Sara Stewart, Author at Book and Film Globe

Friday, January 22, 2021

Soul

A Little Bit of ‘Soul’

December 26, 2020December 29, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Angela Bassett, Atticus Ross, Graham Norton, Jamie Foxx, jazz, Nine Inch Nails, Pete Docter, Pixar, Pizza Rat, Soul, Tina Fey, Trent Reznor, Wall-E

Pixar’s latest imagines its most unrealistic scenario yet: a New York City teeming with life and culture

Run

FILM TELEVISION

‘Run’ Hurries Straight to the Action

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Ali Stroker, Aneesh Chagnaty, Flowers In The Attic, Hulu, Kiera Allen, Run, Sarah Paulson, Sharp Objects

A quick and nasty little mother-daughter thriller on Hulu

Hillbilly Elegy

Up From Appalachia

November 28, 2020December 10, 2020 Sara Stewart 8 Comments

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ proposes that to escape poverty, you just have to want to go to Yale bad enough

Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt Returns to Tomorrow

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Blade Runner, Don Hertzfeldt, The Simpsons, World of Tomorrow

The master of animated stick-figure existential humor is back

Kajillionaire

Who Wants to be a Kajillionaire?

September 29, 2020September 28, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Debra Winger, Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Kajillionaire, Miranda July, Richard Jenkins

In Miranda July’s latest, a family of weird grifters skim off the surface of Los Angeles

Movie theaters

I Don’t Want To Go Back To the Movies Yet

September 18, 2020September 21, 2020 Sara Stewart 1 Comment AMC, Bill and Ted, Cinemark, COVID-19, Movie theaters, Mulan, Tenet

A career critic says: Stay away

I'm Thinking Of Ending Things

‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’

September 4, 2020September 8, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Charlie Kaufman, David Thewlis, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette

Charlie Kaufman, master of psychological horror?

Class Action Park

DOCUMENTARY FILM

‘Class Action Park’: Amusing Ourselves to Death

August 28, 2020September 3, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Chris Charles Scott III, Chris Gethard, Class Action Park, John Hodgman, Seth Porges

HBO Max documentary about legendary 1980s New Jersey playground brings back the pain

Tesla

Dim Bulb

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments David Bowie, Elon Musk, Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Almereyda, Tesla

Ethan Hawke’s unconventional ‘Tesla’ could use some more spark

Go-Go's

DOCUMENTARY FILM

The Beat Goes On

August 5, 2020August 19, 2020 Sara Stewart 1 Comment Alison Ellwood, Beauty and the Beat, Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Kathy Valentine, The Go-Gos

Documentary revives the reputation of the Go-Go’s, one of the great bands of the 80s

‘The Rental’ doesn’t quite check out

July 27, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Allison Brie, Dan Stevens, Dave Franco, horror, Jeremy Allen White, Sheila Vand, The Rental

A promising setup falls short of its potential

The Old Guard

Long Live Charlize Theron

July 15, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron, Gina Price-Blythewood, Greg Rucka, KiKi Layne, Luca Marinelli, Marwan Kenzari, Matthias Schoenaerts, The Old Guard

In ‘The Old Guard’, she kicks ass with her immortal crew

The Truth

You Can Handle ‘The Truth’

July 6, 2020July 5, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Catherine Deneuve, Ethan Hawke, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Juliette Binoche, Shoplifters, The Truth

Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda teams up with Catherine Deneuve for an intimate French family drama

Da 5 bloods

In ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ Spike Lee Refuses to Look Away

June 12, 2020June 16, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments

Vietnam drama is both devastatingly on point and an overlong slog