TV Updates Ayo Edebiri: Envy and Emmy The Bear won a lot of Emmys back in January, but it’s important to remember that those were for its first season, even though it felt like it was for season two since the show comes out in the summer. And of course there was the strike delay pushing By Lainey • Jun 12, 2024 02:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More midnight margaritas! Today in Well No, We Don’t NEED It But Let Us Have It Anyway news, Warner Brothers Pictures announced that Practical Magic 2 is officially in development, 26 years after Practical Magic introduced the witchy Owens family and midnight margaritas to the masses. “In development” means early stages, but By Sarah • Jun 12, 2024 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside People Outside Inside Out 2 opens this week, and even though I really like Inside Out, I just cannot get the sequel’s existence to stick in my mind. It has an enormous cast—as evidenced by the premiere’s turnout—and it’s been nine years since the original’s release, By Sarah • Jun 11, 2024 11:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ariana Grande: Cat and Boy Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine has been on steady play in my household. I like it a lot but it’s Jacek who can’t get enough of it. Also where I live “We Can’t Be Friends” is on heavy rotation, so I feel like I’m personally exposed By Lainey • Jun 10, 2024 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pharrell’s happy pieces Pharrell Williams has been working on an animated film for the last several years. Initially conceived as an original collaboration between Pharrell and Minions studio Illumination, the project ultimately became a biographical documentary about Pharrell, produced in the LEGO style, and it shifted over to Focus Features, which shares NBCUniversal By Sarah • Jun 07, 2024 01:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride or Die Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so is whether or not you’re going to enjoy Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth entry into the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as a pair of wise-cracking but tough Miami detectives. Ride or Die By Sarah • Jun 07, 2024 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Catching up with MaXXXine Over the last couple of years, filmmaker Ti West, who got his start with low budget horror flicks The Roost and Trigger Man before breaking out with 2009’s double bill of The House of the Devil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, has quietly become one of American cinema’ By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 03:19 pm
Style Dakota back in Ralphcore At this point, yes, I am just trolling Maria by setting her up for requests for “As Seen On Social Media”. Dakota Johnson is back on the set of Materialists in New York, rocking new outfits for Maria to source. One should be easy, it’s just classic jeans and By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bikie Austin Australians call bikers “bikies” which I will never not find funny. Bikies! It’s like talking to your dog about going on a ride, Do you want to go on bikies? I bring this up because Austin Butler is in Australia promoting The Bikeriders, which legit makes sense because Oz By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 10:13 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Cailee Spaeny’s busy year Following the trailer for Venom: The Last Dance, which is technically a movie about an alien that latches onto humans to survive, Disney/20th Century Studios (Fox, you are missed) released a new trailer for Alien: Romulus. This is the latest film in the Alien franchise, it comes from filmmaker By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 03:24 pm
Style Dakota and Chris again Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans continue work on Celine Song’s Materialists in New York, and I am highlighting these set photos mainly because it’s funny to me that every time Dakota pops up on set, someone asks Maria to source her wardrobe, including in today's As By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 01:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Venom is the little franchise that could We have talked plenty about Sony’s attempts to launch an MCU-adjacent, live-action “Spider-Man Universe of Marvel Character” (SPUMC, lol), with films such as Morbius and Madame Web, and how it never goes well for them…except in the case of Venom. In 2018, Tom Hardy’s passion project—seriously, By Sarah • Jun 04, 2024 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Another batch of Marvel reshoots Captain America: Brave New World, the fourth Cap film in which Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes over as Captain America, wrapped principal photography last spring. But then post-production got dinged by the dual labor strikes last summer—presumably chiefly affecting their ability to do reshoots—so the Marvel brain By Sarah • Jun 04, 2024 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews No one wants the Trump movie Ali Abassi’s film about a younger Donald Trump and his business daddy, Roy Cohn, The Apprentice, debuted at Cannes to generally good reviews. The film stars Jeremy Strong in his first post-Succession screen role, Sebastian Stan, and Maria Bakalova, plus Abassi is a generally admired filmmaker whose last film, By Sarah • Jun 03, 2024 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Expanding the Knives Out 3 fantasy cast Knives Out 3, officially titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, continues casting apace. On top of recent additions Andrew Scott, Josh O’Connor, and Cailee Spaeny, Glenn Close has joined the cast—will she play a patrician matriarch or a kook?—as have Jeremy Renner and Mila By Sarah • May 31, 2024 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Now it’s Chris’s turn Filming of Celine Song’s Materialists continues in New York, and I thought I was the only one salivating over maybe-single Dakota Johnson’s character’s wardrobe, but apparently, a bunch of you asked Maria to source her fits, so I am not alone in wanting all of these clothes. By Sarah • May 31, 2024 01:23 pm
