BFFs The Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson Buddy Circle The working title of this piece was “Evans and ScarJo circle jerk”; I cleaned up the headline because I am a PROFESSIONAL. But make no mistake, any interview format that involves actors interviewing each other is a circle jerk, and the Variety “Actors on Actors” series is no different. It’ By Sarah • Nov 12, 2019 02:34 pm
Ricky Gervais Ricky Gervais returns to the Golden Globes Despite a host-less Oscars working out well, the HFPA are sticking with a host for the Golden Globes, and announced this morning that Ricky Gervais will return for the fifth time as the host in 2020. Because of the Oscars accelerated schedule, the Golden Globes will air on January By Sarah • Nov 12, 2019 12:18 pm
TV Updates Watchmen episode 4 preview Watchmen episode 4 preview In the last episode, Watchmen both brought us closer to the original graphic novel, and expanded the world of the show. Now that the show is not just about Angela Abar, but also Laurie Blake, the questions just keep mounting. We have to find out about By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 02:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson in Doctor Sleep Doctor Sleep has an impossible task. It has to be a sequel to The Shining, the Stephen King story, and it has to be a sequel to The Shining, the Stanley Kubrick film, widely regarded as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It is totally possible to adapt By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 02:25 pm
Dumbass Leave James Dean Alone, You Ghouls This week in Utterly Ghoulish News, we learned that a pair of directors have “cast” “James Dean” in an upcoming Vietnam War movie called Finding Jack. The directors, Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, are making their feature film directorial debut, and they have found the perfect way to guarantee their By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Elisabeth Moss takes over the Johnny Depp-less Invisible Man Tom Cruise’s The Mummy tanked, and Universal’s would-be Dark Universe collapsed. That meant no Russell Crowe Dr. Jekyll movie, no Javier Bardem Frankenstein, and no Johnny Depp Invisible Man. Earlier this year, Universal pivoted with their classic monster franchise and handed it to Jason Blum and his By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 10:09 am
Quiveration Chris Evans joins Billy on the Street Billy on the Street is now on Netflix (not every episode, but a lot of them), and so host Billy Eichner took the streets of New York along with Chris Evans to shout at strangers about his new streaming home, and to do some marketing for Knives Out. Two things By Sarah • Nov 06, 2019 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell: More Bat-Villains The main cast for Matt Reeves’ The Batman is rounding out, with Colin Farrell added to the list of names on the villain call sheet. He is in talks to play the Penguin, joining Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Paul Dano as the Riddler. (Andy Serkis is also in talks By Sarah • Nov 06, 2019 11:47 am
Jenny Slate Jenny Slate’s Stage Fright Jenny Slate’s first stand-up special, Stage Fright, is not going to work for you if you don’t like Jenny Slate. A traditional stand-up set combined with a personal mini-documentary about Slate’s life, Stage Fright is maximum Jenny Slate from every direction. If you’ve By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Apple TV+ enters award season Yesterday the first trailer for The Banker dropped. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie as a pair of would-be bankers who, because of racial prejudice, train a white guy (Nicholas Hoult) to stand in for them as the owner of their bank, so it’s BlacKkKlansman By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 02:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in The King What is the point of Shakespeare without Shakespeare? This question is central to David Michôd’s The King, which tells the story of Henry V of England, a story canonized in English literature by Shakespeare’s Henry Cycle of plays. There are other great warrior-kings of England that Shakespeare By Sarah • Nov 04, 2019 02:43 pm
TV Updates Watchmen piles it on There are many unanswered questions and mysterious premises in Watchmen, but one thing we can say for certain about this show is that it is super into Doctor Manhattan’s big blue dick. Last episode it was Adrian Veidt making his clone-slave hang dong in his play about Manhattan, By Sarah • Nov 04, 2019 01:12 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: Who ARE these people? Watchmen, like Game of Thrones, invites theorizing. We’re two episodes in and this is already a richly detailed world, with big plot setups and seemingly minor background information that may or may not end up being relevant. Unlike Game of Thrones, however, book readers don’t really have an By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Linda Hamilton returns in Terminator: Dark Fate The Terminator franchise gets back on track with Terminator: Dark Fate, which brings back original star Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, and sees James Cameron return as a producer. Terminator: Dark Fate is a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and just by continuing the story of Sarah Connor, By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 12:08 pm
TV Updates Henry Cavill is unsexy in The Witcher Netflix’s attempt at creating their own Game of Thrones is the Henry Cavill fantasy drama, The Witcher. The first trailer left me a little cold, because while the visuals are good, Cavill is not the most engaging presence and they barely let him, the main character, speak. Now we By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 10:47 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones’ bad week continues Okay, it’s not precisely Game of Thrones’ fault that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss left their Star Wars trilogy. But even if it’s not a direct impact on GOT itself, that event does contribute to the overall tainting of GOT’s legacy, which is still muddied By Sarah • Oct 30, 2019 09:01 am
