Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s most popular rom-coms about two people who can’t stand each other being tricked into seeing one another with new eyes so that they fall in love, thus relieving their friends and families of their constant bickering. Anyone But You is By Sarah • Jan 03, 2024 12:48 pm
Douchebags New year, new bad man New year, new day, new bad man alert! On December 21, 2023, Asta Jonasson filed a lawsuit in California against Vin Diesel alleging, in part, sexual battery and wrongful termination. In 2010, Ms. Jonasson was hired to work as an assistant to Diesel, who was in Atlanta filming Fast Five. By Sarah • Jan 02, 2024 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Momoa in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is a follow-up to the improbable 2018 hit, Aquaman, and much like that film, Lost Kingdom is not as bad as expected. Now, to be clear, the bar was on the floor. But Lost Kingdom swims easily on a current of good times and excellent By Sarah • Dec 22, 2023 02:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney has gone full Dad Movie When you think of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and an underdog sports story from America about an unlikely competitor winning against the odds on Hitler’s home turf and showing up the Nazis, who do you think of? If you said Jesse Owens “the white boys from Washington state”, you’ By Sarah • Dec 22, 2023 12:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Adam Driver in Ferrari Director Michael Mann returns after an eight-year hiatus with Ferrari, a biopic of legendary automotive engineer and designer Enzo Ferrari. Adapted from Brock Yates’ biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine by Troy Kennedy Martin, Ferrari is a sometimes frustrating snapshot of a man who shaped By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KStew’s other Sundance film Kristen Stewart has a long history with the Sundance Film Festival, which they’re recognizing by giving her the Visionary Award on opening night in January. She has two films in the fest, Love Me with Steven Yeun, and Love Lies Bleeding, which will premiere in the Midnight Madness lineup. By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 12:15 pm
Business of Hollywood Another ill-advised merger Today in Thanks, I Hate It news, David Zaslav and Bob Bakish reportedly met (over lunch) earlier this week to discuss a merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global. Zaslav you know as the guy who gets booed everywhere he goes, and Bakish was named CEO of Viacom in By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lulu Wang is back Lulu Wang’s follow-up to The Farewell is (finally) here, and it’s a flashy limited series with Nicole Kidman called Expats. Based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s novel The Expatriates, the series follows three American women living in Hong Kong as their lives intersect around a personal tragedy. By Sarah • Dec 20, 2023 10:37 am
Legal issues Jonathan Majors is guilty and fired Earlier this week, Jonathan Majors was found guilty on two counts stemming from his domestic violence arrest in March, one of reckless assault in the third degree, and one of harassment, both are misdemeanors. Majors is set to be sentenced in February and could face up to one year in By Sarah • Dec 20, 2023 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron in The Iron Claw In the 1970s and 1980s, Saturday nights at the Dallas Sportatorium was the home to a regional wrestling outfit run by Jack Adkisson and dominated by his sons, known as the Von Erichs. Jack himself wrestled as Fritz Von Erich, he had middling success and never won a world heavyweight By Sarah • Dec 19, 2023 01:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bikeriders’ new strategy One of the films I was most looking forward to this year is Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, an adaptation of Danny Lyon’s seminal photo essay charting the rise of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club (rebranded for the film as the “Vandals”). The first trailer dropped three months ago, on By Sarah • Dec 19, 2023 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney in two hemispheres I have said it before, but I do not understand time, I’m not sure I ever did, and now these photos of Sydney Sweeney are f-cking me up. She was photographed on Saturday, December 16 leaving Los Angeles with her fiancé, Jonathan Davino, in tow. She was then photographed By Sarah • Dec 18, 2023 11:27 am
What Else What Else? Prince Harry won one of his phone hacking lawsuits in England, this one against Mirror Group Newspapers, which publishes The Daily Mirror. A judge ruled that Harry be awarded about $180,000 in damages, and that Harry’s personal phone was “targeted” between 2003-2009. Further, the judge said that Piers By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet in Wonka On the scale of “Cats” and “Not Cats”, Wonka is “Not Cats”. It’s actually…kind of good? Starring Timothee Chalamet as a young, literally fresh-off-the boat Willy Wonka, and directed by Paul King and co-written by King and Simon Farnaby—the team behind Paddington 2—Wonka is a musical By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 03:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews But what IS IF? Even as he continues working on Deadpool 3 with Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds has other projects on the hob—he always does, he is a BUSY guy. He legit seems to be the type who thrives on having a lot of plates spinning at any given moment. His latest is By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 12:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Poor Things and Ramy Youssef’s big year Poor Things opened to the third-best specialty box office of the year, but it’s real test comes one week from today, when it expands into wide release just in time for the holidays. It then opens in Europe in January, and to that end, there was a gala screening By Sarah • Dec 15, 2023 10:41 am
