Sara Stewart, Author at Book and Film Globe

Aline

Her Heart Will Sort Of Go On

April 13, 2022 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Aline, Celine Dion, Valerie Lemercier

‘Aline’ doesn’t really do justice to Celine Dion’s weird legacy

Jackass

Is ‘Jackass’ Cruel to Animals?

February 7, 2022April 3, 2022 Sara Stewart 1 Comment Bam Margera, Jackass Forever, Johnny Knoxville, PETA

The old guys doing human stunts is still fun. The monkey business isn’t anymore.

Leo Grande

It Was a Dark and Stormy Sundance

January 28, 2022 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Call Jane, Carey Williams, Emergency, Emma Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, Good Luck To You Leo Grande, Marilyn Manson, Phoenix Rising, Sundance

Lots of great movies, anxious about our times

MacGruber

Classic MacGruber

January 18, 2022January 24, 2022 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Adam Scott, Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar, Billy Zane, Jorma Taccone, Kristen Wiig, Macgruber, Michael Bay, Scott Aukerman, Val Kilmer, Will Forte

The funniest show on TV is hiding in plain sight on Peacock

Barb and Star

The Best Movies Of 2021

December 29, 2021December 31, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar, Candyman, Dune, Kurt Vonnegut Unstuck In Time, Nicolas Cage, Petite Maman, Pig, Spencer, The Lost Daughter, West Side Story

Scenes from a weird year

Don't Look Up

Don’t Watch This

December 17, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Adam McKay, Cate Blanchett, Don't Look Up, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, Tyler Perry

‘Don’t Look Up,’ a disastrous disaster comedy from Adam McKay

Spencer

Kristen Stewart Nails It in ‘Spencer’

November 6, 2021November 16, 2021 Sara Stewart 1 Comment Kristen Stewart, Pablo Larrain, Sally Hawkins, Spencer, The Crown

A shockingly great performance as Princess Diana

French Dispatch

The Twee Yorker

October 28, 2021April 3, 2022 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Léa Seydoux, Owen Wilson, The French Dispatch, Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, Wes Anderson

‘The French Dispatch,’ Wes Anderson’s overstuffed valentine to classic magazines and New Wave cinema

Dear Evan Hansen

Oh Dear, ‘Evan Hansen’

September 13, 2021April 3, 2022 Sara Stewart 1 Comment amandla stenberg, Amy Adams, Ben Platt, Cats, Dear Evan Hansen, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Stephen Chbosky, You Will Be Found

The film adaptation of the popular musical about teen anxiety is super awkward

Swan Song

Udo Kier Gets Fabulous in ‘Swan Song’

August 10, 2021August 7, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans, Swan Song, Todd Stephens, Udo Kier

A legendary character actor’s first leading role in 50 years

Val

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Val Kilmer: Man of Mystery

August 6, 2021August 17, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Anthony Edwards, Kevin Bacon, Lee Scott, Real Genius, Sean Penn, The Doors, Ting Poo, Tom Cruise, Tombstone, Top Secret!, val, Val Kilmer

Documentary is a window into one of Hollywood’s great eccentrics

Zola

‘Zola’ Ends up Exploiting Women Anyway

July 1, 2021March 16, 2022 Sara Stewart 0 Comments

Sex work Twitter-thread film adaptation isn’t as entertaining or wild as it thinks

The Woman in the Window

Broken ‘Window’

May 14, 2021March 15, 2022 Sara Stewart 2 Comments A.J. Finn, Amy Adams, Dan Mallory, Gary Oldman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Wright, Julianne Moore, The Woman In The Window, Tracy Letts, Wyatt Russell

The doomed ‘Woman in the Window’ adaptation on Netflix is about as bad as you could expect

Columnist

‘The Columnist’ Takes Revenge on Her Haters

May 6, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Daan Windhorst, Hillbilly Elegy, Ivo Van Aart, Promising Young Woman, The Columnist

Dutch dark comedy is not as clever as it thinks it is

Coming 2 America

‘Coming 2 America’ is Deeply, Embarrassingly Bad

March 5, 2021March 30, 2021 Sara Stewart 12 Comments Arsenio Hall, Coming 2 America, Coming to America, Eddie Murphy, Jermaine Fowler, John Amos, Leslie Jones, Sexual Chocolate, Tracy Morgan, Wesley Snipes

Eddie Murphy is the straight man, and that’s the least of its problems

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