Theatre Nerd The Stars come out for Othello The new staging of Othello, the first on Broadway since 1982, set a box office record for a play in previews. They’re coming for Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Shakespeare, probably in that order. Some tickets are going for as much as US$920 – which shouldn’t be a By Lainey • Mar 24, 2025 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels has its moments The Marvels might be the first Marvel movie that doesn’t need a villain. At a brisk 105 minutes, The Marvels is the shortest film in the MCU to date, but it still suffers from being overstuffed and heavy on clunky exposition, as many Marvel movies are, no matter their By Sarah • Nov 10, 2023 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Marvels’ not-Comic Con trailer Undoubtedly taking advantage of Barbenheimer weekend—and hinting at what a Marvel Comic Con appearance could have been—Marvel dropped a new trailer for The Marvels just in time to stick it in front of at least one of the two big new movies this weekend. Building on the good By Sarah • Jul 21, 2023 01:41 pm
TV Updates Oh yeah! Secret Invasion! I 100% forgot that Marvel’s Secret Invasion debuts on Disney+ this month. Literally, completely forgot, until photos from the premiere in Los Angeles yesterday popped up. So, just to remind everyone, Secret Invasion drops on June 21, and includes six episodes. They’re promising this a sort-of return to By Sarah • Jun 14, 2023 12:49 pm
TV Updates The Secret Invasion has begun We’re a month out from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but we’re already having the next shiny Marvel thing dangled before us like keys to distract an infant. The full trailer for Secret Invasion, the Disney+ series starring Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, dropped Sunday night By Sarah • Apr 03, 2023 11:33 am
Oscars 2022 The Chaoscars When I dubbed the 2022 Oscars the “Chaoscars”, I didn’t mean it like this! And look, we’ll talk about the biggest story of the night in its own post, but for now, let’s start with everything else and how this was a truly terrible Oscars from start By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 05:45 am
TV Updates Emilia Clarke and Samuel L. Jackson on set Here are photos of Emilia Clarke and Samuel L. Jackson in Leeds filming Secret Invasion, one of the (many) Disney+ Marvel shows expected later this year. Jackson is reprising the role of Nick Fury, who appears to be incognito here, sporting a bushy beard and a watch cap, which is By Sarah • Jan 25, 2022 02:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Screaming nonsense in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard In 2017, I called The Hitman’s Bodyguard “super, super dumb”, “charmingly sh*tty”, and “brainless, dumb-fun escapism at its best”. Through commitment to a dumb premise and solid chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, The Hitman’s Bodyguard propelled itself to blockbuster status, an increasingly rare achievement By Sarah • Jun 15, 2021 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Soderbergh assembles a new team When Steven Soderbergh puts together a team, he does not hold back. Ocean’s 11 features one of the great Cool Guy ensembles of the 21st century, including one of Hollywood’s great Cool Girls, Julia Roberts. And while everyone remembers the heat-seeking chemistry of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez By Sarah • Jun 09, 2021 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews More Ryan Reynolds in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard The Hitman’s Bodyguard was one of 2017’s success stories: an original, Black Listed script that survived a last-minute genre change—from drama to action comedy—to become a breakout hit, amassing over $176 million against a $30 million budget, and it helped cement Ryan Reynolds’ as an action By Sarah • Apr 14, 2021 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Apple TV+ enters award season Yesterday the first trailer for The Banker dropped. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie as a pair of would-be bankers who, because of racial prejudice, train a white guy (Nicholas Hoult) to stand in for them as the owner of their bank, so it’s BlacKkKlansman for By Sarah • Nov 05, 2019 02:05 pm
Relationship Assumption Gwyneth Paltrow’s “best-kept secret” WSJ Magazine just profiled Brad Falchuk, calling him “Hollywood’s Best-Kept Secret” and, well, you know what that means. It means that Gwyneth Paltrow is married to “Hollywood’s Best-Kept Secret”. She’s married to a power producer in the industry, who’s the frequent collaborator of a major power By Lainey • Aug 13, 2019 12:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal in Spider-Man: Far From Home Spider-Man: Homecoming works about as well as a “standalone” movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe can (none of these movies truly stand alone, but some pass better than others). Its sequel, Spider-Man: Far From Home, however, does not stand alone at all. It is well and truly a coda to By Sarah • Jul 03, 2019 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel punches the patriarchy Captain Marvel is an oddity by way of being the first solo-led superheroine movie produced by Marvel Studios. Eleven years and twenty movies on from Iron Man, they finally entrust a story entirely to a woman, and the result is, much like Black Panther, special by virtue of being different. By Sarah • Mar 08, 2019 09:32 am
BFFs Hanging out with Brie and Sam Sarah’s review of Captain Marvel will go up tomorrow. I saw it a couple of weeks ago. Quick reaction: I had a good time as soon as Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson started hanging out. They are GREAT together. They’re the superhero BFFs I never expected. Maybe By Lainey • Mar 07, 2019 09:32 am
Oscars 2019 Do The Right Thing, Oscars The Oscars did right by Spike Lee in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. As we’ve established, it did not “do the right thing” in its choice for Best Picture. The most outspoken critic of Green Book’s win was Spike himself, who many outlets are reporting “stormed out” of By Kathleen • Feb 25, 2019 05:21 am
