daily stream: recovering from childhood, with a buddy
2014’s The Skeleton Twins is on Kanopy and Prime in the US, on Prime and Apple TV in the UK.
Saturday Night Live
All About Nina movie review: a woman owning her anger
Hail Mary, full of rage. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is utterly incendiary in this own-worst-enemy dramedy that gender-flips a tired genre to give angry new voice to a woman speaking her own truths.
curated: Ryan Gosling is correctly upset about one aspect of ‘Avatar’
From Saturday Night Live…
curated: excellent movie-trailer-based satire
Saturday Night Live is on fire lately.
Ghostbusters movie review: boo yeah!
Kate McKinnon’s gleefully reckless physicist is brainy comic mayhem, unlike any female character we’ve seen before. And there are more reasons to cheer.
Sisters movie review: women are messed-up people too
The just-right mix of wistfulness, snark, and painful personal growth makes this nonstop hilarious, with humor that gets women in a way movies rarely do.
The Skeleton Twins movie review: oh brother how art thou?
Funny and sad and wise and wonderful… with an absolutely heartbreaking, career-changing performance by Bill Hader.
Obvious Child movie review: it doesn’t care if you like it
Beautifully redresses how the realities of women’s lives are too often ignored on film… and does so with startling raw power and humor.
what is there to say about Harold Ramis? he was very fascinating
Ramis’s Groundhog Day, which he wrote and directed, might be the finest film comedy ever made…
Doctor Who thing: fans need to leave John Simm alooooooone!
Look, actors don’t owe fans anything at all beyond their work. It’s hardly ever cool to approach a celeb in public. Why would you want to annoy someone you profess to like?
