Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders is a Phenomenal First Feature We are wrapping up TIFF 2021 with Danis Goulet’s feature directorial debut, Night Raiders, a future-set dystopia with YA undertones and an Indigenous bent. Written and directed by Goulet, Night Raiders is set in a near future in which it is implied that America has conquered Canada for resources By Sarah • Sep 23, 2021 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson have entered the race Whew, this awards season is so crowded. On the heels of Nightmare Alley, Belfast, and The Tragedy of Macbeth comes the trailer for Passing, Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Passing was one of the Sundance stand-outs this year, based on Nella Larsen’s By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 02:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Macbeth Needs No Introduction One of the surefire heavy hitters of awards season is The Tragedy of Macbeth, a new adaptation of the Scottish play from Joel Coen (working for the first time in his career without his brother, Ethan). Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, we now have our first, brief, look at By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 01:07 pm
TV Updates Kathryn Hahn’s next move Kathryn Hahn was widely expected to win an Emmy on Sunday night, but in one of the evening’s few genuine upsets, Julianne Nicholson won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series Etc. Hahn will just have to settle for her MTV popcorns and being everyone’s favorite right now. By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 11:10 am
Get to know Jim Cummings The list of filmmakers who could put out a new movie and I’d watch it, no questions asked, sight unseen is pretty short, but at the top of that list sits Jim Cummings, the filmmaker behind Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow (one of my best films By Sarah • Sep 21, 2021 11:24 am
Emmy Awards 2021 Emmys Best Dressed (Sarah): Anya Taylor-Joy Anya Taylor-Joy has rapidly become a red carpet star, delivering one stunning look after another aided by her stylist, Law Roach, and the Emmys were no different. She showed up in a pale-yellow Dior gown with a bright yellow cloak which was ALL DRAMA. She wore a similar Dior ensemble By Sarah • Sep 20, 2021 01:37 pm
Emmy Awards 2021 Fancy dress fashion at the Emmys The big trend of the night was bright colors, but there was a second, micro-trend happening at the Emmys, and it was “people dressed for a Halloween party”. There was a cohort of people who came in fancy dress fashion, looking like guests at a very expensive Halloween party. I By Sarah • Sep 20, 2021 10:55 am
Emmy Awards 2021 Ted Lasso triumphed in spite of constant complaining Ted Lasso did not sweep the Emmys as Hacks snagged a few comedy awards of its own, but the feel-good show of 2020 still came out on top with acting wins for Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Jason Sudeikis, and it took the top prize, Outstanding Comedy Series. These wins come By Sarah • Sep 20, 2021 10:36 am
Emmy Awards 2021 The Reservation Dogs brought it to the Emmys The cast of Reservation Dogs and series co-creator Sterlin Harjo presented Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series. They all look sharp, but Devery Jacobs BROUGHT IT in a Lesley Hampton gown and earrings from two-spirit design duo Indi City. Her whole look is an Indigenous story, and it’s not By Sarah • Sep 20, 2021 09:33 am
Emmy Awards 2021 Emmys Bad: Seth Rogen calls out the Emmys Seth Rogen was the first presenter of the Emmys, and he looked great. Rogen has had about as good a pandemic as a person can, just sitting at home, throwing pots and expanding his weed company to the US and releasing a best-selling essay collection. He’s also looking good By Sarah • Sep 20, 2021 08:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Kate Dolan’s You Are Not My Mother In the tradition of The Babadook, Irish horror film You Are Not My Mother uses genre tropes to pry into domestic spaces and the world of mother and child. The feature directorial debut of Kate Dolan, Mother is set in the days leading up to Halloween, or Samhain on the By Sarah • Sep 17, 2021 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens in I’m Your Man Did you know that Dan Stevens can speak German? Well, he can. In fact, he speaks German so fluently he can act in a German-language film and give exactly as good a performance as he would in an English-language film. It’s the kind of lingual flexibility we’re used By Sarah • Sep 17, 2021 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper is a monstrous man in Nightmare Alley Yesterday we saw the first look for Guillermo Del Toro’s new film, Nightmare Alley, and now we have a teaser by which to get a taste of Del Toro’s latest dark fantasia. It looks creepy all right! Old timey carnivals are always creepy, that’s a given. The By Sarah • Sep 17, 2021 09:21 am
TIFF 2021 Coverage TIFF Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Benedict Cumberbatch’s other TIFF film, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, could not be more different from The Power of the Dog. Far from the calculated cruelty of his performance in Dog playing a 1920s Montana rancher, in Life Cumberbatch plays English artist Louis Wain, whose illustrations and paintings By Sarah • Sep 16, 2021 02:51 pm
Award Season Campaigning Del Toro, Coop, and Cate enter the race One of the big question marks of the 2021 awards season was Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, a new adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s novel (there is also a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell) of the same name. Del Toro literally JUST finished the film, By Sarah • Sep 16, 2021 01:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kristen Stewart: Here to play Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as the late Diana, Princess of Wales, screened at TIFF this week. In support of the film’s inclusion at the festival, Stewart appeared as part of the “In Conversation With” series (other actors featured in the series include Benedict Cumberbatch and Steven By Sarah • Sep 16, 2021 11:52 am
