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
TV Updates Exploring Russian Doll’s labyrinth of trauma You have now had two entire weekends to watch Russian Doll, so the spoiler-gloves are off. If you still haven’t seen it, stick with the spoiler-free review, but if you have, let’s dig into the show’s serpentine coil of story and allegory. This show’s repeating-day structure By Sarah • Feb 12, 2019 01:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The LEGO Movie 2: worn a little thin The LEGO Movie was a surprise hit—no one expected an obvious and crass commercial ploy like this would ever work—which, naturally, started a franchise. 2017 saw two LEGO spin-offs, The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Ninjago movie, which was an up-and-down experience. Batman did fine, but Ninjago By Sarah • Feb 12, 2019 11:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt should just take the L and move on Today in I Knew This Sh-t Was Never Happening news, Paramount has officially put the kibosh on World War Z 2, the would-be sequel to Brad Pitt’s disastrous World War Z adaptation. Originally slated to be directed by JA Bayona and released in 2017, the project ended up passing By Sarah • Feb 07, 2019 10:28 am
TV Updates Have you watched Russian Doll yet? It’s only eight, half-hour episodes. Extremely bingeable. Have you watched yet? In case you haven’t the in-depth, spoiler-laden review will be coming next week, giving more people a chance to see it. For now, let’s just talk about Russian Doll as an achievement in allegorical storytelling. The By Sarah • Feb 06, 2019 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brie Larson embraces her inner Captain Marvel I had a lot of doubts about Brie Larson from the moment she was cast as Captain Marvel. Not doubts about her acting—she is a good actress. But she’s much younger than Carol Danvers is normally portrayed, and she didn’t seem like Carol, not the messy Carol By Sarah • Feb 06, 2019 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The most misguided Sharon Tate movie? I’m already not-so-low-key worried about Quentin Tarantino’s take on Sharon Tate and the Tate murders, which will be featured in some fashion in his upcoming film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But maybe Tarantino isn’t the one we need to be worried about. Maybe we really By Sarah • Feb 05, 2019 12:58 pm
Douchebags Liam Neeson said WHAT Well this is something no one could have ever seen coming. During possibly the worst interview in history while promoting his latest “middle-aged guy kicks all the ass” action movie, Cold Pursuit, Liam Neeson talked about revenge, and his once-upon-a-time desire to exact it on a black man. If you By Sarah • Feb 05, 2019 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Scary Stories to wreck you for life Raise your hand if Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark completely f-cked you up for life. Thanks to the Scholastic Book Fair, I got all of those nightmare tomes long before I should have been allowed to read them—where were the adults in my life?!—and now I By Sarah • Feb 04, 2019 04:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sassy toys being sassy We got another look at Toy Story 4 during the Super Bowl, this time introducing new toys Bunny and Ducky, voiced by Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael-Key, respectively, and also a look at revamped Bo Peep (Annie Potts returns!). This is a fun and funny clip, with none of the By Sarah • Feb 04, 2019 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Higher Further Faster, Baby Captain Marvel released its best teaser/trailer yet during the Super Bowl. I wish we could go back in time and have this be the first teaser, and then build up from there because this is a great tone to strike for Carol Danvers. It’s exhilarating and cool and By Sarah • Feb 04, 2019 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sadvengers want revenge A new teaser for Avengers: Endgame dropped during the Super Bowl and I have been thinking about it for several hours and have come to a conclusion: It makes no sense that Captain America shaved his beard. If anything, he should be even more hirsute now than he was in By Sarah • Feb 04, 2019 11:22 am
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones and Bud Light – surprise Super Bowl commercial Game of Thrones and Bud Light win the award for Most WTF Super Bowl crossover event. I guess when you need to promote the final season of your smash hit show, but you don’t want to give anything away and sit on as much footage as possible, the only By Sarah • Feb 04, 2019 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hobbs & Shaw is all I ever wanted Back when Fate of the Furious came out, I noted that the best part of the movie was the bit with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. From that moment, all I wanted from this dumb franchise was more of The Rock and Stath. The Fast Furious gods must have heard By Sarah • Feb 01, 2019 12:43 pm
Amazingness Tom Cruise at an award show you’ve never heard of As proof that are more award shows than you could ever possibly know of or care about, Tom Cruise made an appearance at the Lumiere Awards this week. Isn’t that a French award show, you ask, like the Golden Globes to the French Oscar, the César? No, that’s By Sarah • Jan 31, 2019 04:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Batfleck is done Once upon a time, Ben Affleck was going to make a Batman movie. A lot of us assumed he took the Batman gig specifically because he would get to make a Batman movie. Then, as his run of movies as the caped crusader started rolling out and dividing audiences and By Sarah • Jan 31, 2019 11:29 am
