Movie Reviews and Previews NO THANKS, Scary Stories The Super Bowl teasers for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie left a mixed impression. The images in the teasers that are recreated from Stephen Gammel’s f-cking nightmare illustrations are enough to revive my childhood trauma left over from the books. But the suggestion of a By Sarah • Mar 29, 2019 03:08 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones Winning Odds: The Night King Previously, we’ve examined the odds of House Greyjoy and House Lannister ending up on the Iron Throne. This week, we’re going to see what it would take for the Night King to prevail and become the King of All Dead Westeros. Here’s the thing about the Night By Sarah • Mar 28, 2019 03:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina joins Marvel I heard a while back that Angelina Jolie was seen touring Marvel’s spot on the Disney campus, but I assumed it was to talk about directing. Though she is starring in Mistress Maleficent— it’s a better title, don’t @ me—it just seems like her focus is more By Sarah • Mar 28, 2019 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans’ last cover profile In advance of Avengers: Endgame, Chris Evans is covering The Hollywood Reporter in a profile he jokes is his “last cover interview”. He says it as a joke about his looming post-Marvel career, but this is his last run of magazine interviews as Captain America. No, he’s not retiring, By Sarah • Mar 27, 2019 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to Downton Abbey Have you missed Downton Abbey? I kind of have. I feel like part of our current nightmare dystopia is that we don’t have a weekly genteel break anymore, in which even the most serious problems are resolved with a whisper-fight in the study. But we will not be without By Sarah • Mar 27, 2019 01:00 pm
Amazingness Roadtripping with Keanu Here’s a Tuesday treat for us all. Behold Keanu Reeves, stranded somewhere in California, organizing a van to get everyone’s trip back on track. Can you even imagine being stuck in a terminal somewhere and KEANU REEVES appears to get your trip moving again? I would never go By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 03:21 pm
TV Updates Get your witchy circle together Amy Poehler has added so much to the girl talk lexicon, from Galentine’s Day to a whole slew of compliments for your best friend. Now she adds “witchy circle” to her contributions, and if you think I’m not having custom paper products printed with “witchy circle” for my By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 12:59 pm
TV Updates Turns out, Spielberg is shilling for Apple After the Oscars, word got out that Steven Spielberg is agitating for a rule change that would effectively block Netflix from competing for Oscars as they don’t much believe in distributing their movies in theaters when the whole point of their company is to make movies available instantly at By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 09:44 am
Entertainment self-care Entertainment Self-Care: Sleep Podcasts (For previous installments in our Self-Care entertainment series, click here. And since Us is out this weekend and you might seeing it, you might need what is being shared here.) Sleep is important. Obvious, I know, but if you’ve ever experienced a lack of sleep, you know how big By Sarah • Mar 22, 2019 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele keeps it simple with Us After a stunning debut like Get Out, anything less than equal success is bound to seem like a disappointment. Such is the case for Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature film, Us. Is it bad? Emphatically NO. But it’s not as deep or thematically grounded as Get Out, which is By Sarah • Mar 22, 2019 09:54 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones Winning Odds: House Lannister Counting down until the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones, we’re reviewing the winning odds for the remaining great houses of Westeros. Last week, we looked at the (pitiable) odds of House Greyjoy, and this week, we are examining the chances that House Lannister retains their By Sarah • Mar 21, 2019 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick: DOG REVENGE It’s a Keanu kind of day. First we have confirmation that Bill & Ted 3 is actually happening for real this time, and now we have a new trailer for John Wick Chapter 3 (I still refuse to acknowledge the stupid subtitle). This trailer builds on the first, still By Sarah • Mar 21, 2019 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bill & Ted 3 is really happening File this under “I’ll believe it when I see it”, but it seems like the long-fabled Bill & Ted 3 might actually happen. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have been talking about it for years—last year they appeared in Entertainment Weekly teasing the project—but now things are By Sarah • Mar 21, 2019 09:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews First look at Quentin Tarantino’s second-to-last film Assuming Quentin Tarantino actually retires after ten films, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his second-to-last film. Today, a teaser trailer was released—with those boring ass posters coming out I figured a trailer wasn’t far behind—which gives us our first look at QT’s penultimate movie By Sarah • Mar 20, 2019 03:09 pm
TV Updates The Stranger Things kids are growing up so fast Stranger Things 3 premieres on July 4, and now we have a trailer to look at and guess things. ST2 was a little divisive—I like it, as it has stronger character development than the first season—but season three was not rushed out, and as a result, it looks By Sarah • Mar 20, 2019 12:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews All your faves are scamming Jennifer Lopez is a producing a movie based on that NY Mag article about the exotic dancers who scammed some of their clientele. It’s called Hustlers—from the article’s title, “The Hustlers at Scores”—and earlier this year JLo was joined by Constance Wu. Now, with the movie By Sarah • Mar 20, 2019 09:59 am
