spy game. The first trailer for No Time to Die, the By Sarah • Dec 04, 2019 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow on her own At long last, and more than five years overdue, Black Widow has her own movie. The teaser for Black Widow was released this morning, and it looks…fine. If this was coming out sometime between 2012 and 2015, when fans were most loudly clamoring for a Black Widow standalone movie, By Sarah • Dec 03, 2019 11:15 am
TV Updates Watchmen: Big Blue Surprise Spoilers As we approach the end of Watchmen, we’re getting into serious spoiler territory, so tap out now if you’re not caught up. Okay? If you don’t want to be spoiled, now is the time to get gone. Throughout Watchmen’s run, I’ve been wondering what By Sarah • Dec 02, 2019 03:07 pm
TV Updates Watchmen’s Two Faces Over six episodes of Watchmen, a pattern has emerged. There are two central story tenets, one grounded in the expanded world of the show, centering on Angela Abar and the thematic exploration of race in America. The other grows outs of the original graphic novel and revolves around the plot— By Sarah • Nov 29, 2019 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Ruffalo in Dark Waters In Dark Waters, Mark Ruffalo is at his most disgruntled-professorial as Robert Bilott, a lawyer who devotes his life to pursuing DuPont for knowingly poisoning the water supply in a small town in West Virginia. Dark Waters is basically unsexy Erin Brockovich, which is to say it’s a By Sarah • Nov 28, 2019 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chadwick Boseman in 21 Bridges 21 Bridges is a standard police thriller, the type that comes chock-a-block full of recognizable character actors and used to do middling business at the theater and then find a long, healthy second life on cable. It’s what I call a “weekend afternoon movie”, the sort of By Sarah • Nov 27, 2019 04:05 pm
TV Updates Disney’s last laugh When Disney+ launched a couple weeks ago, some people laughed because there were some technical issues, with people struggling to sign in or maintain a decent connection with the platform. Well who’s laughing now, because Disney’s stock closed yesterday at a record high. Now, this is not going By Sarah • Nov 27, 2019 11:15 am
TV Updates Revisiting The Crown: Princess Anne’s Most Unimpressed Faces Erin Doherty stars in the third season of The Crown as grown-up Princess Anne, and she is MAGNIFICENT. She is also, unfortunately, criminally underused. (They skipped the kidnapping attempt! HOW do you skip a princess foiling her own kidnapping attempt?!) But for the brief time Doherty is on screen, By Sarah • Nov 26, 2019 03:52 pm
TV Updates Revisiting The Crown: Prince Charles’s Most Hangdog Faces In the third season of The Crown, Josh O’Connor steps in as grown-up Prince Charles. O’Connor gives a wonderful performance, capturing Charles’s awkwardness and latent vindictiveness, all while cultivating audience sympathy for Charles’s uneasy position in the family and spiky relationship with his mother. (Honestly, By Sarah • Nov 26, 2019 03:22 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: The Lone Ranger Cometh Spoilers Somehow, Watchmen keeps getting better, which should be impossible given this show’s high standard from the jump. But building off last week’s stellar episode, the latest Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”, ups the ante again, giving us an episode full of answers, yes, but also the strongest thematic By Sarah • Nov 25, 2019 03:25 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: The truthers are right I really only have one pressing question after the last episode of Watchmen and that is: Is Wade okay?! We’re heading into the back half of Watchmen, and things are coming together, though Wade’s fate remains unclear. We might not get an answer to this question, as episode By Sarah • Nov 22, 2019 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Apple pulls The Banker Earlier this month, we got a trailer for The Banker, Apple’s first foray into award season. The movie stars Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson as black bankers who hire a white guy to represent them in real estate deals. The story sounded interesting, the movie looked decent, and By Sarah • Nov 22, 2019 11:07 am
TV Updates The Crown cracks in season three In its third season, The Crown experiences a reset, with a new cast coming in to play the royal family at a later stage in life. The Queen, now played by Olivia Colman, is in her middle life, older and no wiser as she navigates a changing world. The transition By Sarah • Nov 21, 2019 04:21 pm
