Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Get the Hell Out Gonzo zombie action movies aren’t for everyone, but in the vein of South Korea’s Train to Busan and Japan’s One Cut of the Dead comes Taiwan’s Get the Hell Out, a bonkers zombie action comedy/political satire that uses basically every trick in the book. Written By Sarah • Sep 14, 2020 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The pointed shot selection of The Way I See It The Way I See It, Dawn Porter’s documentary about former White House photographer Pete Souza and his somewhat surprising Instagram crusade against Donald Trump, was basically a two-hour tear-fest for me. That’s why Joanna wrote the more critical, objective review. Part of my brain kind of shut down By Sarah • Sep 14, 2020 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Nomadland wins Venice… TIFF next? Chloe Zhao’s third feature film, Nomadland, is a contemplative, quietly assertive film about a little-seen segment of the American population: a transient working class of American laborers who are largely older, casualties of the Great Recession and the true economic anxiety of spending a lifetime at work only to By Sarah • Sep 14, 2020 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: One Night in Miami Adapted by Kemp Powers from his own play and directed by Regina King, One Night in Miami is a fictionalization of a night in February 1964 when Cassius Clay (Eli Goree, Riverdale and Ballers) becomes the heavyweight champion of the world after a surprise victory over Sonny Liston. After the By Sarah • Sep 11, 2020 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rom-com Alert! Geraldine Viswanathan in The Broken Hearts Gallery Geraldine Viswanathan, the breakout star of Blockers and Miracle Workers, fulfills her destiny as a romantic heroine in The Broken Hearts Gallery. A classic rom-com with judicious, 21st century updates, The Broken Hearts Gallery is about the irrepressibly cute Lucy (Viswanathan), a kleptomaniac who hoards trinkets from past relationships (and, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2020 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dune looks expensive and boring Dune is a series of sci-fi novels many people care deeply about, I am not one of those people. The trailer for a new adaptation of Dune—a book that has thus far completely resisted any all attempts to successfully adapt it—arrived yesterday and it looks like a massive, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2020 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rebecca returned Everyone loves a remake of an already perfect film, so get ready to welcome Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca with open arms when it premieres in October. No matter how much Wheatley or anyone else insists this is not a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Best Picture-winning psychological thriller, it will, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 03:25 pm
Top Reads Jason Momoa stands with Ray Fisher Over the weekend, #IStandWithRayFisher was trending on social media, as a response to the latest developments in the Justice League investigation. To recap: on July 1, Fisher, who plays Cyborg in Justice League alleged that Joss Whedon was “gross, abusive, and unprofessional” while reshooting Justice League, and that he was By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 12:08 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Get sad with Nomadland One of the early Oscar tips for 2020 is Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland starring Frances McDormand. The film is about a transient worker in America, driving from job site to job site in a van in which she also lives. I would describe Zhao’s two previous feature films, Songs By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 10:59 am
Business of Hollywood The Oscars institute inclusion rules for Best Picture After years of #OscarsSoWhite trending basically every year during Oscar season since 2015, the Academy finally got sick of eating sh-t for the studios and have instituted a set of diversity rules for future Best Picture nominees. The rules will go into effect in 2024, for the 96th Academy Awards, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews RBattz tests positive? In March, production on The Batman shut down along with every other ongoing production as part of a worldwide coronavirus lockdown. They got back to work at the beginning of September, only to shut down again just days later after someone on set tested positive for COVID-19. Warner Brothers’ initial By Sarah • Sep 08, 2020 12:06 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan: A Bright, Heroic Epic For a New Generation The Disney live-action remakes have been a mixed bag so far. Some of the movies turn out good on their own merits, like Cinderella, and some are money grabs, like The Lion King, and some are just f-cking weird, like Beauty and the Beast (he was SH-TTING in that guy’ By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boys in the Band trailer Ryan Murphy is one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood. This year alone he has three films—assuming The Prom makes its December release date—and five television shows coming out. He has directed one of the movies, The Prom, and episodes for two of the television shows, Hollywood By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews I’m Thinking of Ending Things is Charlie Kaufman’s Twilight Zone Charlie Kaufman’s latest film, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, is an existential pretzel, as all of Kaufman’s films are. The terrible existence of other people preoccupies Kaufman, and in Ending Things he presumes the worst of his protagonist in a most insidious way. Adapted by Kaufman from By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 11:43 am
Top Reads John Boyega GQ John Boyega covers the October issue of British GQ this month, talking about his impassioned speech at a London Black Lives Matter rally earlier this summer and his experience with Star Wars, now that he’s free and clear of the franchise and has had some time to reflect. Of By Sarah • Sep 02, 2020 01:37 pm
TV Updates Jamie Foxx returns to Netflix Last month, Project Power was, allegedly, one of the most popular titles on Netflix. That’s based on grading Netflix’s “Top Ten”, which are in turn opaque self-reported metrics no one outside the company can verify, so it is, at best, a guess. But it seems likely people watched By Sarah • Sep 02, 2020 11:27 am
