Selena Quintanilla Perez is a name etched in pop culture history, known to many as the subject of the 1997 biopic starring Jennifer Lopez as much as she is known to several generations of Latinx girls. Her tragic death — murdered at the age of 23 — enhances this mythos, a fact often enhanced by…
‘Selena: The Series’ Review: Netflix’s Biopic Fails to Give Star a Voice
Dialing down the intensity and letting Colman Domingo and Zendaya do the work, “Euphoria’s” first special episode offers a rare ray of light in a dark winter.
‘Euphoria’ Review: Special Episode Lends a Helping Hand This Holiday Season
Over the years, many movies made reflect a growing trend amid studios looking to nab an easy profit. These are those productions that attempt to revive a classic tale or character but fail in attempting to make renowned intellectual properties both fresh and exciting. Stories gravitating around figures like Mowgli, Robin Hood, or Sherlock Holmes […]
‘A Christmas Carol’ (2020): An Artistic and Refreshingly Wholesome Take on Dickens’ Classic
There will be no more category hopping for anthology series, as the TV Academy decided to group them with Limited Series.
Emmy Rule Changes for 2021: Variety Series Collapsed, Anthology Series Refined
All products and services featured by IndieWire are independently selected by IndieWire editors. However, IndieWire may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. With David Fincher’s long-awaited “Mank,” about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s quest to finish the screenplay for “Citizen Kane,”…
Watch David Fincher Movies: Where Each Film Is Streaming
Red, White, and Blue opens with a very young Leroy Logan (Nathan Vidal) standing on a London street corner. Behind him is the school that he attends. He’s wearing a school uniform. As the other students walk past him, they say hi and acknowledge the very obvious fact that Leroy is a student who is […]
Film Review: Small Axe: Red White and Blue (dir by Steve McQueen)
Directed by David Fincher and written by Jack Fincher, follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s tumultuous development of Orson Welles’ iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane. Starring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey, Arliss Howard, Tuppence Middleton, Monika Gossmann and Joseph Cross. This is likely not going to be the sort of film that Fincher fans […]
Season two of the Netflix series Virgin River (adapted from the book series by Robyn Carr) just dropped last week, and as of this writing, I have 2 of the 10 episodes yet to watch (and I will definitely finish them tonight). Friends, this show is dumb. But it’s also incredibly watchable. The basics: 30-something […]
TV Time: Virgin River is so dumb. So why can’t I stop watching?
In the future, there will be robots. So in about twenty years into the future, artificial intelligence has reached a new level of sophistication. This story is about a scientist (Theo James) who is working on a new robot prototype. He does have a hidden agenda, however: to reunite with his dead wife (Stacy Martin). […]
Electric Sheep Dreams – Archive (2020)
It’s tough to be a woman in the workplace. So as you may be able to guess, this is about an assistant (Julia Garner). She works for a powerful executive at a film production company in New York City. She is at the bottom of the totem pole, and this is about how she processes […]
Toxic Work Environment – The Assistant (2019)
Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H. Tony Revolori as Zero Moustafa F. Murray Abraham as Mr. Moustafa Adrien Brody as Dmitri Willem Dafoe as J. G. Jopling Saoirse Ronan as Agatha Tilda Swinton as Madame D. Edward Norton as Albert Henckels Mathieu […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Review
If you’re looking for an excellent film featuring an Oscar-worthy performance from Riz Ahmed, look no further than the Sound of Metal. Directed and written by former concert photographer Darius Marder (he also wrote The Place Beyond the Pines), Sound of Metal focuses on a drummer named Ruben (Riz Ahmed) losing his hearing while on […]
Sound of Metal: An Excellent Film That Features an Award-Worthy Performance From Riz Ahmed
Peter Moffat’s 10-part limited series loses its way early, and great performances within a vivid New Orleans setting aren’t enough to save it.
‘Your Honor’ Review: Bryan Cranston’s Showtime Drama Offers Little More Than Anxiety
Queen Olivia Colman looks upon Margaret Thatcher and just doesn’t know what to make of her. Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: last spring my wife Anne and I binged the first three seasons of Netflix’s The Crown and soon caught up with the rest of fandom. One slight hitch: while Anne is a major history […]
“The Crown” Season 4: All Ten Episodes Ranked According to a Guy Who Barely Knows Royal Family Stuff
The Flight Attendant has a premise that draws you in, but will it be smooth skies or bumpy turbulence? Let’s find out…
BoJack Horseman Christmas Special: Sabrina’s Christmas Wish (2014). While this is slightly cheating with the formula I utilise for this Christmas blogging series, I felt this episode needed to be noted. Also my BoJack-mad sister suggested I review this episode. It’s a pretty standard BoJack episode but just centered around Christmas. Todd (Aaron Paul) and […]
Festive Movie Marathon 2020 (#1)
Let Him Go ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The title of Kevin Costner’s most recent movie is apt to this post, only exchanging the pronoun for “her” instead of him. I resisted the urge to use the headline: That Time Madonna Gave Kevin Costner The Tongue. It just sounded like a little too much, despite the double entendre, but […]
That Time Madonna Stuck Her Tongue Out At Kevin Costner And The Resolution Years Later
Two lighthouse keepers, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Thomas Howard (Robert Pattinson) try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. My sister recommended me this film and insisted I watched it when it popped up on Amazon Prime. I’d heard about how much attention this […]
“The Undoing” finale was the television event of the year so far for HBO. The premium cabler’s parent company announced the show’s Nov. 29 finale drew the biggest audience for an HBO series since July 2019. WarnerMedia stated that “The Undoing” finale garnered 3 million viewers across all platforms, which makes the show the most-watched…
HBO Touts ‘The Undoing’ as First Original Series to Grow Ratings Each Week
So, as we all know, December is typically the start of Awards Season but this year, things are up in the air. With the Academy extending the eligibility window (don’t even get me started on how annoyed I am about that), a lot of critics groups have also pushed back their selection date. For instance, […]
The Sunset Film Circle Honors Promising Young Woman
