#The Best and Worst Sketches – /Film

#The Best and Worst Sketches – /Film

“#The Best and Worst Sketches – /Film” Let me be honest here. When I first heard that Regé-Jean Page was hosting Saturday Night Live, this was the first time that I had no idea who the hell that was. I was totally aware of Bridgerton, but didn’t realize he was on it until I looked…

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#Details of John Patrick Shanley’s New Film – /Film

#Details of John Patrick Shanley’s New Film – /Film

“#Details of John Patrick Shanley’s New Film – /Film” John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, is best known for writing the scripts for the Cher/Nicolas Cage romance Moonstruck and for writing and directing two very different movies: 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano and 2008’s Doubt. But Shanley re-entered the zeitgeist last year…

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#A Young Girl Befriends a CG Squirrel – /Film

#A Young Girl Befriends a CG Squirrel – /Film

“#A Young Girl Befriends a CG Squirrel – /Film” Over the last 16 months, Disney+ has unleashed a slew of original films and TV shows, but few have felt like throwbacks to the days when Walt Disney Pictures released one low-budget, low-stakes comedy into theaters after another, in the hopes of translating into moderate box-office…

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#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary

#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary

“#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary” From the left: Comedy’s Trump-era Failure Saturday Night Live bungled a golden chance for sharp satire in the Trump years, notes Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman at The Drift, offering only drab finger-wagging and “apocalyptic moralism.” Right after Election Day 2016, it gave us a lame open of “Kate McKinnon sitting at…

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