TV Updates Betty Gilpin coming through Betty Gilpin is an Emmy nominee, her first, for portraying Debbie on GLOW. GLOW is amazing. I loved season one, and somehow, season two is even better. No sophomore slump here, GLOW not only maintained everything great about season one, but built it up in season two in a way By Sarah • Sep 17, 2018 02:40 pm
TV Updates Goth Sabrina Sabrina the Teenage Witch was a bright, upbeat show about a half-witch, half-mortal girl and her spinster aunts and their talking cat. It was more Bewitched than The Craft, with high school antics and easily solvable sitcom problems. The new Sabrina reboot, however, definitely looks more in the direction of By Sarah • Sep 14, 2018 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Munn in The Predator The Predator is the latest (misguided) attempt to extend the mythos of Predator, the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. Predator, like the DeLorean, was a one-off idea that never should have been franchised, and yet it has been, with The Predator being an attempt to kickstart a new franchise with new, By Sarah • Sep 14, 2018 09:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: First Man First Man, Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to La La Land could not be more different than his previous films. For one thing, First Man is not about music. For another, it is a much bigger production in scope, scale, and imagination, and Chazelle takes to this kind of grandiose filmmaking By Sarah • Sep 13, 2018 04:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “That lame Superman guy” no more Henry Cavill is best known as “that lame Superman guy” and/or a mustache, but now he will need to reinvent himself as he has both shaved and, apparently, quit being Superman. Yesterday word got out that after a three-movie run that includes some of the most divisive and unpopular By Sarah • Sep 13, 2018 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Widows To call Widows a leap forward for director Steve McQueen, or to otherwise imply this is some kind of improvement on his already capable and distinct style, is not fair to McQueen or a good assessment of his previous work (Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave). However, there is no By Sarah • Sep 12, 2018 04:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Assassination Nation Sam Levinson’s bonkers satire, Assassination Nation, stumbles into interesting, as is happening lately, by almost having something to say about Trump’s America. Movies take too long to make for it to really be about that, but Assassination Nation winds up there all the same, a festival of violence By Sarah • Sep 12, 2018 03:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF REVIEW: If Beale Street Could Talk Prepare to be frustrated and heartbroken. Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk is a beautiful, melancholy, infuriating meditation on race in America. Jenkins both adapts and directs and he preserves Baldwin’s poetic fury and his own well of empathy, all while evoking By Sarah • Sep 12, 2018 10:54 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Front Runner Gary Hart, the senator whose affair during campaign season ushered in the era of gossip-driven political reporting, is the centerpiece of Jason Reitman’s new film, The Front Runner. Despite Hugh Jackman’s best efforts and general screen charisma, Gary Hart is the least interesting figure in his own story, By Sarah • Sep 11, 2018 12:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Beautiful Boy Combining memoirs from David and Nic Sheff, a father-son duo who both reflected on Nic Sheff’s addiction to crystal meth and heroin, Beautiful Boy is about as pedigreed as films come. Starring Steve Carell, long since transitioned to Dramatic Actor, as David Sheff and breakout phenom Timothee Chalamet as By Sarah • Sep 11, 2018 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Everybody Knows with Penelope and Javier Following two Oscar wins for Best Foreign Language Film (A Separation and The Salesman, for which he did not accept his Oscar in person, in protest of Donald Trump’s travel ban), Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi takes us to a small, drama-drenched Spanish village for his latest film, Everybody Knows. By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: A Star is Born Even though this is the FOURTH iteration of the classic Hollywood rags-to-riches fable A Star is Born, I will do my best not to spoil it because apparently some of you took exception when Lainey let fly with the ending. At this point every age of cinema has its Star, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2018 09:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in Destination Wedding Destination Wedding is now available on VOD. A romantic comedy for cranks, Destination Wedding supposes two things: 1) The best cinematic romances are spiky and full of tension, and 2) audiences want to see Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder fall in love. Writer/director Victor Levin, veteran of Mad About By Sarah • Sep 07, 2018 11:24 am
Dumbass Oscar walks it back Last month the Academy announced upcoming changes to the Oscars telecast, to combat the ratings slide which is affecting everything on broadcast TV including football, and for the Oscars is mostly down to the fragmentation of entertainment and a little bit the popularity of the host which statistics show is By Sarah • Sep 07, 2018 09:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel FINALLY If you’ll recall, I was not impressed with the set photos from Captain Marvel, showing intergalactic superhero Carol Danvers in some budget green space suit. Carol Danvers has been around since the 1960s, and in 2012 she got an upgrade (courtesy writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artists Dexter Soy By Sarah • Sep 05, 2018 02:58 pm
TV Updates Grizzled Henry Cavill On the one hand, I am hesitant to write off Henry Cavill because of Chris Hemsworth. Not too long ago we were all, Stop trying to make Chris Hemsworth happen, Hollywood, and then Chris Hemsworth turned out to be one of the better Chrises. On the other hand, I read By Sarah • Sep 05, 2018 10:16 am
