Movie Reviews and Previews Revisiting Romeo Must Die’s best fight scenes As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Romeo Must Die, let us not overlook the wonderful and, frankly, WEIRD fight scenes that make up this movie. The RMD fight scenes are equal parts martial arts and slapstick buffoonery, and most of them have completely insane setups. I know RMD came By Sarah • Mar 20, 2020 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Romeo Must Die turns 20 There was a time, in the mid to late 1990s, when I would watch anything even tangentially related to Romeo and Juliet. No, this was not inspired by Romeo + Juliet, it was inspired by reading Romeo and Juliet in middle school (though when the movie came out just one year By Sarah • Mar 19, 2020 10:42 am
Music Pain & Pattinson Elysia just sent this over to me. Perfect way to end April Fool’s Day. But let’s get serious first, for real, no fooling. T-Pain is back. Without auto-tune. He tells Vulture that he struggled with depression for a while because of the criticism he received when the auto-tune By Lainey • Apr 01, 2015 04:29 pm
Aaliyah This is not Aaliyah Zendaya has pulled out of the Lifetime movie about Aaliyah. GOOD. Aaliyah’s family wasn’t happy with the project to begin with. Rumour has it they won’t release the rights to her music. And Zendaya confirmed as much last night at the BET Awards that that made a By Lainey • Jun 30, 2014 09:59 am
Music Baby Girl on Lifetime They’re making a movie about Aaliyah. It’s a tv movie. On Lifetime. Who’s playing her? Zendaya. I wasn’t happy about this this morning. So I emailed the only person I know who cares about Baby Girl as much as I do: Sasha (who’s in Paris By Lainey • Jun 18, 2014 04:29 pm
Benedict Cumberbatch How responsible are we, really? Reader Jackie sent an email this morning about Benedict Cumberbatch that basically boiled down to, “Benedict Cumberbatch seems to be skating along the edge of other people’s bad decisions, so when does that become a problem for him?” (Emphasis mine). Her examples: playing a white-washed role in Star Trek By Sarah • Dec 17, 2013 01:45 pm