Movie Reviews and Previews Spider-Man Shocker One month after a very public divorce, Marvel and Sony have gotten together for one last bout of makeup sex and will co-produce a final Spider-Man film together. This will allow Tom Holland to finish his era as Peter Parker under the Marvel banner, and keep his trilogy By Sarah • Sep 27, 2019 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sylvester Stallone: Red-Blooded Murrican Gits-Er-Done The Rambo franchise has always been an uneasy mix of bloody action and conservative philosophy, which has mostly not mattered to audiences. The first movie, First Blood, has a sheen of respectability about it, with a literary source (David Morrell’s novel of the same name), an Oscar-winning star By Sarah • Sep 27, 2019 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Renee Zellweger in Judy Music biopics live and die by their star performer, so even though Judy is a rote exercise in the genre, Renee Zellweger’s sublime performance lifts the film to above-average status. Focusing on the last year of Judy Garland’s life, Judy is a compassionate and relatively intimate portrait By Sarah • Sep 27, 2019 02:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kevin Feige steps to Star Wars In a surprising, but yet not surprising, announcement, it has been revealed that Marvel boss Kevin Feige will produce a Star Wars movie. Feige is a huge nerd, so it’s not shocking he would have an idea for a Star Wars project, but also, does Marvel not keep him By Sarah • Sep 26, 2019 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Irishman …video game? A couple months ago we got a teaser for Martin Scorsese’s mob passion project, The Irishman. This is the movie with extensive digital de-aging of its stars, and at the time I said, “They still have a few months to get it all fixed up”. Well, The Irishman By Sarah • Sep 26, 2019 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Bateman in the conservatory with the candelabra with Ryan Reynolds Straight off his surprise win for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series at the Emmys, Jason Bateman is in talks to direct his first feature film, a remake of the board game movie Clue. Bateman is also up for a role in the film, which would put him up against By Sarah • Sep 26, 2019 12:18 pm
TV Updates Bill Hader is asked the Gillis Question I have to be honest, I am baffled that we are discussing Shane Gillis’s firing from SNL as if it is some kind of moral or free speech issue. 1) Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences, no one is arresting Gillis for what he said but By Sarah • Sep 25, 2019 03:09 pm
TV Updates The Crown gets on with it Season three of The Crown is coming in November, and there is now a teaser to show off Olivia Colman in action as Queen Elizabeth II. We’ve already seen a photo of Colman suited up as QEII, but now we can hear her accent and see some of her By Sarah • Sep 20, 2019 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Downton Abbey: The Movie is a comedy If you love Downton Abbey, then you will love Downton Abbey: The Movie. If you do not like Downton Abbey, however, you will not like Downton Abbey: The Movie. The Downton Abbey movie is basically a two hour movie crammed with about four hours of TV show, except the show By Sarah • Sep 20, 2019 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Blake Lively’s John Wick Over the last few years, I have done a complete 180 on Blake Lively. I have zero interest in her explaining the history of ice cream or whatever, and plantation weddings are gross, but as an actress, I have reversed my opinion. Blake Lively is not bad, Blake Lively is By Sarah • Sep 19, 2019 03:46 pm
Equality Issues #NotWorthLess In the wake of Adele Lim’s decision to value herself more and walk away from unequal pay on the Crazy Rich Asians sequels, a hashtag sprang up on Twitter as other women in Hollywood shared similar stories of being underpaid and undervalued. The hashtag “#NotWorthLess” is full of stories By Sarah • Sep 19, 2019 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mark Ruffalo is coming for that Oscar Back in January, Joanna wrote about Anne Hathaway joining a new film from director Todd Haynes, and why that was a good move for her. The movie is called Dark Waters and also stars Mark Ruffalo, and it now has a trailer. While Hathaway seems to be playing a classic By Sarah • Sep 18, 2019 01:33 pm
TV Updates Paul Rudd’s Prestige A year ago we learned about Paul Rudd’s Netflix series in which he would play a dual role, and I said it sounded like “The Prestige but with no magic and plus comedy”. We now have a trailer for Rudd’s show, Living With Yourself, and holy hell, IT By Sarah • Sep 17, 2019 03:42 pm
TV Updates The Crown claims it doesn’t watch The Crown Today in Sure Jan.gif news, Buckingham Palace has issued a statement to The Guardian letting all us peasants know that The Crown does not watch The Crown. It all started on September 7, when The Guardian ran a profile of The Crown and its creator, Peter Morgan. In this By Sarah • Sep 17, 2019 01:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Parasite: First Place, Third Place… and Oscar place? Parasite, the latest film from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, won the Palme d’Or in Cannes back in May and was just named the second runner-up for the TIFF People’s Choice Award. Between Jojo Rabbit and Parasite, the TIFF crowd broke weird this year, because Parasite By Sarah • Sep 16, 2019 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Radioactive closes TIFF Marie Curie is one of those figures who, it seems, should have a million projects ongoing at any moment, but does not. Like how can we have nine Robin Hood movies in development, and NOTHING about Marie Curie? She’s only one of the most important scientists of the modern By Sarah • Sep 16, 2019 03:14 pm
