Like many of you, I mourn for the little pleasures denied to us in our current purgatory. One of the small pleasures of my old life was a Friday afternoon at BAM with a seltzer in one hand and an illicit empanada from the Caesar’s … Continue reading All of February 2021’s Movie Trailers
Canceled flights, lost packages, fisticuffs. What could make for a worse Christmas? Death. Quite The Opening Christmas malaise finds new meaning in Alan Ball’s ensemble drama about a family-run funeral home when they must gather for a wake after the family patriarch’s untimely death in … Continue reading On The 11th Day of Christmas: Six Feet Under-“Pilot”
When Johnny wakes up dreaming of Christmas Eve parties past, forgetting that the Rose Family holiday party was organized, managed, and catered by personal and outside staff, Johnny hopes to recreate the magic of wealthier times. Also secretly hoping to celebrate the Rose Family’s newfound … Continue reading On The 7th Day of Christmas: Schitt’s Creek-“Merry Christmas, Johnny Rose”
Children’s holiday episodes often fall into two categories: a take on O. Henry (like the time TV’s Laura Ingalls sold her horse) or a gathering of the cast to transform a lonely curmudgeon into a loveable elder. This Is The Weirdest Timeline! Pete & Pete … Continue reading On The 4th Day of Christmas: The Adventures of Pete & Pete-“O Christmas Pete, O Christmas Pete”
Gilmore Girls is excellent not for its mother-daughter relationship so much as for its richly drawn world, populated by warm, loving neighbors who accept each other, no matter how cranky or aloof they may be. The Stars Hollow Dinner “The Bracebridge Dinner” is the best … Continue reading On The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Gilmore Girls-“Bracebridge”
Our nation is (well, hopefully) under lockdown: America’s offices are closed as its workers struggle to work from home, schoolchildren are learning online, and your local bartender is mixing live on Instagram. We think the latter’s super cool, but long for the time when we … Continue reading Netflix and Chill: 30-Minute Comedies to Binge During the Pandemic
Screen Scholars has provided the weekend’s trailers, fairly regularly, every Friday since the blog’s inception. The feature was carried over from a startup job that brought the founding editors together, both as a team professionally but also as colleagues with similar, pop culture-based values.
Editor’s note: When we scheduled this post for publication, movies were delayed but theaters were still open. Theaters across the country are closed today, so many of these movies have not opened. Our Scholar has chosen to let March’s trailer roundups continue; we will evaluate … Continue reading Box Office Weekend: Friday, March 27th, 2020
Editor’s note: When we scheduled this post for publication, movies were delayed but theaters were still open. Theaters across the country are closed today, so many of these movies have not opened. Our Scholar has chosen to let March’s trailer roundups continue; we will evaluate … Continue reading Box Office Weekend: Friday, March 20th, 2020
The Hunt is likely this weekend’s big movie. (You should see Bacurau instead.) The dark comedy-horror was shelved last year but is back now (you read about that in NY Mag here…) but I think you should see the abortion drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always. … Continue reading Box Office Weekend Friday, March 13th, 2020
