‘Freaky Tales’ Flashes Back to Oakland 1987
Take some punk rock, some rap, the NBA playoffs and the story of a retired hitman played by Pedro Pascal, mix it all up into four intertwined stories– three based on actual facts – and you get Freaky Tales, an ode to the Bay Area city set in May of 1987. Fresh off their stint on Captain Marvel, along with several revered indie films including Half Nelson, it’s the latest from the writer-director team of Ryan Fleck and Anna...
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Final Season: The Revolution is Here
It’s been it’s been two and half years since we last saw Elisabeth Moss’ June trying to keep her family safe from the totalitarian state of Gilead and its violent supporters in Toronto, and now the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale is upon us. And yes, rage, resistance and revolution are brewing. The series, based on Margaret Atwell’s best-selling novel first premiered in April 2017 and featured June, then known as Offred,...
The Twisted Tale of ‘Death of a Unicorn’
Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as Elliot and Ridley Kintner make for an unusual father-daughter duo. You sense that immediately in the opening scenes of A24’s Death of a Unicorn, As they drive up a deserted mountainous road, there’s bickering and tension, and then inattention that shapes the rest of this rather lame horror-comedy tale. Suddenly, their car hits a horse-like animal on the road, which turns out to be a unicorn, and both have...
Living, Loving and Laughing in Hulu’s ‘Mid-Century Modern’
Three gay men living in a house in Palm Springs with one of their moms. Sounds like a great premise for a sitcom, right? That’s what Max Mutchnick and David Kohan (the brains behind Will & Grace) thought as they came up with the concept for Mid-Century Modern, a multi-camera comedy directed by James Burrows and shot in front of a live audience—with 10 episodes now streaming on Hulu. It’s a throwback to the glory days of sitcoms...
The Sweet Charm of ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’
If you enjoyed The Banshees of Inisherin a couple years back, you’re probably going to love the new Focus Features film The Ballad of Wallis Island. Aside from the similarity in the cadence of the titles, both take place on a remote UK island and feature a fractured relationship, a lovable misfit and a movie star. In Banshees, it was Colin Farrell and in Wallis Island, it’s Carey Mulligan. But spoiler alert: there’s no donkey – and no...
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