The final 90 minutes before the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live is dramatized in Saturday Night. It is October 11, 1975 and producer Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) is preparing for the launched of his new sketch comedy series on NBC. With the show yet to have a finalized script. network executive Dick Ebersol (Cooper…
Two siblings discover the legacy of their grandfather in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Evicted from her apartment, Callie (Carrie Coon) travels to Summerville, Oklahoma with her 15-year-old son Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and 12-year-old daughter Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and move into a farm owned by Callie’s estranged father, who recently passed away. After finding a ghost trap under…
A stressed out mother of three hires a night nanny in Tully. Marlo (Charlize Theron) is a woman on the verge of giving birth to her third child, who already has a stressful time raising two kids with her husband Drew (Ron Livingston), particularly her son Jonah (Asher Miles Fallica), who is possibly autistic. At the…
Young Adult sees the reteaming of director Jason Reitman and and screenwriter Diablo Cody after their previous collaboration on Juno, which won Cody the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The film stars Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary, the author (more specifically, barely credited ghost-writer) of a (formerly) popular series young adult novels, who returns home to…
Up in the Air is definitely much closer in tone to Jason Reitman’s first film Thank You for Smoking than it is to Juno. The film stars George Clooney as a guy named Ryan Bingham who flies all over the country and fires people. It’s a thankless existence, but he seems content with it, feeling…
Earlier this year at the Toronto Film Festival, I remember this film was receiving some good buzz. I would have considered seeing it then, if it wasn’t for the fact that the scheduling conflicted with my own. I think comparison has already been made that Juno seems to be Knocked Up and Superbad merged into…
