Movie Reviews and Previews Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Downhill Poor Downhill. If ever there was an example of the dangers of remaking a nearly perfect foreign-language film into English, it is the case of Downhill. Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure is a pitch-black comedy that is almost pure drama, about a family that crumbles when faced with a staggering By Sarah • Feb 19, 2020 02:55 pm
Equality Issues Cannes has decided to try The Cannes Film Festival is just a few months away—Spike Lee was announced as the first black jury president last month—and the festival has just announced their selection committee which features four men, and five women, giving women the majority say in selection for the first time. Cannes By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 03:56 pm
TV Updates Parasite’s good vibes continue No matter how 2020 turns out, this year did something right when Parasite won Best Picture, among other awards, at the Oscars. Parasite’s Oscar wins are the good vibes we need, and the good vibes keep going as Parasite is extending its hit theatrical run in the wake of By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika never stops Taika Waititi, fresh off an Oscar win and with two (2) film projects on the go at the same time, has every excuse to slow down. And yet, he does not. Taika never stops. With Next Goal Wins due out later this year, and Thor: Love and Thunder set for By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 12:43 pm
TV Updates Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Weaver on the run I am still trying to make Domhnall Gleeson an Internet Boyfriend, and he continues to not cooperate by showing up places and doing things. I can’t even be sure that starring in an HBO comedy series co-produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge will be enough to get Gleeson some Internet Boyfriend By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 10:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What did James Marsden do to deserve Sonic? I emerge from the theater with but one question: What did James Marsden do to deserve starring in Sonic the Hedgehog? I have no other questions about Sonic the Hedgehog, it’s a movie made for children and their unformed brains. It is, at least, acceptable entertainment for children and By Sarah • Feb 14, 2020 01:19 pm
Twilight Thank you, Twilight, for RBattz’s jawline Matt Reeves’ The Batman started filming last month, and now Reeves has dropped a tease on the internet for the world to gawk at: the first look of Robert Pattinson in the new Batsuit. Pattinson has never been my preferred flavor of tea, but, um, he looks HOT in this By Sarah • Feb 14, 2020 09:40 am
Quiveration Dev Patel can get it in every era Dev Patel can get it. It is known. What we have just learned, however, is that Dev Patel can get it in every era. This knowledge comes to us from the trailer for The Green Knight, a medieval fantasy epic by David Lowery, the director of A Ghost Story and By Sarah • Feb 13, 2020 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Taika, the Winner There were three joyous things about this awards season: 1) it was short. I know this was hard on the nominees/participants, but for everyone else the brevity was a bonus; 2) Bong Joon-ho and Parasite are the feel-good entertainment story of the year. It’s so fun and wonderful By Sarah • Feb 13, 2020 01:11 pm
Pete Davidson Pete Davidson’s million-dollar, antique joke Pete Davidson makes audiences at his stand-up shows sign an NDA with a one million dollar penalty if they reveal his jokes to the public. Pete Davidson’s jokes are among the best protected jokes in the world, precious, rare joke-gems that can only be viewed at select times and By Sarah • Feb 13, 2020 09:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Return to Wes Anderson’s Land of Impossible Twee Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is set for a summer release and is expected to premiere at Cannes. If it does, it will bring a collection of stars to the Croisette unlike any other ensemble that could be assembled. Few directors can attract such high-wattage stars to By Sarah • Feb 12, 2020 02:17 pm
Child Stars Macaulay Culkin still has It Macaulay Culkin is not someone I gossip about, but every once in a while, he sticks his head above the waterline and it’s worth observing, like Punxsutawney Phil checking for his shadow. The last time we heard from Mack was almost exactly a year ago. He and Devon Sawa By Sarah • Feb 12, 2020 10:13 am
Equality Issues Taika shares Taika Waititi is an Oscar winning screenwriter now, and his first official move as an Oscar winning screenwriter is to hire another writer to collaborate on Thor: Love and Thunder. Many auteurs would have you believe that filmmaking is a solitary craft and great films result from a single voice, By Sarah • Feb 11, 2020 01:30 pm
Oscars 2020 Taika is a disappointing winner! I’m not apologizing for the exclamation points because Parasite won Best Picture and my heart is still light with joy this is the energy I am taking into 2020! But I have to tell you I am more than a little disappointed that Taika Waititi wore a plain tuxedo By Sarah • Feb 10, 2020 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Margot Robbie in Birds of Prey Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is juggling a lot. It’s a sequel/spin-off hybrid of Suicide Squad, a movie it does not drop-kick out an open window but one it does have to push off stage and make the audience forget. It’s By Sarah • Feb 07, 2020 02:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Celebrate Parasite now Parasite is breaking ground as the first South Korean film nominated for Best International Feature, Best Director, and Best Picture Oscars—and it will be the first South Korean film to win an Oscar, for Best International Feature, if nothing else—but it’s also remarkable for another reason: Parasite By Sarah • Feb 07, 2020 11:53 am
