Tag: A24

  • TIFF 2024

    TIFF 2024

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    As we return from TIFF 2024 we present some of the standout films we saw at the festival. This was our inaugural year attending the Toronto International Film Festival (with special thanks to the TIFF and Rotten Tomatoes Media Inclusion Initiative for helping us participate) so we weren’t able to screen everything there (including some…

  • Fly Me to the Moon, Sunny, Touch – 461

    Fly Me to the Moon, Sunny, Touch – 461

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    Can the new romcom Fly Me to the Moon achieve liftoff? Sunny explores what it means to be human. Touch is a love story through the ages. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Fly Me to the Moon: Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, “Fly Me to the Moon” is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against…

  • MaXXXine, The Imaginary, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – 458

    MaXXXine, The Imaginary, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – 458

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    Does Maxine Minx get her Hollywood ending in MaXXXine? Studio Ponoc serves up their best Ghibli attempt in The Imaginary. Finally a return to La-La Land with Eddie Murphy trying to reinvigorate Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about MaXXXine: In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx…

  • Teo Yoo for Past Lives – 331

    Teo Yoo for Past Lives – 331

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    Actor Teo Yoo dives into his own history in this chat about Past Lives, life changing connections, and vulnerability. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Past Lives Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York…

  • Top Films of 2022

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    Ready for our top films of 2022? These are a snapshot of some of our favorite films of the year. Important to note that they are representative of what was available in 2022. Does that mean they’ll stand the test of time (or even the test of looking back next December)? That remains to be…

  • Review: Bros, Blonde, Hocus Pocus 2, and God’s Creatures

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    Billy Eichner is here with his delightful new rom-com Bros. Ana de Armas steps into the famous white dress in Blonde. The Sanderson Sisters return in Hocus Pocus 2. Finally Emily Watson and Paul Mescal shine in the very dark God’s Creatures. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Bros: This fall, Universal Pictures proudly presents…

  • Three Thousand Years of Longing, Breaking, and Funny Pages

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    Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton leave us with more longing than satisfaction in George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing. John Boyega shines in the painful film Breaking. Funny Pages fails to turn our interest. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Three Thousand Years of Longing: Dr Alithea Binnie is an academic – content with…

  • Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu Interview: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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    Welcome Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu to discuss Everything Everywhere All at Once, emotionally challenging scenes, expectations growing up, and AAPI representation on film. You can find our interview with directing duo DANIELS here. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Everything Everywhere All at Once Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert,…

  • Directors Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) Interview: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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    Welcome DANIELS (aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) to talk about Everything Everywhere All at Once, purpose, parental expectations, unethical attention extraction, and eau de filmmaking.  Recorded before the San Francisco premiere of the film. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Everything Everywhere All at Once : Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known…

  • Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Pachinko

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    Michelle Yeoh’s performance is everything we ever thought we wanted from her and things we didn’t even know we wanted from her in Everything Everywhere All at Once which is ultimately a story of family wrapped in a spectacular maximalist package. Pachinko also covers the story of a family through many branches and generations in…