The gangster comedy sends its lead down an increasingly absurd and humorous path as he's tasked with casting an aging scream queen Rene Russo and her Oscar-winning ex Danny DeVito in the new film. The whole film is like one of Donkey Kong's mine cars, bouncing down a path of messy, chaotic fun — but we're enjoying every single minute of it. The unlikely pair team up to investigate the missing person case of a girl who disappeared 40 years earlier.
If you've ever heard the phrase "Mrs. Robinson" used for an older woman seducing a younger man, this is where the term came from. Anne Bancroft played the OG Mrs. Robinson in an Oscar-nominated performance, I might add in this '60s romantic dramedy. A very young Dustin Hoffman is the titular graduate, done with college and adrift in the world, unsure what to do with his life. Then he meets Mrs. The film, directed by the legendary Oscar-winning Mike Nichols, scooped up seven Oscar nominations on its way to becoming a cultural touchstone and launching Hoffman's career.
What a delightfully bonkers premise for a movie. I would like to begin this section with a direct appeal to Spotify: Dear Spotify executives, please put the entire Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack on your site.
Why do we get only three songs? Thank you. If, however, you would like to hear the entire soundtrack from this Coen Brothers folk musical, you can watch it on Amazon Prime. Oscar Isaac plays the titular struggling folk singer as he tries to make sense of his life, and sings haunting melodies in the process.
This underappreciated, lyrical film should have been showered with more awards and praise than it was. Sometimes the people just get it wrong. I will not be reading the comments for this article, because I KNOW you all are going to rake me over the coals for this one, but this is actually an incredible film.
Did it win every single Razzie the year it came out? But those folks are not watching this film from the perspective that it's a masterpiece of camp. Send this film to the Met Gala! Adam Sandler whose recent Hubie Halloween is also a winner plays both Jack and Jill, fraternal twins, in this truly bonkers affair. Oh, and the Survivors loved it.
Okay, I feel guilty already. This is the most recent adaptation of the oft-adapted novel about a young governess who falls in love with her employer, only to realize he has something much more problematic going on in his attic. While the novel is well worth a read, if you aren't down for a page saga, this Mia Wasikowska—Michael Fassbender film is nearly as good. The sprawling landscapes, marvelous acting, and Oscar-nominated costumes make the whole experience lush and literary.
When Jennifer's Body came out over a decade ago, is was panned by mostly male critics and marketed largely as the latest film in which to ogle Megan Fox straight off her stint in the Transformers franchise.
However, in a post— MeToo world, and especially after this summer, as society relitigates the way Fox was treated during her rise , this horror comedy has become a feminist cult classic. The film was written by female screenwriter and Oscar winner Diablo Cody, directed by female director Karyn Kusama, stars women, and yet is miraculously not either a romance or about motherhood try finding films from before that fit those qualifications.
It's also about a female succubus who can survive only by killing and eating men an urge that seems oddly relatable sometimes. Let's get the team on the phone because this is set up nicely for a sequel, and we'd like to see it. The holidays are just around the corner, and Amazon is here with what I feel like is an underappreciated Christmas film that should be more firmly placed in the canon. Everyone's favorite body builder—turned actor—turned governor—turned actor—turned replacement host of The Apprentice Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Howard, a workaholic father trying to prove to his son The Phantom Menace 's Jake Lloyd that he loves him by buying him a Turbo-Man aka the most sought-after toy of the year.
What follows is a mad dash around town trying to get the action figure by any means necessary. Oh, and Sinbad is there as competition. If you want a holiday film you haven't seen times, might I recommend this one? I'd rather have my bottom impaled on a giant cactus than pass up an opportunity to recommend this Rowan Atkinson masterpiece. The British cult classic which has gone on to spawn two sequels features Atkinson as a cross between James Bond and Inspector Clouseau.
He's incompetent in nearly every way, but when the entirety of MI7 is killed, he's the only agent left to stop a coup against the British throne by John Malkovich's jumped-up Frenchman, Pascal Sauvage. I nearly die laughing every time I watch the caper, including the scene where English tries to unmask the archbishop of Canterbury. Atkinson is a master of asides and ad-libs, and they do not disappoint here. The film also includes live footage of me performing a lip sync for my life every night while getting ready for bed.
I'd like to start the coverage of this film by saying that Josh Hutcherson's character is named "Laser," which is the kind of chaotic naming of fictional characters you've got to get behind.
But that is neither here nor there. This Best Picture—nominated family drama about a pair of lesbians raising two teenagers is exquisite and a massive push for representation, since same-sex couples with kids are still rarely seen in the media. The film focuses on the family once Laser brings his sperm donor played by Mark Ruffalo into the lives of his mothers played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore in award-winning turns.
Small and intimate in some ways and yet bombastic in the stories it is trying to tell and the force of the performances, The Kids Are All Right is a necessary watch. I know that listing actors is boring, but just go with me here. Like, really. As a result, streets previously occupied by Black families are now almost entirely white. Thus is the story of Jimmie Fails, who wrote this film based partly on his life. Hauntingly poignant and tragically melancholy, the film, an indictment of gentrification, also engages with the pains of growing up, of change, and of having to say goodbye.
With the recent wide release of The French Dispatch , perhaps now is a good time to revisit some of Wes Anderson's older titles, including this maritime comedy starring Bill Murray. Murray plays Zissou, a Jacques Cousteau—like figure intent on getting revenge on the jaguar shark for killing his former partner.
In classic Wes Anderson fashion, the film is beautifully shot in brightly colored, immaculately constructed, symmetrical frames. Beware, however — watching Steve Zissou could give you the urge to buy a red beanie. Fueled by alcohol and cut off from society, the pair descend into a salty, windswept madness.
This is certainly not for everyone, but those of you with a strong constitution and love of psychological horror will find this a riveting exploration of the untethered mind. In the world of melancholy, indie family dramedies, there is only one Little Miss Sunshine , and everyone else is simply playing for second.
The film, about a family of struggling misfits driving in a decrepit yellow van to attend a children's beauty pageant, is one of a kind in its achievements. It's a feel-good movie that's not cloying. It's a movie about depressed people that isn't depressing. The all-stars in the cast — including Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Toni Collette, and Alan Arkin — not only give great performances but are also in roles that highlight their individual strengths to bolster the film.
Colette in particular is flawless as the supportive mother and gets to deliver the greatest Popsicle-eating performance ever recorded onscreen. Manchester by the Sea is a beautiful, if disastrously depressing film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan.
His performance is so strong that it nabbed him a rare young male Oscar nomination and launched him into lead roles in subsequent films like Ben Is Back and Boy Erased.
He would also go on to become an A24 darling in films like Lady Bird and Waves. I think it's easy in post—run for president, post—arrival in Washington, DC, as secretary of transportation, and post— shirtless thirst trap to forget what a trailblazer Pete Buttigieg is.
Putting aside how you feel about his politics, his track record, or his stoic demeanor, his fairly successful campaign as an openly gay man was an incredible achievement for LGBTQ rights.
This documentary, while rehashing many of the campaign facts that you already know, does a nice job of reminding viewers of how powerful it was for many people especially not those in liberal urban enclaves to see a married gay man running for president.
You may not like Mayor Pete, but you can't help but acknowledge what he was able to accomplish. Watch it on Amazon Prime starting Nov. Where do I even begin to describe my love for this horror film? Directed by Ari Aster whose Hereditary is somehow even better , Midsommar follows a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a folk festival.
Only, instead of a normal village, there's something menacing and mysterious at play. Aster does the seemingly impossible job of making a field in broad daylight scarier than the dark, and the dread he creates in these scenes is palpable.
Although I will never forgive it for teaching me what a blood eagle is. It took Baz Luhrmann nearly three years to secure all the rights to this jukebox musical, but he had a vision, and the finished product was well worth the time.
We've seen plenty of filmed musicals and even a few jukebox musicals, but never an original one based on music from so many different artists: Madonna. Elton John. The one-of-a-kind film immediately struck a chord with critics and audiences, landing eight Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture.
And we're still listening to "Lady Marmalade" to this day because of it. She's the "hip old granny who can hip-hop, bebop, dance till ya drop, and yo, yo, make a wicked cup of cocoa. They ran that way. It was a run-by fruiting! I rewatched this during quarantine multiple times, and the whole movie still slaps.
The makeover montage with Harvey Fierstein? The whip-cream face mask? A delight. I am ashamed to say that prior to watching this documentary, I had no idea who Pauli Murray was. If you, too, have never heard of this fascinating, groundbreaking, trailblazing individual, then you need to hustle right on over to Amazon and give this a watch.
A civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on the bus before Rosa Parks. An African American lawyer whose work paved the way for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's landmark cases on sexism. A queer intellectual who sought to understand gender and sexuality during a time before modern labels. Murray is an icon we should be learning about in school, so if you're a schoolteacher and you're reading this article, wheel that TV into the classroom and press play.
That historic meeting serves as the basis for this film, directed by Regina King an Oscar-winning actor herself and adapted by Kemp Powers, who also wrote the play and Pixar's Soul big year for him! Focused on the relationships between these four great men , the film creates fictional dialogue that aims to unpack race, privilege, and the responsibility that comes with fame.
Never has such a long stay in a hotel room been so interesting. Back in , during a British miners' strike, gay activist Mark Ashton Ben Schnetzer realized that the police were too busy focusing on the miners to focus on their usual harassment of the gay community, and so he started Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners to help a fellow group of oppressed folks. The film is charming and uplifting and shows you how underdogs helping underdogs can do a lot of good for everyone.
I would like someone to do a study to find out what is the most-often-quoted movie. Apple is probably the ones to do it, since they're listening to us through our phones anyway. If I had to guess, however, I'd put my money on The Princess Bride , based on the sheer number of times I've had to listen to someone say "marriage" with a speech impediment. The goofy classic is sometimes meta and sometimes outlandish as it tells its tale for maximum comedic effect. Even people who have never seen the film can quote at least 10 lines, and it shall endure as a timeless family classic.
Noomi Rapace pre—lamb mom days and Michael Fassbender lead this new although, technically speaking, older cohort as they search for human ancestors in space. What they find, however, is a violent alien life form that ends up impregnating Rapace's Shaw, leading to a disgusting birthing scene and a baby alien ready to cause trouble for countless future generations. Moral of the story: Don't mess with aliens.
There's nothing I love more than a ridiculous crime film from the Coen Brothers, and Raising Arizona is certainly ridiculous. Holly Hunter plays a cop who falls in love with a convict played by Nicolas Cage I mean, that casting alone is gold. The two can't have a kid, so they decide to steal a quintuplet from a furniture tycoon. Then a competing set of criminals steal the baby from Hunter and Cage — pure lunacy in the best possible way. The crime comedy is a bit lighter than the Coens' usual fare, but the ingenuity is all there, and you've got supporting performances from Frances McDormand and John Goodman to boot.
If The Tragedy of Macbeth strikes you as a bit too somber, this might be the Coen film for you. For a movie that was largely panned by critics and made very little money in its opening weeks, this film has certainly made a pivot.
Not only did the comedic musical sendup to B movies become a cult classic, but it quickly transformed into a participatory film experience in which audience members respond while it's playing. Cowboy Bebop Nov. Light the Night Nov. Maid Netflix : This series was shot in Victoria, B. The Shrink Next Door Nov. Wheel of Time Amazon Prime : This epic eight-part fantasy series has already been renewed for a second season.
Three episodes are currently available and the remaining five will drop between now and Christmas. The premise? Fireball shots, hot tubs, insane arguments and lots of costume parties. Yellowstone season 4, Nov. Season three ended in a shocking cliffhanger and fans have been eagerly anticipating new episodes. Hawkeye Nov. New World Nov. Normal People Nov. Selling Sunset Nov. Sherlock season 2. Finch Nov. Breezy and still mild. More clouds than sun, blustery, and cooler with a few scattered showers; a few snow showers possible in the Poconos.
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