Movie Reviews and Previews Saturday Night Not-Live There is a moment in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, a love letter to Lorne Michaels and his long-running late-night sketch series, where it seems like Reitman saw Aaron Sorkin’s own (short-lived) Saturday Night Live-inspired series and said, “I can do that, but better.” There is an inherent Sorkin-esque By Sarah • Oct 10, 2024 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Saturday Night Then Just yesterday I said we should get a trailer soon for Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s film about the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live, and behold, here it is, said trailer. I’m into it. I mean damn, the casting is SPOT ON. Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels isn’ By Sarah • Aug 09, 2024 11:21 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lainey’s future favorite movie This fall—supposedly October—Jason Reitman’s behind-the-scenes film about the first episode of Saturday Night Live is supposed to be released (using qualifiers because like A Complete Unknown, this film was just shooting earlier this spring, and that is a very tight turnaround). It’s called Saturday Night, it’ By Sarah • Aug 08, 2024 03:09 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, One thing that came up a lot during the height of pandemic lockdowns, movie-wise, was the theater-going experience and saving it from utter destruction in the face of convenient at-home streaming, especially in a pandemic environment. Four years removed from the strictest lockdowns, theatergoing is climbing its way By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everyone famous in Asteroid City Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who has long been interested in dysfunctional families, fathers and sons, grief, love, and a sense of style so precise he’s his own sub-genre of cinema. His latest, Asteroid City, embraces all of Anderson’s usual quirks and pursuits, with an added dash of By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Revisit the past in Ghostbusters: Afterlife Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the third Ghostbusters movie that comes after the other third Ghostbusters movie which everyone involved with Ghostbusters would now like to disavow. Somewhat ironically, Afterlife is no better than Ghostbusters (2016)—now retitled Ghostbusters: Answer The Call—a highly divisive movie that, in a way, should have By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 12:28 pm
Dumbass Can we just not with Ghostbusters again You guys, I am tired. It’s FEBRUARY and I am already exhausted. Here’s the latest sh-tf-ck ruining the mood. Last month we learned Jason Reitman is re-rebooting Ghostbusters in 2020. The announcement left a bad taste in my mouth in re: the 2016 reboot starring women, and of By Sarah • Feb 21, 2019 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Men, Women, and Children: TIFF Review Jason Reitman's Men, Women and Children boasts an impressive ensemble cast including Jennifer Garner, Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt, and new Hollywood heartthrob Ansel Elgort, but the best scene of the movie goes to, who else, but Judy Greer. "Oh, and I'm going to put a By Joanna • Sep 08, 2014 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anna’s campaign kicks off in London For months I’ve been yapping about this girl – Anna Kendrick’s performance in Up In The Air is so impressive, she’s already being buzzed about as a possible Best Supporting Actress nominee, she’s been named one of the Top 25 to watch, and she’ll receive the By Lainey • Oct 19, 2009 11:31 am
