Movie Reviews and Previews Start the awards clock on Renee Zellweger I was hoping to get at least halfway through Cannes before we started talking about this year’s Oscar race, but Cannes doesn’t start for a week and here we are, talking about this year’s Oscar race. The subject: Renee Zellweger. A teaser for Judy, her biopic of By Sarah • May 10, 2019 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds in Detective Pikachu Well this is a letdown. After a wildly weird, confusingly promising trailer, Detective Pikachu is a bust. Well, a qualified bust, because six year olds and/or super enthusiastic Pokemon fans will probably like it. But it is not nearly as wacky or subversive as the trailers made it seem. By Sarah • May 10, 2019 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews It: No thank you It was a surprise monster hit in 2017—it’s the highest-grossing horror film ever—and a sequel was immediately greenlit for 2019. Well, the teaser trailer for that sequel, It: Chapter 2, is here and all I have to say is: No thank you. All full up on horror By Sarah • May 09, 2019 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Richard Madden gets a better deal than Bond Even though we are years away from needing a new James Bond, Richard Madden is currently the favorite heir presumptive, thanks to his compelling turn in Bodyguard. But yesterday The Wrap reported that Madden is in talks for The Eternals, the Marvel movie that will star Angelina Jolie. I realize By Sarah • May 09, 2019 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth continues doing the work Over the last few years, Chris Hemsworth finally found his groove as a comedic actor, but also as a leading man who is happy—even enthusiastic—about working with women. Most of his movies from the last few years have Hemsworth either playing second fiddle to women (Ghostbusters), or co-starring By Sarah • May 08, 2019 12:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man is going through some stuff The spoiler buffer for Avengers: Endgame is officially over, because there is a new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home and it is straight up giving away major Endgame plot points. This trailer gives us a better view of Peter Parker post-re-snap, still reeling from That Thing That Happened and By Sarah • May 06, 2019 12:46 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: Imagine better for the women SPOILERS ALWAYS SPOILER ALERT LAST CHANCE TO GO BEFORE SPOILERS THE SPOILERS ARE COMING Here is my three-prong approach to this episode. 1) Bad Pet Ownership The animals of Westeros deserve better! Poor Ghost shows up at the mass funeral and has half his ear bitten off and NO ONE By Sarah • May 06, 2019 08:54 am
TV Updates Are you watching Barry yet? There is too much TV, it’s a fact. It’s impossible to keep up with everything, so it is very possible you have missed Bill Hader’s HBO series, Barry. Are you watching it? No? Not yet? WELL YOU SHOULD. There isn’t much TV I would make people By Sarah • May 03, 2019 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron in Long Shot The movie that took Seth Rogen from ensemble player in Judd Apatow projects to leading man (in Judd Apatow projects) is Knocked Up. Knocked Up is also a movie that has not aged particularly well, in the way it portrays ambitious, career-oriented women. Long Shot, a romantic comedy produced by By Sarah • May 03, 2019 10:36 am
TV Updates Big Mouth is big time Earlier this year, Prem tried to get you to watch Big Mouth. Did you? I hope so, you should really be watching Big Mouth. It’s the best show about puberty…ever. And every season it attracts more and bigger names to the guest cast. The upcoming season three is By Sarah • May 02, 2019 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #ThankYouAvengers There is a lovely hashtag circulating on Twitter, #ThankYouAvengers. It’s full of people remembering their favorite characters and moments, and a hell of a lot of people mentioning they literally grew up with the Avengers, going from elementary school to college over the course of the eleven-year franchise. Some By Sarah • May 01, 2019 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews No, Arya is not a Mary Sue SPOILERS There are some words that let a person know exactly who you are. Use them and you’re telling on yourself. Recently this list of words has grown to include the language of the diaper babies. “Soyboy”, “cuck”, “SJW”, these are terms that announce to the world you wear By Sarah • Apr 30, 2019 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews So what happened to the Avengers’ timeline? STILL SPOILERS MORE SPOILERS THERE ARE SPOILERS JUST SEE THE MOVIE ALREADY Maybe the biggest debate coming out of Avengers:Endgame is what is going on with the timeline. I admit, this is my favorite post-Endgame debate. Talking about Natasha is frustrating for all the wasted potential, the Fat Thor By Sarah • Apr 30, 2019 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I did not mean THIS weird When the Detective Pikachu trailer came out, I said, “Let’s get REAL WEIRD”. I am now revising my statement, because we have a trailer for a live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie and I did not mean we should get THIS weird. This is about ten miles past how weird By Sarah • Apr 30, 2019 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who IS the strongest Avenger? Continuing spoilers for Endgame There are spoilers in this post Please be aware of spoilers One more time… SPOILERS It’s a debate that began in Thor: Ragnarok—who is the Strongest Avenger? Thor thinks it’s him. Tony thinks it’s the Hulk. But Carol Danvers is now on By Sarah • Apr 30, 2019 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Let’s talk about Black Widow MAJOR SPOILERS WITHIN SPOILER ALERT SPOILERS BEWARE OF SPOILERS ONE MORE TIME – SPOILERS Natasha Romanoff was the second Avenger in the door. Scarlett Johansson debuted the character way back in 2010, in Iron Man 2. She was the second team member we met, not Captain America, not Thor, and not By Sarah • Apr 29, 2019 03:09 pm
