After 10 years of acting, Carlson Young had a story she just wanted to tell herself. The star of MTV’s Scream TV series and Groundhog Day sex comedy Premature, Young wrote, directed and starred in the short The Blazing World which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In The Blazing World, Young plays Margaret, a
Last year’s Hostiles showed the brutality of the western frontier in a way that’s never been portrayed on film before. Damsel is not that. Robert Pattinson stars as a cowboy totally not cut out for the old west. Sam Alabaster (Pattinson) comes looking for his fiance to be Penelope (Mia Wasikoswa). He hires a preacher,
A Futile and Stupid Gesture is still a David Wain movie even though it’s a biography. It’s fitting since it’s the biography of a satirist, so Wain finds self-referential ways to tell the story of National Lampoon founder Doug Kenney. The film begins with Doug as an old man (Martin Mull) calling out biopic tropes.
The Death of Stalin is causing a storm in Russia with police today raiding a cinema that defied a ban to screen it — but why is the movie being censored in the country? The film, from Scottish director Armando Iannucci, is a dark comedy satire which tells of the power struggle which came after
One of my favorite things to watch is survivors exploring abandoned wastelands for supplies. Will Smith was the ultimate in I Am Legend. I Think We’re Alone Now gives us Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning as legends. Del (Dinklage) is the lone survivor in a town, going from house to house grabbing useful items and
There have been a few movies set on a computer screen before. Unfriended and Open Windows made it work but Search is the first movie where you don’t even notice it’s all on a computer screen. It’s just so organic to the way we use devices that it just feels like a regular movie, and
The Long Dumb Road is the long awaited starring role for Jason Mantzoukas, by me at least. Mantzoukas totally delivers as a compelling leading man with heart and tough love. Nat (Tony Revolori) is driving from Texas to Los Angeles for college. His car breaks down and Richard (Mantzoukas) is able to fix it, so
Bo Burnham became my favorite comedian for the way he deconstructs the very acts of giving and watching a performance in his standup (as well in the construction and lyrics of his songs). In Eighth Grade, Burnham has equally profound and compassionate insights into modern youth. Kayla (Elsie Fisher) is about to graduate eighth
Director Jaume Collte-Serra is a master at contained movies. He directed Non-Stop on a plane, The Shallows entirely on a rock in the ocean, and now he’s back with Liam Neeson in The Commuter. It’s not a coincidence that he keeps making movies confined to one location. “Yeah, I love it,” Collet-Serra said. “I particularly
Liam Neeson reunited with his Unknown, Non-Stop and Run All Night director Jaume Collet-Serra for The Commuter. Neeson plays a man on his last trip home from work after being fired when a mystery woman (Vera Farmiga) tasks him with finding a passenger. Read our review here. The director told Monsters and Critics how he