Douchebags Emma Thompson quits over John Lasseter If you recall, John Lasseter, impresario of Pixar, left Pixar last year amid allegations of inappropriate conduct with female staff. He got an exceptionally kind and gentle send off from Disney, being given months to ease out the door, golden parachute dragging behind him. He was almost immediately snapped up By Sarah • Feb 27, 2019 10:15 am
TV Updates Fosse/Verdon is coming for all the awards During the Oscars, FX dropped a new trailer for Fosse/Verdon, the engineered-to-win-ALL-the-awards drama they have coming later in the spring. Sam Rockwell went into the Oscars the reigning Best Supporting Actor and a back-to-back nominee on the night. Now he’s being set up to win an Emmy. It’ By Sarah • Feb 26, 2019 01:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Florence Pugh in Fighting with My Family Do you have to care about professional wrestling to enjoy Fighting with My Family? No. Though set in the world of the WWE, and based on the life story of professional wrestler Saraya-Jade Bevis, known in the ring as “Paige”, Fighting with My Family is a classic sports underdog story. By Sarah • Feb 22, 2019 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rocketman is not hiding its icon Earlier this week, we got a featurette from Rocketman meant to sell us on Taron Egerton’s Elton John karaoke. Now, we have the first full trailer to get our best feel yet for Rocketman and its potential. I am most curious about the dance numbers and fantasy sequences, which By Sarah • Feb 21, 2019 04:07 pm
Dumbass Can we just not with Ghostbusters again You guys, I am tired. It’s FEBRUARY and I am already exhausted. Here’s the latest sh-tf-ck ruining the mood. Last month we learned Jason Reitman is re-rebooting Ghostbusters in 2020. The announcement left a bad taste in my mouth in re: the 2016 reboot starring women, and of By Sarah • Feb 21, 2019 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Hemsworth Hulks out Today in I Mean, Okay news, Chris Hemsworth is going to star as Hulk Hogan in a biopic to be directed by Todd Phillips. This project reunites Phillips with The Joker screenwriter Scott Silver, and Hemsworth is also on board as a producer. This is a strange mix of people By Sarah • Feb 21, 2019 01:00 pm
Dumbass The honest Oscar ballots are back It’s that time of year, when anonymous Oscar voters show their asses by explaining their votes to entertainment outlets. It is interesting to see the patterns that emerge, how many people confess to voting for friends, mention the preferential balloting system, and talk about “throwing away” votes. No one By Sarah • Feb 21, 2019 12:07 pm
Entertainment self-care Entertainment Self-Care: Your Super-Soft Recommendations Last month we kicked off Entertainment Self-Care with “super-soft” TV, the shows and programs that help us wind down after a long, probably bad, day in our nightmare dystopia reality. Your response was overwhelming, with lots of great suggestions pouring in for more super-soft watching. So here are a few By Sarah • Feb 20, 2019 03:37 pm
Faux Gossip Do the Oscars have a secret host? This messy AF Oscar season will never end. The latest, with just four days until the ceremony, is that maybe the Oscars have a host after all, it’s just a SECRET HOST. This theory comes from Peter Knegt, who pondered on twitter whether or not Whoopi Goldberg might actually By Sarah • Feb 20, 2019 03:09 pm
Lucas Hedges Lucas Hedges’ interview prompts very important question Lucas Hedges is on the cover of GQ’s spring fashion issue. The interview is nice, and Hedges comes off well, if a bit in-his-head, the way young artists can be. The photo spread is fun, with looks ranging from “1980s triple-divorcee” to “thrift store grandpa”. I appreciate the younger By Sarah • Feb 20, 2019 12:42 pm
Gossip Nostalgia 90s Baes hash it out Macaulay Culkin and Devon Sawa were two of the biggest teen beat heartthrobs of the 1990s. Generation X got Johnny Depp, River Phoenix, and Then Keanu—who is pretty much the same as Now Keanu, to be fair. But for those of us slightly too young for Gen X’s By Sarah • Feb 19, 2019 04:20 pm
Music Can Rocketman do better than Bohemian Rhapsody? We’ve already gotten a look at Taron Egerton playing Sir Elton John in Rocketman, but here comes a new featurette meant to convince us he is not just doing Elton karaoke but is FULLY INHABITING THE SPIRIT OF SIR ELTON. This featurette is dedicated to showing off his singing— By Sarah • Feb 19, 2019 12:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rogen + Theron = unlikely rom-com Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron made a movie with the unlikely working title “Flarsky”. The movie was known to be a comedy, but the title was so WTF everyone sort of wondered if Rogen and his creative partner, Evan Goldberg, had maybe pushed things too far. Turns out: No. Retitled By Sarah • Feb 18, 2019 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Isn’t it Romantic is a feel-good rom-com parody Isn’t It Romantic has a slightly tortured concept, with a meta romantic comedy tucked inside a regular, straightforward romantic comedy. It’s part of the recently resurgent “brain damage leads to fantasy scenario” sub-genre of romantic movies (see also: Yesterday), and stars Rebel Wilson as the recipient of said By Sarah • Feb 14, 2019 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson is getting it done Brie Larson’s press tour for Captain Marvel has been solid. It’s the most interesting she’s been, and she has spoken astutely about what these kinds of big franchise roles mean when it comes to representation, as well as the cross-section of promotion and representation. She’s aiming By Sarah • Feb 13, 2019 03:44 pm
TV Updates Entertainment Self-Care: Slow TV Last month we kicked off a new feature we’re calling “entertainment self-care”, the things we’re watching to unwind from the nightmare dystopia we call reality. The first installment covered super-soft TV, and this time we’re going to talk about Slow TV. I found this category by accident By Sarah • Feb 12, 2019 04:22 pm
