Books Entertainment Self-Care: Super Soft Reading After a self-care break of my own, we are back with new entertainment self-care recommendations , because we all need a goddamn mental vacation every now and then. This time, we’ve got reading recommendations for you, and yes, my break entailed re-reading a lot of romance novels. By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 03:49 pm
TV Updates Modern Love: Not all romance is created equal Amazon’s new anthology Modern Love takes some of the most memorable essays from the New York Times column of the same name and adapts them into charming little vignettes about love in the big city. Or, well, most of them are charming. One is a straight up nightmare. We’ By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benioff & Weiss abandoned their Star War David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, showrunners of Game of Thrones, have left their planned Star Wars trilogy because they are just too dang busy. Last night news broke that Benioff and Weiss have split with Lucasfilm, and statements came from both Benioff and Weiss, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 12:06 pm
TV Updates Watchmen introduces the closet skeletons Spoilers The second episode of Watchmen, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”, deepens our understanding of this alternate America, while setting up the mystery of the show: Who is Will, and, Who is Angela, really? Building off the first episode, “Horsemanship” is also directed by Nicole Kassell, and it answers a By Sarah • Oct 28, 2019 02:24 pm
Break Ups Could Marvel dump Jeremy Renner? Jeremy Renner has had A Year. It started with rumors of a romance with Lady Gaga—which did not materialize, but I would like to visit the alternate universe where Jeremy Renner/Lady Gaga and Brad Pitt/Charlize Theron happened—and then he released his completely mediocre karaoke album, and By Sarah • Oct 28, 2019 11:40 am
TV Updates Anticipating Watchmen In the wake of Game of Thrones, we’re all looking for the next Game of Thrones. I don’t think there will ever be a television show as culturally dominant as GOT again, but we’ve got some contenders for your new weekly obsession. Succession is all family drama By Sarah • Oct 25, 2019 03:58 pm
Douchebags Hero of the Week: Kelly Bachman You may have heard that Harvey Weinstein poked his head above the surface of his slime pool the other day, attending a performance event in New York called Actor’s Hour. At this event, billed as “the first pop-up speakeasy dedicated to artists”, comedian Kelly Bachman threw off her By Sarah • Oct 25, 2019 09:22 am
TV Updates Double the Paul Rudd, double the fun Living With Yourself, the Paul Rudd Netflix show, exists on a continuum between Russian Doll and Maniac. Living With Yourself is high concept and has some strong quirks, but it’s not as openly weird as Maniac. And it’s a show that uses its high concept to examine an By Sarah • Oct 24, 2019 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Maleficent Disappointment Maleficent: Mistress of Evil opened over the weekend, taking the top box office spot, but still coming in under expectations. It’s the first Disney disappointment since Dumbo earlier this year, though it will not likely lose money like Dumbo did. We’re just so used to seeing Disney trample By Sarah • Oct 23, 2019 03:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone is too good for Zombieland: Double Tap Ten years after Zombieland was a sleeper hit, the gang reunites for a sequel to mixed results. In the decade since Zombieland, its stars have gone onto greater and greater success. Jesse Eisenberg became an Oscar nominee, Woody Harrelson added two more Oscar nominations to his collection, and Emma Stone By Sarah • Oct 22, 2019 02:44 pm
TV Updates Watch Watchmen for Regina King (at first) A groundbreaking graphic novel in the 1980s, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen remains today one of the most influential pieces of 20th century speculative fiction. A deconstruction of superhero comics and the geopolitics of the Cold War, Watchmen is a kind of adaptation holy grail. Its rich iconography and By Sarah • Oct 22, 2019 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TROS trailer 2 The final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker dropped last night, and I have a very serious question: What if the movie doesn’t live up to this trailer? This is a GREAT trailer. It’s hitting all the right notes—thrilling, mysterious, nostalgic (Carrie!), exciting, gorgeous visuals. By Sarah • Oct 22, 2019 09:12 am
TV Updates Mid-life Crisis Crown The Crown season three is dropping at an interesting time. Peter Morgan, Netflix, everyone involved with The Crown could not have known that, of course, but as it happens, The Crown arrives at an existential crisis at the same moment that the British royal family is knee-deep in another By Sarah • Oct 21, 2019 01:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o in a zom-com Five years after the apogee of zombies in pop culture, Little Monsters arrives from Australia, a zombie comedy (zom-com) with little in the way of either zombies or comedy. Lupita Nyong’o does what she can with her natural luminous presence, but she cannot rescue an entire movie from By Sarah • Oct 18, 2019 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson: Farts and Loneliness in The Lighthouse I saw The Lighthouse at TIFF, and five weeks later, I am still not sure I actually like this film. I admire it, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it, but did I enjoy it? Does enjoyment even matter when a film is so specifically evocative and provoking? “Like” By Sarah • Oct 18, 2019 01:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Dano > Jonah Hill There was a report circulating for the last month that Jonah Hill was in talks for a villainous role in The Batman, with everyone guessing who he could be playing and how much he would get paid (the Penguin and $10 million were betting favorites). But yesterday, Hill passed on By Sarah • Oct 17, 2019 03:34 pm
