107 posts tagged ‘films’
You Can't Watch the Star Wars Holiday Special (Legally), But You Can Soon Watch Its Documentary
Gizmodo,
Thanksgiving is almost here and it’s a special time for Star Wars fans. That’s because 45 years ago, it was during Thanksgiving week that a Star Wars event for the ages took place. CBS aired The Star Wars Holiday Special one time, and one time only. After airing, it was quickly buried, left only to the imaginations of… Read more...
Disney's Wish Illuminates a Century of Magical Animated History
Disney celebrates its legacy in Wish—a movie filled with the company’s own mythology that also has bold allegorical similitudes to its recent history, all weaved into a powerful fairytale. Read more...
Next Goal Wins review: Taika Waititi returns to his roots
AV Club,
The marketing for Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins promotes the film as an underdog sports comedy about an ill-fated South Pacific soccer team, full of the highs and mostly lows of a struggling squad trying to make good. Revisiting the fallout from the worst loss in World Cup history—when Australia defeated American… Read more...
Oh goodie, it's sex week on The Golden Bachelor
Let’s just get this out of the way up front: yes, Gerry apparently has sex with both of his final two women on this week’s Golden Bachelor. (It’s never explicitly confirmed, which is more than fine by us.) And yes, he euphemizes the whole business like it’s going out of style. If this author had to hear it, so do you,… Read more...
Poor Things Puts a Shocking and Fantastic Spin on a Classic Tale
At its core, Poor Things is the relatively simple story of a woman growing up and finding herself. However, in the hands of director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite), it tells that tale in the most fantastical, imaginative, disturbing, and hilarious way possible. Words that, in fact, also describe the… Read more...
Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell’s Anyone But You finally looks like a rom-com
Anyone But You, starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, went from one of the most anticipated movies of the year to the most dubious after the teaser trailer was released. Fans who fawned over the casting and fell for the behind-the-scenes hype feared the worst when the brief teaser seemed to lack chemistry. But a… Read more...
Peacock's Ted takes shots at both Peacock and itself in first teaser
To quote The A.V. Club’s Sam Barsanti, “Who was the first person to walk into a movie studio executive’s office and say ‘it’s like a movie for kids, but it has a hard-R rating,’ and does that person now have more money than God?” Whether or not that evil genius was actually Seth MacFarlane or not, he’s certainly the… Read more...
Please Don't Destroy finds common ground with Beyoncé
The Please Don’t Destroys guys haven’t really been gone, but they’re back nonetheless. Sure, Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy returned to Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago after the writers’ strike ended, but when their new film, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain, premiered during… Read more...