Blog posts in category "Movies and TV"
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Pete Davidson, the comedian-actor from SNL, digs deep to provide a tale loosely based on his life. The King of Staten Island is a comedy-drama co-written by Davidson and is Judd Apatow’s first feature since 2015’s Trainwreck. It ...
Becky (2020)
In case you're wondering, Becky is not a documentary about the infamous Barbeque Becky, who notoriously called the cops on two black men for using an outdoor grill. Nor is it a biopic about Becky Lynch, the four-time women ...
The High Note (2020)
Nearly one and a half years after the much talked about Late Night premiered at Sundance, director Nisha Ganatra is back with her latest comedy-drama which, like Late Night, also has two female leads. Based on a script by Flora ...
The Lovebirds (2020)
With Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae recently making names for themselves, the two seemed like obvious choices to co-star in a feature film. After all, Nanjaini wrote 2017's The Big Sick, an Oscar-nominated romance comedy based on his real-life ...
Emma. (2020)
It's been 24 years since the last film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel, so 2020 seems as good a year as any to remake Emma. With a screenplay from author Eleanor Catton, photographer and former music video ...
The Invisible Man (2020)
Leigh Whannell, who directed the surprising Upgrade in 2018, has returned with a remake of The Invisible Man. At one time a proposed member of Universal's ambitious shared monsterverse (with Johnny Depp attached), this non-monsterverse reboot was written ...
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
The last time audiences saw Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) on the big screen was back in 2016’s Suicide Squad. Birds of Prey is the follow-up, directed by Cathy Yan and written by Christina Hodson (Bumblebee). Although it’s set ...
92nd Academy Awards Predictions
With 2019 in the rearview, we’ve survived another year as well as another decade. We’re now in the roaring 20’s, but there’s still time to celebrate the 2019’s year in film.
There were a slew ...
The Rhythm Section (2020)
As Blake Lively transitions to serious roles, it seemed likely she would take a stab at an actioner. With husband Ryan Reynolds doing action as far back as 2003 (starting with Blade: Trinity), that only ups the “hold my beer ...
The Gentlemen (2020)
Guy Ritchie, at one time a promising filmmaker whose features provided a jovial look at England's criminal underworld, spent roughly the last decade directing studio fare that was meant to appeal to the widest audience possible. In 2020, Ritchie ...