| Movies, Mindy Kaling, Ms. Marvel, The MCU By Chelsea Steiner on Wed,11:47 Last week, Marvel's Kevin Feige told the BBC that plans for a big screen adaptation of the popular series Ms. Marvel were "definitely sort of" in the works. Now, your boyfriend Riz Ahmed has taken to Twitter to assemble an all-star team to write the film, recruiting Mindy Kaling and Kumail Nanjiani to bring Kamala Khan to the big screen. Read More > Movies, solo: a star wars story, Star Wars (franchise), Thandie Newton By Princess Weekes on Wed,11:34 Thandie Newton knows how to make a statement in a gown. When Solo: A Star Wars Story was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last night, Newton came dressed in a custom Vivienne Westwood gown with action-figure likenesses of all the black Star Wars characters that have appeared on screen before her. Read More > Movies, Donald Glover, Lando Calrissian, Star Wars (franchise) By Teresa Jusino on Wed,11:26 Ever since Donald Glover's casting was announced for Solo, my first thought was, But what about a Lando movie? Turns out, Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm's answer to that, despite being partly lost in translation, is: Sure. Read More > Big on the Internet, illusion By Dan Van Winkle on Wed,10:25 Listen closely. What do you hear? That's right; it's the name of the post-apocalyptic internet gang you've been assigned to for our Thunderdome-style battles. Read More > Movies, Avengers: Infinity War, romance, shipping, The MCU By Princess Weekes on Wed,8:25 When it comes relationships, we all have some we could take it or leave it, but the bromances, the father/son narratives, the sibling stuff, all of that is so much more interesting than who kisses who. Read More > Movies, BlacKkKlansman, racism, Spike Lee, things we saw today By Teresa Jusino on Tue,6:06 "We have a guy in the White House who had a chance to say we are about love and not about hate," Lee said after the premiere of his film, BlacKkKlansman. Read More > News, rape culture, sexual assault, Uber By Teresa Jusino on Tue,5:26 Uber's sexist policies within their company, as well as their bad habit of hiring drivers that have a tendency to sexually assault their customers have long been public knowledge. To be honest, I don't know why people still continue to use them, but here we are. In order to "do better" (or at least give that impression), Uber is now changing policies it should never have had in the first place. Yay? Read More > AMP Featured, Movies, Han Solo, reviews, solo: a star wars story By Kaila Hale-Stern on Tue,5:00 Solo is a caper of a movie—really, a series of capers—that takes you through a galaxy far, far away mostly unconcerned with intergalactic warfare, the balance of light and dark Force-sides, or anyone named Skywalker. Solo wants to have fun, and it succeeds. Read More > Movies, Black Panther, Honest Trailers, Marvel Entertainment By Teresa Jusino on Tue,4:43 We knew it was coming, and we're so happy it did. Honest Trailers finally tackled one of our favorite movies of the year: Black Panther. Read More > Sponsored, The Mary Sue Shop By Diana Vilbert on Tue,3:51 WordPress powers almost half of the websites in the entire world, and for good reason—it’s versatile, powerful, and easy to customize once you learn your way around. We can help with that part. Get the WordPress Essentials Lifetime Bundle for $19 at the Mary Sue Shop. Read More > TV, Jada Pinkett Smith, self-harm, Willow Smith By Teresa Jusino on Tue,3:03 On a recent episode of their Facebook Watch show Red Table Talk, Willow Smith, her mother Jada Pinkett-Smith, and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones, addressed the topic of loss, and the youngest at the table revealed something shocking to her mother and grandmother for the first time. [CW: discussion of self-harming behavior] Read More > TV, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend By Lareign Ward on Tue,3:01 The critically-loved CW comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is interested in the uglier side of the One True Pairing, or OTP. Read More > Movies, Avengers: Infinity War, Howard the Duck, the russo brothers By Kaila Hale-Stern on Tue,2:28 The Russo Brothers, the directing team that will be receiving a bill to treat my emotional distress post-Infinity War, aren't done killing yet. Here're a few more characters who bit the dust or made it through The Snapture. Read More > Movies, solo: a star wars story, Star Wars (franchise) By Dan Van Winkle on Tue,1:24 Oh god, I'm so sorry, everyone. I wished so hard that we could have had Solo: A Star Wars Story featuring an actual young Harrison Ford, and it seems only the darkest forces in the universe heard me. Now, I must inflict this on all of you: an insta-nope version of the Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer with Harrison Ford's face placed over Alden Ehrenreich's. Read More > TV, Clayne Crawford, Damon Wayans, toxic masculinity By Princess Weekes on Tue,12:34 Wayans took to Twitter to provide receipts of injuries he got due to Crawford's direction on set. Read More > |
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