Movie Reviews and Previews The Angels keep rolling As you probably heard, Charlie’s Angels bombed last weekend. Like seriously tanked. Franchise-killer flopped. Even with a sub-$100 million budget, an $8 million opening weekend is bad news. But, the movie is still rolling out overseas, including a premiere in London yesterday. I am always curious about By Sarah • Nov 21, 2019 12:30 pm
TV Updates Entertainment Self-Care: More Soft TV We stand on the cusp of the holiday season, when you might be looking to lock yourself in a linen closet for JUST A MOMENT’S PEACE, JANET, CHRIST. Which means you could probably use some soft TV to take the edge off in between holiday parties and family dinners. By Sarah • Nov 20, 2019 04:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews One month until Star Wars Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker opens in exactly one month. To mark the final countdown, Entertainment Weekly has a special Star Wars edition with three covers featuring the casts of the three movie trilogies. I am not here for the revisionism that the prequel trilogy was good—it wasn’ By Sarah • Nov 20, 2019 11:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Seriously, though, Cats???? Since July, I have been conducting a thorough scientific inquiry into What Is Cats? So far, I have only questions, no answers, as I try to determine What Is Cats, a question seemingly designed to boggle even the sharpest minds. My first hypothesis is that Cats is a coke-induced By Sarah • Nov 19, 2019 02:02 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: New horrors to imagine THINGS. ARE. HAPPENING. An episode devoted to Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson) pulls together a few more threads on Watchmen, bringing us closer to the answers about Will’s grand conspiracy. This is the best episode of Watchmen yet, in no small part thanks to Nelson who gives us the By Sarah • Nov 18, 2019 04:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #ReleaseTheSnyderCut will never end In case you think Martin Scorsese vs. Marvel is the worst, most pointless ongoing argument on Film Twitter, allow me to introduce you to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. It has been going strong for two years and counting, ever since Justice League was released with significant material added by Joss Whedon following Zack By Sarah • Nov 18, 2019 01:28 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: What’s up with Looking Glass? A co-worker of mine shared a Watchmen theory this week that Looking Glass, the masked detective played by Tim Blake Nelson, could be a secret racist like (maybe) Judd. That sounds entirely logical to me, because through four episodes Tim Blake Nelson hasn’t done a whole lot, and By Sarah • Nov 15, 2019 04:48 pm
TV Updates Disney+’s Forky surprise Disney+ arrived with fanfare, technical problems, and its flagship series, The Mandalorian. But after The Mandalorian was over, I started digging into the various menus on Disney+ to see what else I might want to watch—the National Geographic “channel” is full of interesting stuff— and I found a short By Sarah • Nov 15, 2019 03:34 pm
Style Get your Knives Out Knives Out premiered last night, and that extremely good cast showed up, looking extremely good. I am missing Lakeith Stanfield, an underrated hottie, but check out Chris Evans in that winter white suit with the striped knit tie. I stared at this suit in close zoom for a long time, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2019 12:54 pm
Quiveration Sebastian Stan: Still Hot The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will be the first Marvel television show to hit Disney+ next fall. Well, it will be the first new Marvel television show, you can find The Inhumans on Disney+ now. Remember The Inhumans? No? That’s okay, no one does! I’m actually surprised By Sarah • Nov 15, 2019 11:25 am
TV Updates The Crown Cometh The Crown season 3 drops this Sunday on Netflix. Early reviews are really good. It’s not like I expect a drop in quality, not from one of the most lavish and meticulously crafted dramas on television. I just wonder whether or not the issues currently surrounding the real Windsors By Sarah • Nov 14, 2019 03:49 pm
Girlcrushes Kristen Stewart IS SO MUCH FUN in Charlie’s Angels Elizabeth Banks resurrects Charlie’s Angels for a new generation, not so much rebooting the franchise as expanding it, making room for new Angels to have new adventures. Charlie’s Angels is slick and fun and glamorous, and has a similar fizzy appeal as Ocean’s 8. Banks, who writes By Sarah • Nov 14, 2019 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Prince Eric At Last Over the summer, pieces for the live-action Little Mermaid steadily came together, with Halle Bailey signing on to play Ariel, and Melissa McCarthy joining as Ursula, followed by Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay and Awkwafina as Flounder and Scuttle, respectively, and Javier Bardem as King Triton (brilliant choice, By Sarah • Nov 13, 2019 11:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sonic no longer has human teeth Last spring we saw a trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, a live-action movie based on the classic video game. In that trailer, Sonic was revealed to be a nightmare-inducing hell beast with HUMAN TEETH. The internet screamed as one: Thanks, we hate it! And Sonic the Hedgehog was By Sarah • Nov 13, 2019 11:17 am
TV Updates Disney+ launches with The Mandalorian Disney+ launched yesterday with much fanfare and crashing servers. People struggled to log on all day (my first attempt failed, but it was smooth sailing after attempt number two), and headlines screamed all day about how overwhelmed the service was with new users signing on. I am sure the struggle By Sarah • Nov 13, 2019 09:43 am
TV Updates Watchmen: The villain (probably) enters the scene Even though episode four, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own”, adds another new character to the Watchmen pile, several threads also start coming together. The cold open introduces a nice childless farming couple who live next door to a giant and mysterious clock that is under By Sarah • Nov 12, 2019 03:45 pm
