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
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
