Three wildfires have caused major destruction in Spokane, Washington. <p><strong>The Background</strong>: Riley Utley is the Weekend Editor at CinemaBlend. She has written for national publications as well as daily and alt-weekly newspapers in Spokane, Washington, Syracuse, New York and Charleston, South Carolina. She graduated with her master’s degree in arts journalism and communications from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Since joining the CB team she has covered numerous TV shows and movies -- including her personal favorite shows <em>Ted Lasso </em>and <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em>. She also has followed and consistently written about everything from Taylor Swift to <em>Fire Country</em>, and she's enjoyed every second of it. </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Into</strong>: Riley’s range in likes is random and wide, from Marvel to musicals and from<em> Game of Thrones</em> to the latest Netflix rom-com you can catch her watching just about anything. Her favorite movies include but are not limited to <em>When Harry Met Sally, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, Finding Nemo</em> and <em>The Grand Budapest Hotel</em>. She loves going to the movie theater, consuming copious amounts of popcorn and logging whatever she saw on Letterboxd immediately afterward. She constantly walks around quoting <em>Ted Lasso, SNL</em> and <em>Parks and Rec</em>. She has been known to create the occasional PowerPoint explaining the MCU to those who don’t get it. In the non-media realm, Riley is a massive college basketball fan. She is a firm believer that the Gonzaga men’s basketball team is the best team of all time, and she is patiently waiting for the day they finally win a national championship. She grew up in Washington and loves skiing, coffee and making sure that people know she is from the state, not D.C. </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>What She's Excited About Right Now</strong>: Anything Taylor Swift or Andrew Garfield does, finally seeing strong female representation in the MCU and eventually seeing Jonathan Bailey sing his heart out in <em>Wicked</em>. </p>
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This week, a slew of new character posters — and one dramatic new photo — from Netflix's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom were released into the world. The new adaptation of playwright August Wilson's 1982 play of the same name and is based, in part, on the life of actual "Mother of Blues" singer Ma Rainey. Notably, the Netflix period drama will serve as the late Chadwick Boseman's final on-screen appearance following his sudden passing in August. [caption id="attachment_938128" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] Viola Davis tackles the lead role of Ma Rainey in …
Four new posters for Legendary's Enola Holmes are here just one week before the Sherlock Holmes-adjacent YA feature debuts on Netflix. Adapted from a novel in Nancy Springer's book series of the same name by screenwriter Jack Thorne, Enola Holmes stars Millie Bobby Brown as the younger sister of Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft Holmes (Sam Claflin) who finds herself caught up in her own all-consuming mystery. These four new posters spotlight each member of the Holmes family and use the same pop art-ish aesthetic as the first poster featuring the entire cast. Brown, Cavill, …
Netflix has released a trailer for Challenger: The Final Flight, a four-part docuseries from executive producer J.J. Abrams that examines the 1986 Challenger space shuttle, which tragically broke apart 73 seconds after launch as millions of Americans -- many of them schoolchildren -- watched live on television. Rather than dwell on the tragedy, the series aims to celebrate the lives of the astronauts onboard, offering an in-depth look at one of the most diverse crews NASA has ever assembled. That crew included high school teacher Christa McAuliffe, who was selected to be the first private citizen in space. I …
With this being the final season of the NBC series Blindspot, the stakes are higher than ever, as Jane (Jaimie Alexander) and the surviving members of the former FBI taskforce remain on the run, without their usual gadgets and tech, and unable to turn to their list of allies for fear of putting them at risk. When Jane is shot and Weller (Sullivan Stapleton) is kidnapped and forced to fight some dark ghosts from his own past, the team must fight to save both of their lives. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, Aussie actor Sullivan Stapleton …
The New Mutants is one of the great cinematic curiosities of 2020, and the upcoming 20th Century superhero spinoff just got a new TV spot teaser that flaunts a surprisingly fun personality. Originally envisioned as a new direction for Fox's sprawling X-Men franchise, New Mutants was delayed for reshoots that never happened, got tangled up in the Disney/Fox merger, and now, the movie's about to hit theaters after Fox is no more (it's 20th Century now, tyvm), that X-Men franchise is seemingly dead, and Disney's MCU has never been more thriving. Up until …
If you've been a longtime reader of this site, then Hisonni Johnson's name may ring a bell or two. We've been following the multi-hyphenate's filmmaking career for some time, from the fandom-focused Grayson: Earth One back in 2013 up until now. And on this day, we're bringing his new film Take Out Girl to your attention ahead of its world premiere this weekend at the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, which kicks off today. From director/co-writer Johnson, who wrote the film with star Hedy Wong, comes a tale of the American …
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