Movie Reviews and Previews Give The Rip a chance Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back, baby, once again collaborating on a film. Only this one, they did not write nor is Affleck directing, it comes from filmmaker Joe Carnahan, who specializes in well executed schlock like Narc, The Grey, and Copshop. His latest film, reuniting Affleck and Damon, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most enduring works of English literature, often considered one of the first, if not the first, science fiction novels, as well as an early flagship in horror literature. It has been adapted and reimagined countless times over the centuries, the latest iteration By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Brendan Fraser in Rental Family There is a phenomenon that occurs when an actor wins an Oscar that they often go forth and almost immediately appear in a better film, giving a better performance. Recent examples include Emma Stone winning an Oscar for La La Land only to appear in The Favourite, a better movie By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy in Sacrifice The last few years have seen a glut of “eat the rich” films—and TV shows—and Romain Gavras’s Sacrifice is another of the type. Co-written with Pulitzer-nominee Will Arbery, Sacrifice follows a clash of the rich and the idealistic, perhaps at the end of the world. Movie star By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wake Up Dead Man is the creepy one As I write this, it is my final night in Toronto for TIFF and Wake Up Dead Man did not fit into my schedule. I am bereft, I am bothered, I am bemused, I am bereaved(?), I am exhausted and running out of b-synonyms. The teaser for Wake Up Dead By Sarah • Sep 09, 2025 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Angelina Jolie in Couture Alice Winocour is an idiosyncratic filmmaker who has yet to work in the same genre twice. Her latest film, Couture, is an anthological drama set during Paris Fashion Week following several different women through their journeys during couture’s most important week. Written and directed by Winocour, Couture is also By Sarah • Sep 08, 2025 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Sydney Sweeney in Christy TW for domestic violence Christy Salters, known for much of her career by her married name, Christy Martin, put women’s boxing on the map, and was the first “lady fighter” to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated and compete in a Pay-Per-View match. She was a champion and a By Sarah • Sep 08, 2025 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Riz Ahmed in Hamlet Hamlet is Hamlet is Hamlet, there’s only so much you can do with Hamlet, it’s been done so many times by so many people in so many mediums over the literal centuries since Shakespeare’s play debuted. The latest update comes from director Aneil Karia and stars Riz By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 01:42 pm
TV Updates Charlie Hunnam really did it Last year we saw Charlie Hunnam in character as serial killer (and grave robber, etc) Ed Gein for the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s incredibly popular true crime anthology series, Monster. Season one dealt with Jeffrey Dahmer and won many awards for star Evan Peters. Season two dealt with By Sarah • Sep 05, 2025 12:07 pm
Style Fun guys at Venice We’re approaching the tail end of the Venice Film Festival, which wraps up this weekend, but first there was a premiere for Julian Schnabel’s new film, In the Hand of Dante, which stars Oscar Isaac and Jason Momoa, as well as Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Louis By Sarah • Sep 04, 2025 12:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Wuthering Heights is for the sickos Somehow, we’re only four months away from the year two thousand and twenty-six. Scientists can probably explain, but I am sure that it is, ultimately, the sun’s fault. But that does mean that 2026 movies are on the horizon, including Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, about which there By Sarah • Sep 04, 2025 09:45 am
Style Colman Domingo and bonus Danny Ramirez This is the overlap week, the meat of the fall festival season, with Telluride ending on Monday, TIFF kicking off Thursday night, and Venice happening throughout the week, too. I know people who are hop-scotching through all three fests, which sounds nightmarish to me. The scheduling alone! I can barely By Sarah • Sep 03, 2025 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul and Josh’s other movie Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor will both be in Toronto this weekend, Paul for Hamnet and Josh for Wake Up Dead Man. But first, they have to mark their other movie, the one they made together, The History of Sound. It premiered at Cannes earlier this year and is By Sarah • Sep 03, 2025 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz in Caught Stealing Darren Aronofsky is not a filmmaker often given to making crowd-pleasing films—just the opposite, in fact—but a rare commercial spirit has seized him, and the result is Caught Stealing, a 90s nostalgic run-and-gun crime thriller featuring a cast of colorful characters. Writer Charlie Huston adapts from his own By Sarah • Aug 28, 2025 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet The Shakespeares Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Director with 2020’s Nomadland. Her work up to that point was deeply sensitive, humanist, and realist. Then she made Eternals for Marvel which, while very ambitious especially for that risk-adverse studio, didn’t really By Sarah • Aug 28, 2025 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in The Roses Warren Adler’s divorce-themed novel, The War of the Roses, was published in 1981, born of the era in which the introduction of no-fault divorce led to a huge spike in divorces. In 1989, Danny DeVito—an underappreciated director of comedy—adapted Adler’s novel into the similarly titled The By Sarah • Aug 27, 2025 02:55 pm
