Movie Reviews and Previews Defying death with Dick Johnson Is Dead Dick Johnson Is Dead is an unusual documentary in which director Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) imagines her father’s death over and over, and her dad, Dick, participates in staging his many fatalities. This exercise in impermanent mortality is way for Kirsten and Dick, who seem very close, to come to By Sarah • Oct 05, 2020 03:00 pm
Amazingness Tom Cruise Rides the Train… In the most Tom Cruise way possible. He’s jumped out of planes. He’s dangled off skyscrapers. He’s dangled off the side of a mountain. He has, already, done a stunt – or several – on top of a train. And he’s back at it for Mission: Impossible, I By Lainey • Oct 05, 2020 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Alex Gibney’s October surprise In US elections, there’s a thing called the “October surprise”, which is when a candidate pulls out some information as a last minute battle axe to wield against their opponent. It was clear a couple weeks ago that Trump was aiming to have a miracle vaccine in October as By Sarah • Oct 05, 2020 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bond quits 2020, too In the wake of Disney clearing most of their slate out of 2020, the latest Bond film, No Time to Die, has also evacuated this cursed year for hopefully greener pastures in April 2021. The means that No Time Die has now moved back a full year, from its original By Sarah • Oct 05, 2020 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Witches - Anne Hathaway's Triumph? It's been an unexpected pleasure of the past few years to have several of our most beloved stars find The Roles They Were Born To Play. Jennifer Aniston's Alex in The Morning Show, Reese Witherspoon in Big Little Lies. Hell, I'm very late to By Duana • Oct 02, 2020 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Meet Kamala Khan After WandaVision, the next most interesting of the Marvel Disney+ projects is probably Ms. Marvel, which will introduce fan-favorite character Kamala Khan to the wider world. Yesterday, Deadline reported that Marvel has found their Kamala in newcomer Iman Vellani, putting another Canuck in the MCU. This will be Vellani’s By Sarah • Oct 01, 2020 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Yeun and Minari will break our hearts Since leaving The Walking Dead in 2016, Steven Yeun has been keeping very busy, appearing in TV shows like Twilight Zone and I Think You Should Leave, and doing voiceover work on everything ranging from Voltron to Trollhunters to Tuca & Bertie, in which sweet, sweet Speckle. On the film By Sarah • Sep 30, 2020 02:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Weirdoes unite, The Craft is back In the 1990s, The Craft was to Goth girls what Clueless was to popular girls: an acknowledgment that your fashion choices were totally legit, and that choker DOES look good on you. Also like Clueless, The Craft has maintained an affectionate nostalgia over the years, which is now being revisited By Sarah • Sep 30, 2020 12:27 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
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt, Jodie, No Ben, and Medieval French Hairstyles Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, and Adam Driver were all seen on set in Ireland this week working on The Last Duel. No sign of Ben Affleck who was there filming for a few weeks, with Ana de Armas. Last I heard his assistant was back in Los Angeles so it By Lainey • Sep 30, 2020 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love at 20 Today is the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong premiere of Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love. The film, which debuted in Cannes, made Tony Leung the festival’s Best Actor, the first Hong Kong actor so honored. In the Mood for Love is not exactly Wong’s By Sarah • Sep 29, 2020 02:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jon Hamm is headed to Detroit Steven Soderbergh next film is called No Sudden Move. Production is now underway in Detroit and the reason why that’s notable is because, as he said: “The last time I shot a movie in Detroit with a great script and a great cast things worked out really well, so By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 12:25 pm
Dumbass Eddie Redmayne sticks his foot in Eddie Redmayne is promoting The Trial of the Chicago 7, the upcoming Aaron Sorkin film and one of Netflix’s starriest Oscar hopefuls for the year. In the film, Redmayne portrays activist Tom Hayden, one of the defendants in the trial, and to promote the film, he gave an interview By Sarah • Sep 29, 2020 10:14 am
Faux Gossip Tom Cruise is Iron Man? Once upon a time, before Robert Downey, Jr. revived his career (again), some stuffed suits at Marvel wanted Tom Cruise to play Tony Stark. It’s become part of MCU lore, that it could have been Tom Cruise, in another universe. Well, since the MCU will soon be expanding into By Sarah • Sep 24, 2020 10:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Disney quits 2020 Doing the only reasonable thing at this point, Disney has basically given up on 2020, moving 90% of their movies to 2021, including the entire Marvel theatrical slate which will now kick off with Black Widow in May 2021. This brings Black Widow’s total delay to twelve entire months, By Sarah • Sep 24, 2020 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Water Man directed by David Oyelowo David Oyelowo made his feature directorial debut at TIFF with The Water Man, a kid-adventure story that is a little bit The Goonies, a little bit Stand By Me, and a lot The Bridge to Terabithia. Oyelowo sets a decent-sized task for himself, tackling not only an emotional family-in-crisis story, By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 02:19 pm
