In Theaters

‘Selena: The Series’ Review: Netflix’s Biopic Fails to Give Star a Voice

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

Movie Reviews

‘A Christmas Carol’ (2020): An Artistic and Refreshingly Wholesome Take on Dickens’ Classic

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

Movie Reviews

Watch David Fincher Movies: Where Each Film Is Streaming

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

Movie Reviews

Film Review: Small Axe: Red White and Blue (dir by Steve McQueen)

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)

Movie Reviews

Review: Mank

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 […]

Review: Mank

In Theaters

TV Time: Virgin River is so dumb. So why can’t I stop watching?

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?

Amazon Prime Video

Sound of Metal: An Excellent Film That Features an Award-Worthy Performance From Riz Ahmed

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

In Theaters

“The Crown” Season 4: All Ten Episodes Ranked According to a Guy Who Barely Knows Royal Family Stuff

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

Festivals&Academy

Festive Movie Marathon 2020

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)

Movie News

That Time Madonna Stuck Her Tongue Out At Kevin Costner And The Resolution Years Later

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

HBO

HBO Touts ‘The Undoing’ as First Original Series to Grow Ratings Each Week

“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