Movie Reviews and Previews Marvel’s Asian-American hero After years of not prioritizing any voice or story other than white dudes, Marvel is now full steam ahead on the diversity express. Thanks to the success of Black Panther—and due in no small part to Ike Perlmutter’s control being loosened on the movie studio—they have greenlit By Sarah • Dec 03, 2018 03:39 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus baby name formula I forgot Norman Reedus and Diane Kruger are a thing. They’ve been together for a couple of years now, but they generally keep a low profile, so they just kind of slipped out of my celebrity-couple brain space. (Which is mostly occupied by Zendalland , anyway.) And they have a By Sarah • Nov 30, 2018 12:10 pm
Quiveration Richard Madden wouldn’t mind being 007 Even though we’re still two years away from seeing Daniel Craig’s last turn as James Bond, we cannot stop speculating about the next 007, you know, the one that is, like, five years from being a real thing. To that end, Richard Madden is British GQ’s January By Sarah • Nov 30, 2018 10:26 am
TV Updates Awkwafina’s own show Awkwafina has had a big year, with Ocean’s 8, Crazy Rich Asians, an EP (In Fina We Trust), and hosting SNL, the iHeartRadio MMVAs, and the Hollywood Film Awards. And now, to cap it off, comes the announcement that Awkwafina will star in her own comedy series on Comedy By Sarah • Nov 29, 2018 03:18 pm
Business of Hollywood Tech is either saving or killing movies Depending on who you talk to, tech companies investing in and/or partnering with film companies is either the end of cinema as we know it or the savior of the mid-budget movie. We still haven’t decided whether or not something shown on Netflix qualifies as a movie, so By Sarah • Nov 28, 2018 03:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Green Book’s precarious Oscar position Back in September, Green Book won the audience award at TIFF. This set it up as an Oscar front-runner, and it seemed like an inevitable Best Picture nominee. It’s a middle-of-the-road movie about race made to make white people feel good, a la Driving Miss Daisy, The Blind Side, By Sarah • Nov 28, 2018 10:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx in Robin Hood (Lainey: The headlines about Robin Hood aren’t great. Forbes calls it the “most predictable box office bomb” of the year. The Telegraph says it’s the “biggest box office bomb since Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur”. According to Business Insider, it’s the “biggest box office bomb of the By Sarah • Nov 27, 2018 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Colman, Weisz, and Stone in The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos is not interested in teaching a history lesson, so The Favourite is an historical drama heavier on drama than historicity. Telling the story of Queen Anne, Sarah Marlborough, and Abigail Hill, The Favourite takes a series of events and bends and twists them into a tale of power, By Sarah • Nov 23, 2018 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lion King is coming for our money Disney already gets most of our money, what with Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and their revolving door of animated classics being turned into live action films. This year alone they’ve taken $4 billion off us with just Marvel and Pixar. But that’s not enough. It will never be By Sarah • Nov 23, 2018 10:40 am
Award Season Campaigning Team Kidman and Boy Erased at the Governors Awards (Lainey: Nicole Kidman is currently promoting Boy Erased. In a couple of weeks she’ll be promoting Destroyer. Gold Derby just asked her about the possibility of being nominated for both Best Actress and Supporting Actress in the same year - it’s rare, but it’s not impossible…and By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 04:22 pm
Award Season Campaigning Wakanda Campaigns: Team Black Panther at the Governors Awards The citizens of Wakanda turned out for the Governor Awards, with Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o, and Michael B. Jordan on hand. We’ll leave MBJ for Kathleen, because I like my life and don’t want to lose it. As is usual with Wakandans, everyone looks super By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 02:38 pm
TV Updates Claire Foy works her odds Claire Foy co-hosted the Evening Standard Theater Awards over the weekend, showing up in a McQueen that I wish was either not off the shoulder, or had shorter sleeves, one or the other, because right now the sleeves are doing too much. Foy is enjoying the last days of her By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 12:15 pm
Harry Potter The Crimes of Grindelwald are many, and great In my review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, I wrote, “A movie where Newt does a silly mating dance with a glowy rhinoceros does not also need to contain a bleak storyline about an abusive orphanage matron who whips the closeted wizard in her care. They’re By Sarah • Nov 19, 2018 09:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Mantzoukas gets his due Almost two years ago I wrote, “[Jason Mantzoukas] is WAY overdue for his own starring vehicle.” The everywhere That Guy of comedy, Mantzoukas has popped up on sitcoms like The League, Parks & Rec, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place,Transparent, and Big Mouth, and in movies like The Night Before By Sarah • Nov 16, 2018 02:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sad Clown Dumbo Disney’s quest to remake all their classic animated films into live action money grabs continues with Dumbo, Tim Burton’s reimagining of the timeless tale of animal cruelty in the circus. Want to see a baby elephant ripped from its mother? Go see Dumbo! Want to see large animals By Sarah • Nov 16, 2018 09:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Florence Pugh is everywhere Florence Pugh broke out with Lady Macbeth in 2016, and now, as is wont to happen, she is everywhere. She is currently on Netflix, being underutilized in Outlaw King. She will next be seen in The Little Drummer Girl with Alexander Skarsgard, and she is filming Greta Gerwig’s new By Sarah • Nov 15, 2018 03:42 pm
