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’ 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 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’ 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
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in The Guilty Southpaw collaborators Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal reteam for The Guilty, an English-language remake of a Danish thriller about a cop who sucks at his job spending a shift at work, sucking at his job. The fact that the film was shot during the pandemic in 2020 is fairly By Sarah • Sep 15, 2021 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Olivia Munn in Violet Justine Bateman makes her feature directorial debut with Violet, a psychological pressure cooker of a character study centered on the titular Violet (Olivia Munn). A successful film executive, Violet tolerates the disrespect of her colleagues, harassment of her boss, and abusive guilt trips of her estranged family. When she is By Sarah • Sep 15, 2021 01:31 pm
TIFF 2021 Coverage TIFF Review: Jessica Chastain & Andrew Garfield in The Eyes of Tammy Faye The Eyes of Tammy Faye wants to be a sympathetic portrait of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, but it succeeds more in cementing Tammy Faye’s place in the 20th century camp canon than it does reframing her as a victim of her husband’s By Sarah • Sep 15, 2021 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman Celine Sciamma follows her 2019 breakout arthouse hit, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with Petite Maman, a contemporary tale of parents and children, mothers and daughters. Written and directed by Sciamma, Petite Maman fits the recent fad for time travel/loop films as a young girl, Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) By Sarah • Sep 13, 2021 03:07 pm
TV Updates Where has THIS Hawkeye been? One of my eternal disappointments with the MCU is how Clint Barton turned out. I am a HUGE fan of Hawkeye in the comics, and despite a pitch-perfect appearance in Thor way back in 2011, the Clint we ended up with in the movies is the most boring, least By Sarah • Sep 13, 2021 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog That Benedict Cumberbatch is capable of great performances is not a surprise at this point, but still there is something astonishing about his performance in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Adapted by Campion from Thomas Savage’s novel of the same name, Cumberbatch plays Phil Burbank, an By Sarah • Sep 13, 2021 11:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kenneth Branagh’s Roma The hit of the Telluride Film Festival last weekend was Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s new film inspired by his own childhood growing up in Belfast, Ireland during The Troubles. The film is due to premiere at TIFF this weekend, and it will be interesting to see how it does with By Sarah • Sep 10, 2021 02:45 pm
TV Updates The Wheel of Time doesn’t have dragons Even though the last seasons and finale disappointed pretty much everyone, Game of Thrones was a HUGE success, so huge that, naturally, everyone raced to copy it. Netflix was first out of the gate with an expensive fantasy series touted as “the next Game of Thrones” with The Witcher, which By Sarah • Sep 10, 2021 01:21 pm
