Movie Reviews and Previews The Other Bombshell Recently, the title “Bombshell” has been most affiliated with Hedy Lamarr, who has been relaunched into public awareness largely thanks to a documentary called Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. However, there is a new Bombshell on the block, and it’s the story of Roger Ailes’ downfall starring Nicole Kidman, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Matrix, I guess? Live from the heart of the Keanuaissance, comes the shocking announcement that The Matrix 4 is happening, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively, and Lana Wachowski is returning to write, direct, and produce. Notably, her sister, Lilly Wachowski, is By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 11:48 am
Business of Hollywood The Spider-Man Custody Battle The most surprising entertainment marriage of the decade is the union between Sony and Marvel, who have co-produced Spider-Man together since rebooting the character in 2016 with Captain America: Civil War. Their marriage was medieval in that it was entirely about property acquisition, giving Marvel one of their By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 11:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond Word Salad Poor Bond 25. Every time to they try to get a little spotlight for themselves, they get Cats-trailered right off the internet. First it was doing a “live launch” of Bond 25 during Avengers-Winterfell Week, and now it’s getting booted out of the trending topics by Marvel, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2019 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Good Boys is actually good This summer has seen a greater than ever divide between the haves (Disney) and the have nots (everyone else) at the box office, but Good Boys opened over the weekend with $21 million, making it only the third original movie to top the box office THIS YEAR (yikes on bikes By Sarah • Aug 20, 2019 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart’s yikes movie Kristen Stewart has a lot on, at the moment. In a couple weeks she’ll be at Venice, then TIFF, for Seberg, and then she’ll make her official return to the mainstream with Charlie’s Angels. And then, in January, when she might be campaigning for trophies, she has By Sarah • Aug 19, 2019 12:11 pm
TV Live Blog Ewan’s do-over Two years ago, when Lucasfilm was in full-on Star Wars spin-off mode, there was a rumor that they were considering a solo film based on the young(er) Obi-Wan Kenobi. At the time, I said I was not interested unless Ewan McGregor reprised the role and finally By Sarah • Aug 16, 2019 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews GLOW is one of the best shows you’re not watching In its third season, GLOW finds itself in a rut. The show-within-a-show, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, has relocated to Las Vegas to do a stint as a floor show at the fictional Fan-Tan Casino. Rooted in one place and doing the same show every night becomes By Sarah • Aug 15, 2019 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Awkwafina gets her own franchise Awkwafina continues her amazing summer with the news that she is getting her own franchise. We learned at Comic-Con that she will co-star in Marvel’s Shang-Chi, and now she will star in her own potential franchise vehicle, The Last Adventure of Constance Verity, based on the By Sarah • Aug 13, 2019 04:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Kitchen is a mess There is nothing more frustrating than a movie that wastes a good premise AND a good cast: Welcome to The Kitchen, the most frustrating movie of 2019 (so far). Adapted from a comic book by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle, The Kitchen is the directorial debut of screenwriter Andrea Berloff By Sarah • Aug 13, 2019 03:04 pm
TV Updates Is The Crown tainted? Netflix’s royal soap opera, The Crown, returns on November 17. To date, it has been one of Netflix’s biggest success stories, though probably more for awards than ratings. (The Crown’s audience is comparable to traditional cable hits like Big Little Lies. season It’s nothing to sneeze By Sarah • Aug 12, 2019 03:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Scary Stories is about the power of stories Boy did those trailers do this movie no justice. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark adapts Alvin Schwartz’s books, famously and horrifically illustrated by Stephen Gammell, into a story about the power of stories, particularly how folklore is often wielded against women. Set in 1968, Scary Stories follows By Sarah • Aug 09, 2019 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Happy Anniversary, Spoiler Alert Marking movie anniversaries has become A Thing, and I’m not sure entirely what the point is except to make people feel old. Most movies aren’t actually worth lionizing in that way, but sometimes there is a movie milestone worth noticing (for example: it’s been 20 years since By Sarah • Aug 08, 2019 09:43 am
Amazingness Viral Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage is a great actor with DEEPLY WEIRD TASTE, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that he has gone viral recently for giving a bonkers performance in a direct-to-video gem called Never on Tuesday (for the young’uns, like Prem, who have probably never seen a By Sarah • Aug 07, 2019 03:47 pm
TV Updates Atlanta will eventually return The last episode of Atlanta aired over a year ago. It won’t be until some time in 2020 that Atlanta’s third season will air. Atlanta is a show that makes us wait. So it’s a minor relief that it has already been renewed for a fourth season, By Sarah • Aug 07, 2019 01:15 pm
TV Updates Is Colbert wasting Hannah Gadsby’s time? Hannah Gadsby had one of the biggest and best breakout moments of 2018 with her searing Netflix special, Nanette. That show, set up as a kind of two weeks’ notice to her comedy career, resulted in international acclaim, and she is now performing a new show, Douglas, off-Broadway (it By Sarah • Aug 07, 2019 11:31 am
