TV Updates TV Review: Netflix’s The Crown The Crown is allegedly the most expensive TV show ever made— definitely the most expensive for Netflix to date—and its hefty price tag is obvious from the opening moments of the first episode. Every cent is up there on screen, with locations that take in the plains of South By Sarah • Nov 07, 2016 11:23 am
Dan Harmon Dan Harmon talked to himself Dan Harmon, of Community and Rick and Morty—and also uncredited rewrites on Doctor Strange—fame did a Reddit AMA in which one Redditor asked him what question he’d always wanted to be asked during a Q&A, and Harmon used the opening to challenge himself on inclusion. By Sarah • Nov 04, 2016 04:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman doesn’t quit The second trailer for Wonder Woman has been released, and building off the stellar first trailer it's more great action and Wonder Woman kicking men in the head. I really love how these trailers are looking, despite the Zack Snyder Grimdark Aesthetic, and I LOVE that music theme. By Sarah • Nov 04, 2016 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch IS Doctor Strange Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Stephen Strange, an arrogant neurosurgeon who is great at his job but terrible at everything else. He’s arrogant, rude, belittling, and selfish, and he’s mean to Rachel McAdams which is a shorthanded way of making a character instantly unlikeable. There’s a strong similarity By Sarah • Nov 03, 2016 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews BEHOLD, Beauty and the Beast Last year, I mentioned I was excited about Ewan McGregor starring in the live-action version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. But then, Duana, the resident musical dork, was unenthused by the teaser. Well now Entertainment Weekly has released the first image from the film—the iconic Yellow Dress By Sarah • Nov 02, 2016 02:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans and Jenny Slate barely look at each other Chris Evans and Jenny Slate met while filming a movie called Gifted last year. Then, in the early summer, Slate was getting divorced and hooking up with Evans, in a bit of timing that would have drawn a lot more side-eye if Evans was the one bailing on a marriage. By Sarah • Nov 01, 2016 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds and Jake G made a movie, apparently Did anyone notice this happening? Somehow Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal made a movie together and we didn’t notice. But the first trailer is here to prove that it happened. The movie is called Life and it’s about people trapped on a space station with an alien that By Sarah • Nov 01, 2016 11:22 am
Dumbass Chris Hemsworth acknowledges his ignorance Last year during a “Lone Ranger” themed costume party Chris Hemsworth—and his wife, Elsa Pataky—dressed up as Native Americans. As you can imagine, that didn’t over very well, but at the time, Hemsworth didn’t really say anything about it. But then, on Friday, he posted a By Sarah • Oct 31, 2016 09:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hanks in Inferno Inferno opens today. The franchise centered on Dan Brown’s religion-themed thrillers doesn’t have a catchy pop culture name, but I prefer to think of it as the “Decaf Indiana Jones” franchise. If Indiana Jones is a little too much—too much action, too much personality, too much style— By Sarah • Oct 28, 2016 10:27 am
Break Ups Johnny Depp’s other divorce It has not been a banner year for Johnny Depp. Alice Through the Looking Glass tanked, Amber Heard had the receipts, and he went through a high-profile divorce—Johnny Depp is yet another on the long list of people anxious for 2016 to take its bad juju and return to By Sarah • Oct 27, 2016 03:33 pm
TV Updates A slightly backwards Waco series In the gold rush of Peak TV, every network is scrambling for original scripted content, and Spike TV is the latest to throw their hat in the ring in the hopes of airing the next Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones. It was announced yesterday that Spike will air a By Sarah • Oct 27, 2016 11:07 am
Game of Thrones Ice and Fire If you’re the kind of person that doesn’t like to know anything about Game of Thrones while it’s filming, then this post is not for you. There are set photos, they’re not especially spoilery but they do show people standing together in ways suggestive of Important By Sarah • Oct 26, 2016 11:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Or, as I like to call it, Jack Reacher: Never Stop Running. Starring in the sequel four years after the original, just plain Jack Reacher, Cruise returns as Reacher, the former military policeman who runs hither and yon and also takes a lot of buses. In one memorable scene in By Sarah • Oct 24, 2016 04:06 pm
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds and his Deadpool director broke up Directors have left comic book movies before (see also: Edgar Wright/Ant-Man), but on Saturday morning the news broke that Tim Miller, the VFX producer who made his feature film debut directing Deadpool, had left the sequel, and it was Ryan Reynolds’ fault. Of course all the expected language is By Sarah • Oct 24, 2016 01:07 pm
The Walking Dead The Walking Dead: I Quit SPOILERS The producers behind The Walking Dead spent all summer promising that the arrival of the villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) would be a reset for the show, which is tacitly admitting that something had gone wrong and they needed a big new character to drive the show back on By Sarah • Oct 24, 2016 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kiki casts her boyfriend Kirsten Dunst is making her directorial debut with an adaptation of The Bell Jar, which is supposed to start shooting in early 2017. As such, it’s casting up right now and Dunst has done something men have done forever in Hollywood—she’s cast her lover in a lead By Sarah • Oct 20, 2016 05:21 pm
