Movie Reviews and Previews Smart Dumb Money Remember the “meme stock” phenomenon of 2021, which was driven by the GameStop short squeeze on Wall Street? Well, there’s now a movie about it, two and a half years later, which is about as fast as you can turn around a feature film. From director Craig Gillespie, who By Sarah • Jun 23, 2023 10:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Fabelmans The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical account of filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s childhood, marking the first time Spielberg is credited for a screenplay since 2001’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Playwright Tony Kushner returns after adapting West Side Story for Spielberg last year to co-write the script, and Spielberg continues his By Sarah • Sep 13, 2022 01:34 pm
Seth Rogen Jean, Kerry, and the Men in White White was probably the most popular colour on the carpet at the Emmys last night. Oprah wore white, as did Selena Gomez, and Jean Smart, who won her second Emmy in a row for her performance in Hacks, was glorious in white. The mood here is golden age Hollywood. Once By Lainey • Sep 13, 2022 07:35 am
TV Updates Pamela Anderson is surrounded by dirtbag men in Pam & Tommy The first three episodes of Pam & Tommy, the limited series depicting the story behind the leak of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s intimate home videos, is like a horror movie staged in broad daylight. From the perspective of 2022, we know how this story goes, even as we By Sarah • Feb 03, 2022 12:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel’s Chippendales movie is growing True crime is a vast genre, and every aficionado has their preferred corners of the true crime library. Mine is “cocaine-fueled mayhem of the Seventies and Eighties”, so the story of the Chippendales murder-for-hire plot is an old, well not favorite, because people died, but a much-revisited tale of excess By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 12:35 pm
TV Updates Pam & Tommy & The Tape The teaser for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy dropped this week, and while the physical transformations of Lily James and Sebastian Stan into Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, respectively, are jaw-dropping, you know what really hooks me? The way James lands on the line, “No, not like me you’re By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 02:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superstar Super Mario Bros. Given the success of Sonic the Hedgehog, which defied the gods and all decency to become one of the top-ten highest grossing films of 2020, it’s no surprise that more video game movies are coming. Next on the block is Nintendo making another run at Super Mario Bros., this By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 03:09 pm
Emmy Awards 2021 Emmys Bad: Seth Rogen calls out the Emmys Seth Rogen was the first presenter of the Emmys, and he looked great. Rogen has had about as good a pandemic as a person can, just sitting at home, throwing pots and expanding his weed company to the US and releasing a best-selling essay collection. He’s also looking good By Sarah • Sep 20, 2021 08:25 am
BFFs Paul and Rashida in London Paul Rudd and Rashida Jones, who’ve been good friends for years, since at least the late 2000s when they were in I Love You, Man together, were photographed out for a walk together in London the other day. According to the paps, they were on an informal literary tour, By Lainey • Aug 11, 2021 01:37 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Lily and Sebastian and Pam & Tommy On Friday we were given a gift, a great gift, the gift of Lily James and Sebastian Stan done up in costume as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. The two are starring in Hulu’s upcoming limited series Pam & Tommy, which focuses on their whirlwind romance made in 1990s By Sarah • May 10, 2021 10:40 am
TV Updates Pam and Tommy on Film Mick and Bianca Jagger, Johnny and June Carter Cash, Sonny and Cher, Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham, Kurt and Courtney… and Pam and Tommy. YES they belong on that list and I will fight about it all day: this was an iconic pairing in pop culture. The rock star and By Maria • Dec 17, 2020 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen in An American Pickle An American Pickle is a film about two lookalike relatives separated by a hundred years, who can’t resolve their generational differences. Like the main characters of Ben and Herschel Greenbaum (both played by Seth Rogen), An American Pickle is at war with itself and can’t quite overcome its By Sarah • Aug 10, 2020 03:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews An Unexpected Pickle Earlier this year, Sony sold Seth Rogen’s new movie, An American Pickle, to HBO Max, offloading it from their theatrical release schedule when coronavirus shut down the world. I said at the time that “This sounds like exactly the kind of dumb premise Rogen and his producing partners Evan By Sarah • Jul 06, 2020 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Seth Rogen’s Encino Man goes to HBO Max Seth Rogen’s next film, An American Pickle, is about a turn-of-the-last-century immigrant who accidentally gets pickled and preserved before being restored to life in the present day. So basically, it’s Encino Man, but with a pickled immigrant instead of a frozen caveman and much less shirtless peak Brendan By Sarah • Apr 29, 2020 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Good Boys is actually good This summer has seen a greater than ever divide between the haves (Disney) and the have nots (everyone else) at the box office, but Good Boys opened over the weekend with $21 million, making it only the third original movie to top the box office THIS YEAR (yikes on bikes By Sarah • Aug 20, 2019 03:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lion King, but no charisma Jon Favreau’s remake of The Lion King, using photo-realistic computer animation techniques, is stunning. It is stunning to look at. The Serengeti looks real, as detailed and gorgeous as the best nature documentary. The animals are stunning, as tangible as any creature in a National Geographic photograph. And it By Sarah • Jul 18, 2019 01:20 pm
