Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone else in Mufasa The Mufasa press tour continues apace, stopping in London yesterday. No Bey or Blue Ivy this time, though, which means we can talk about everyone else involved with this film. Let’s start with Barry Jenkins, the director of the film. It is for his sake that I hope Mufasa By Sarah • Dec 12, 2024 11:01 am
TV Updates D23 trailer haul Hey everyone, welcome to my haul video! Just kidding, this is text. But it IS a haul OF videos from D23, the in-house Disney fan convention. We’re just off Comic-Con but this happened, too, because we live in a culture of constant capitalist overconsumption and commercials are commodities unto By Sarah • Aug 12, 2024 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Carter Movie Credits Nobody’s in the mood to talk about the holidays since we’re just about to start May and the summer blockbuster season in North America but there is a movie coming out for the holiday season that’s expected to be a huge blockbuster and the first trailer dropped By Lainey • Apr 29, 2024 10:34 am
TV Updates Jodie Foster will try to revive True Detective Hey remember True Detective? Remember how it was the best show on TV and then immediately the worst show on TV? Or, at least the most disappointing show on TV? Few series have had such a sharp freshman to sophomore season quality drop as True Detective. Quality-wise, it rebounded with By Sarah • May 27, 2022 03:22 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad rolls to a close Spoilers Be advised that episodes 9 and 10 contain disturbing images, including massacre violence, suicide, and infanticide. The final episodes of The Underground Railroad are the most harrowing of the series as Cora (Thuso Mbedu) once again tries to establish a life outside slavery. Royal (William Jackson Harper), who freed By Sarah • May 28, 2021 02:13 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad ep 1-3 Spoilers for episodes 1-3 of The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, arrives on Amazon Prime today, with all ten episodes available to stream at once. This is completely the wrong way to absorb it. The Underground By Sarah • May 14, 2021 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad In just four years, Barry Jenkins has established his place among the very best of American filmmakers working today, so naturally he is hitting the next phase of his career, chiefly the blockbuster phase. He’s got a Disney project on the horizon, but first Jenkins will conquer television, directing By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 12:54 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Barry Jenkins gets Disney money Yesterday, Disney made the surprise announcement that they are laying off 28,000 people due to the ongoing economic difficulties of the pandemic. Even with the theme parks open, with restrictions, of course, they are eating sh-t and continue to hemorrhage cash. These layoffs are just the latest round of By Sarah • Sep 30, 2020 10:46 am
Style Lulu and Barry’s anniversary I wrote after the Golden Globes that for all the attention that Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach get for being the writer-director super power couple, Lulu Wang and Barry Jenkins are a writer-director super power couple too…only it doesn’t seem like they’re not given the same hype. By Lainey • Jan 15, 2020 11:56 am
Golden Globes 2020 Barry, Lulu, Greta, Noah: the Globe Director Couples At our etalk research meetings this weekend, when we were figuring out questions for Noah Baumbach, the director of Marriage Story, one of issues we spent a lot of time discussing was whether or not to ask him about Greta Gerwig and women getting shut out of the director category By Lainey • Jan 06, 2020 05:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Regina King and the Beale Street 3 All of us who write on this site have written repeatedly about how much we love If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s so … much. This is a film that will hold up, there will never be a time, in 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, when it won’t By Lainey • Jan 22, 2019 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews When Regina King Talks That was my poor attempt at a play on If Beale Street Could Talk, but seriously, no one talks like Regina King. In an award season that refuses to give us a break from insufferable, worse-than-Hathaway twee speeches from Lady Gaga (I like Gaga but can she DO LESS please? By Kathleen • Jan 14, 2019 01:42 pm
Award Season Campaigning A mixed bag of filmmaker inclusion It’s been a great year for black American cinema, as evidenced by the Golden Globes nominations which include Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, and If Beale Street Could Talk for Best Picture. (Sorry to Bother You is too weird for award shows, but let us not forget it is one of By Sarah • Dec 06, 2018 02:31 pm
Barry Jenkins Kerry & Nnamdi for Beale Street I saw If Beale Street Could Talk at TIFF. It crushed me. Love is HARD. Love is often sold to us as easy, too easy. “Love is all you need.” If only that could be the truth. But while love is complicated at the best of times, as Kathleen often By Lainey • Nov 27, 2018 05:10 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
MET Gala 2017 Barry Jenkins & Julianne Moore at the MET: Best Oscar Victory Lap You win an Oscar, and everybody knows your film Moonlight for all the wrong reasons. Now what? Well, your cast becomes the latest faces of Calvin Klein's underwear campaign, you earn a spot as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People of the Year and get By Joanna • May 02, 2017 12:16 am
