Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Unstoppable Here I am being a grump about a well-intentioned film again. But as with We Live in Time, the issue with Unstoppable is how extremely well-trod the genre is, and how the film does not find a way to inject new life into it. Unstoppable is an underdog sports drama By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: We Live In Time It seems like every few years, we get a good old-fashioned weepy, usually about a romance doomed by disease, often cancer, that sunders a lovely couple, often when they are still young, and their fate feels all the more deeply unfair. The most recent entry into this very specific yet By Sarah • Sep 09, 2024 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Kaniehtiio Horn’s Seeds On the heels of appearing in television series like Letterkenny and Reservation Dogs—where she plays the inimitable Deer Lady—and films like Alice, Darling, Kaniehtiio Horn is now making her feature directorial debut with Seeds, a thriller she also writes and in which she stars. Seeds is equal parts By Sarah • Sep 06, 2024 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetleju— Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice is the definition of a cult classic, a film that did okay enough in its own time only to go on to spawn a rabid, multi-generational fanbase. It’s Burton’s sophomore film, sandwiched between Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Batman, and is arguably the quintessential By Sarah • Sep 05, 2024 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amy Adams is Nightbitch One of the films Lainey and I are both super looking forward to at TIFF is Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel of the same name. The trailer just dropped ahead of the film’s TIFF premiere, and in it, Amy Adams stars as a stay-at-home-mom By Sarah • Sep 04, 2024 01:52 pm
Business of Hollywood Sebastian Stan’s Trump movie got a deal Over the weekend, The Apprentice, Ali Abassi’s Donald Trump biopic starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, had its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Reviews for the film are (so far) mixed-positive, with many noting its reception depends on one’s personal tolerance for Trump, and whether By Sarah • Sep 03, 2024 10:45 am
TV Updates Even more murders this time! Over three seasons, Only Murders in the Building has been mostly consistent. It started good, wobbled a little in its sophomore season, and then hit the right combination of cozy mystery, outstanding ensemble acting, and stellar outerwear that have come to define the show. Season four feels like an even By Sarah • Aug 27, 2024 10:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Thanks, I Hate It: The new The Crow The Crow began life as a comic book by James O’Barr, then it became a cult classic film from 1994, starring the late Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Bai Ling, and Ernie Hudson, which was directed by Alex Proyas and was successful enough to spawn three sequels and a TV By Sarah • Aug 26, 2024 10:46 am
What Else What Else? FKA Twigs, making some interesting shoe choices. (Go Fug Yourself) I read this philosophical essay once that life is so inherently chaotic and random and overwhelming that humans look for meaning in coincidence in order to give order and importance to the events in our lives. Like saying “what a By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Paul Rudd and Jack Black sign up for slithering Today in Let The Past Die news, Paul Rudd and Jack Black are in talks to star in a remake of the 1997 film Anaconda which was Owen Wilson’s first big Hollywood role, and Jennifer Lopez’s follow up to Selena (look, it can take time for a movie By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 01:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice Get Out introduced us to a new sub-genre of horror, the “social thriller” which uses the style and themes of the horror/thriller genre(s) for social critique. Get Out took on racism and how white supremacy is built on the literal exploitation of Black bodies. Nope takes aim at By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 12:12 pm
Photo Assumption Only Murders photo assumption Only Murders in the Building returns next week on Hulu, and the premiere was yesterday in Los Angeles. The central trio of Steven Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez were there, joined by Meryl Streep, Jane Lynch, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, as well as new season stars Zach Galifianakis, By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 10:10 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, I WANTED to waste this opening making dumb jokes about Chick-fil-A’s streaming service—a few name suggestions: Chick-Film-A, Hatchling, Nugget—but then a conversation started amongst film critics that deserves a little attention. One year ago, I wrote about the New York Times’ bonkers article about “MovieTok” By Sarah • Aug 23, 2024 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Are the publicists okay Today in Has Anyone Checked On The Publicists Lately, Somebody Probably Should news, Lionsgate pulled the latest trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis because they got caught using fabricated quotes attributed to famous film critics in the trailer. Here’s what happened: Yesterday morning, Lionsgate, the US distributor for By Sarah • Aug 22, 2024 01:32 pm
TV Updates Sadly, this is not a Hit Man spin-off Coming off his big summer, in which HE is the star and not Tom Cruise, Glen Powell is already back at work on his next project, a football comedy series for Hulu called Chad Powers. While the show was co-created by Loki’s Michael Waldron and Powell, both of whom By Sarah • Aug 22, 2024 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Todd Phillips won’t call his musical murder clown movie a musical We’re two weeks out from Joker: Folie à Deux premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Given the billion-dollar, Oscar-winning success of the first film, the expectations are high for Folie à Deux. There’s really no reason to expect the sequel won’t deliver, I think Folie à Deux By Sarah • Aug 21, 2024 11:41 am
