TIFF 2008 Red Carpet TIFF Review: The Sisters Brothers Opening this weekend is the latest in the budding sub-genre of sensitive, revisionist Westerns (following on the heels of Slow West and Damsel), The Sisters Brothers, a view on the classic gunslinger trope that allows for existential dilemmas and regret. Adapted by Thomas Bidegain and director Jacques Audiard from Patrick By Sarah • Sep 21, 2018 03:56 pm
TV Updates Chris Evans moves to TV Avengers 4 opens next May, and it will be the last stop for several of the OG Avengers. Scarlett Johansson may stick around for that solo Black Widow movie, and RDJ will probably hang out in some cameo-centric fashion, being to the next-gen heroes what Nick Fury was to him, By Sarah • Sep 21, 2018 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in A Simple Favor Do not let the misleading trailers fool you—A Simple Favor is not a cheesy thriller about lady murder. It is, however, a PARODY of those things. Why on earth A Simple Favor wasn’t marketed as the black comedy it is I will never understand (and they are paying By Sarah • Sep 20, 2018 04:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cary Fukunaga lands Bond 25 After Danny Boyle was and then wasn’t making the next Bond movie, the “who will direct” merry-go-round started up again. (The “who will play Bond” merry-go-round never stops, even when someone is already playing Bond.) After a month of searching, the new director for Bond 25 has been announced By Sarah • Sep 20, 2018 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Roma break through? (Lainey: the Oscar race is shaping up. Yesterday Variety listed ten possible contenders now that the Telluride, Venice, and Toronto film festivals have happened. Roma is on everyone’s list for the best films of the year. It will begin streaming on Netflix in December and will also have a By Sarah • Sep 19, 2018 05:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel: a woman who won’t stay down We’re six months out from the release of Captain Marvel, which means that Marvel’s internal marketing alarm has gone off and, like clockwork, they dropped the first trailer yesterday. I LOVE IT. On the heels of a strong first look, this trailer manages to both introduce Carol Danvers By Sarah • Sep 19, 2018 10:43 am
Emmy Awards 2018 Benedict got swept Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance in Patrick Melrose, which was in turn nominated for three other awards (on the big night, there was also a casting nomination during the technical awards). But Cumberbatch and Patrick By Sarah • Sep 18, 2018 03:15 am
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
