This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we focus on a movie starring an Oscar-winning actor taking on a different gender expression by embracing exaggerated femininity, over-the-top glamour, and crazed facial expressions. I’m referring, of course, to Jane Fonda in Youth.… Continue Reading
In this week’s episode of The Binge Movie Podcast, we discuss three films about immensely flawed protagonists overwhelmed by responsibility, consequence, and sweaty hair: Macbeth | cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, David Thewlis, Elizabeth Debicki, Paddy Considine | screenplay: Jacob Koskoff,… Continue Reading
Lake Bell has gradually been carving out the kind of genuinely interesting career she wants for herself, moving from supporting roles in romcoms like What Happens in Vegas and No Strings Attached into the defiantly, brazenly weird Adult Swim universe… Continue Reading
I like Brie Larson very much. In every single thing I’ve seen her in—Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The United States of Tara, 21 Jump Street—she’s exuded a naturalistic charm and wit that immediately got my attention. She also co-starred… Continue Reading
First of all: yes, I’m finally posting this. In what I’m sure was a deliberate attempt to provoke me, Sony Pictures Classics released this much-anticipated trailer while I was in unplugged mode visiting my new nephew back in PA, so… Continue Reading
My close personal friend someone I once sat at a very crowded table with in a hotel suite Joseph Gordon-Levitt continues expanding his creative empire with Don Jon, his feature-length debut as a writer and director. As the trailer makes… Continue Reading
My very good friend someone I once sat in a hotel room with Saoirse Ronan plays a centuries-old vampire trapped eternally in the body of a 16-year-old girl in the artfully shot horror film Byzantium. Synopsis: Two mysterious women seek… Continue Reading
I may have spoken too soon when I wrote earlier about August: Osage County‘s impressive cast. Not to take anything away from it, especially since I have no doubt it will be a considerably better film, but August‘s cast has… Continue Reading
Trailers for some of this year’s prestige films have gradually been making the rounds over the last week, and certainly one of the most buzzed-about titles is Sundance grand prizewinner Fruitvale Station (apologies for the French subtitles, this is an international… Continue Reading
Twenty Feet from Stardom is one of the most superbly entertaining music documentaries I’ve seen. Directed by Morgan Neville, it is the oral history of backup singers in pop music, particularly the African-American women who gradually rose to prominence in… Continue Reading
