Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Poehler doesn’t answer the biggest question Netflix doesn’t often do big press pushes for their movies—Roma set a standard for awards potential, but outside of that, it’s like Netflix releases one trailer, then bang, the next week the movie is on the platform with little other fanfare. But Amy Poehler’s Wine Country By Sarah • Apr 25, 2019 09:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers have made their mark Avengers: Endgame opens in two days and I CAN’T WAIT TO TALK ABOUT IT. Infinity War was not a movie I felt compelled to discuss after the fact, but oh boy are we going to be talking about Endgame. One reason to talk about it is that this is By Sarah • Apr 24, 2019 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan’s runner up blue Even though Bucky is, technically, a pile of dust, Sebastian Stan turned up at the Avengers: Endgame premiere. His blue suit is runner up to Taika Waititi’s on my favorite looks of the night roster. The two suits are similar in tone, but Taika’s is definitely lilac, and By Sarah • Apr 23, 2019 05:01 pm
Does anyone have more fun than Taika? Rhetorical question, the answer is “no”. Taika Waititi was also at the Avengers: Endgame premiere, in a lilac suit. He is in second place for my favorite suit of the night. I love this shade of lilac, he looks as good as ever, and would you believe it, he actually By Sarah • Apr 23, 2019 12:39 pm
Quiveration Space heroes on the BIV spectrum Oh my god the purple carpet was SO BIG at the Avengers: Endgame premiere last night. It felt a little like the Oscars, or the Met Gala, or Cannes, or any event, really, where it’s just constant “this person! And this person! THAT person!”. Lainey and I were emailing By Sarah • Apr 23, 2019 09:20 am
TV Updates Our new bird BFFs One of Tiffany Haddish’s many, many projects is a Netflix cartoon called Tuca & Bertie. We heard about it a while ago, and now there is a trailer ahead of the show’s May 3 premiere. (WHY IS EVERYTHING HAPPENING AT ONCE. SAVE SOME STUFF FOR LATER. WE HAVE By Sarah • Apr 22, 2019 03:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Idris Elba is “black Superman” As previously stated, I am SUPER ON BOARD with Hobbs & Shaw, the Fast/Furious spin-off focused on The Rock and Jason Statham. I am 100% in the tank for this movie, I don’t care if it’s good or bad because those are relative terms that do By Sarah • Apr 22, 2019 03:05 pm
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones: Everyone sing along, we’re all going to die SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY Usually the big battle in a Game of Thrones season falls toward the end of the season, often in the penultimate episode, but this year, it is clear the big battle is coming in the front half, as we spend all of the second episode teeing up the By Sarah • Apr 22, 2019 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews But first, Kristen Stewart does this Earlier this week we got a look at Kristen Stewart’s return to the mainstream with Charlie’s Angels, but first, she has another indie film coming out. She co-stars in JT Leroy, a movie about the literary scandal of the early aughts, when celebrated author JT Leroy was By Sarah • Apr 18, 2019 12:09 pm
Game of Thrones Samwell Tarly’s WTF face Images from the next episode of Game of Thrones have been released, and it looks like Winterfell is gearing up for a fight. Lyanna Mormont is dressed for battle, Grey Worm and Missandei look intense, everyone is standing around, looking intense. There’s a tease of Jaime’s trial, and By Sarah • Apr 18, 2019 09:40 am
Equality Issues Yalitza Aparicio on the TIME 100 This makes more sense than Richard Madden. Yalitza Aparicio, the first-time actor at the center of Roma, and also the first indigenous-Latin American to be nominated for an Oscar, broke through some barriers in the acting world. Alfonso Cuaron, who directed her in Roma, writes up her blurb, By Sarah • Apr 17, 2019 03:19 pm
Richard Madden Are we pre-Bond-ing Richard Madden? Richard Madden is on the TIME 100 this year. Why, exactly? I like Madden as much as the next person, but what has he done to put him on this list? Bodyguard was popular for a minute, and it did break him out of the Game of Thrones bubble—is By Sarah • Apr 17, 2019 12:14 pm
Robert Downey-Jr Get emotional with Endgame To mark ten days until Avengers: Endgame—now nine—Marvel released another trailer, this one including clips from every movie leading up to Endgame. Yes, even Incredible Hulk, the Marvel movie everyone forgets about! Endgame doesn’t need its wheels greased any more than they already are, but man, this By Sarah • Apr 17, 2019 09:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brace yourself for The Perfection If you told me that among the women of Girls, ALLISON WILLIAMS would have the most interesting post-show career, I would not have believed you. Her? I would say. The basic preppy one? HER? Yet, this is what has happened. Post-Girls, Allison Williams has built an interesting, genre- By Sarah • Apr 16, 2019 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hello Angels Elizabeth Banks’ officially-a-sequel-and-not-a-reboot Charlie’s Angels is coming out later this year, and we have some brightly colored photos to look at and start judging. The photos focus on Kristen Stewart as Sabina (GREAT NAME), Naomi Scott as Elena, Ella Balinska as Jane, and By Sarah • Apr 16, 2019 09:35 am
Maple Leaf Keanu Reeves is front and center and as unknowable as ever In the midst of Avengers: Endgame madness, it’s easy to forget this is just the first big movie of summer, and there are other movies coming out. One of those movies is John Wick: Chapter 3 and to remind us of this fact, Keanu Reeves is on the cover By Sarah • Apr 15, 2019 02:50 pm
