| ‘Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday’ Trailer and Release Date
Netflix has released a trailer for Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, the upcoming Pee-wee Herman special featuring the seemingly ageless Paul Reubens once again donning the short-legged grey suit and red bowtie. The trailer is brief but fun, including some of Pee-wee’s wacky contraptions. It also reveals the release date for the special, so fans can get it marked off on their calendar. Hint: it will be arriving on the same day as Daredevil season two, so it should be a great geeky binge day for some with two drastically different things to watch. You can check out the new trailer for Pee-wee’s Big Holiday below.
...continue reading » Tags: Alia Shawkat, Jessica Pohly, Joe Manganiello, John Lee, Judd Apatow, Netflix, Paul Reubens, Paul Rust, Pee-Wee Herman, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, Stephanie Beatriz | |
| | |
 |
| Movie Review: The Final Girls |
 |

The Final Girls
Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson
Written by M.A. Fortin & Joshua John Miller
Starring Malin Akerman, Taissa Farmiga, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Thomas Middleditch, Angela Trimbur, Chloe Bridges, Adam Devine
Vertical Entertainment
Release Date: October 9th, 2015 A friend of mine sent me the trailer to The Final Girls on Facebook with the message, “It’s like Last Action Hero as a horror movie!” So obviously I was intrigued immediately. I was excited when I went to NYCC and sat in the panel for this film, with director Todd Strauss-Schulson (Harold & Kumar 3), and star Malin Akerman (Watchmen, The Heartbreak Kid, etc.) They discussed how this isn’t a traditional horror movie, but rather a movie about coping with the loss of a parent, and how you’d react if you had one more chance to be with them… that, inside an 80s slasher setting with a Jason Voorhees style killer chasing them. What we end up with, is a movie that at times was as goofball funny as Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, while managing to evoke real heartfelt emotion. It makes The Final Girls a truly unique film.
...continue reading » Tags: Adam DeVine, Alexander Ludwig, Alia Shawkat, Angela Trimbur, Chloe Bridges, Joshua John Miller, M.A. Fortin, Malin Akerman, Taissa Farmiga, The Final Girls, Thomas Middleditch, Todd Strauss-Schulson | |
| | |
 |
| SXSW 2015 Movie Review: The Final Girls
The Final Girls
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Screenwriters: M. A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller
Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Adam DeVine, Thomas Middleditch, Alia Shawkat, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev
Release Date: March 13, 2014 Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson (A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas) The Final Girls is the latest in a growing cannon of meta-horror films. Part horror, part comedy, and all meta, The Final Girls satirizes 70’s and 80’s summer camp slasher films. The story follows Max (Taissa Farmiga, American Horror Story), a young virgin who (through mysterious circumstances which shall not be spoiled here) lands inside the very film that defined her mother’s scream queen career. Once inside, Max and her reluctant friends must survive horny camp counselors, trippy flashbacks, sing-alongs, and the deranged psycho-killer Billy (a stoic, slow-walking homage to Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th).
...continue reading » Tags: Adam DeVine, Alexander Ludwig, Alia Shawkat, Malin Akerman, Nina Dobrev, SXSW, SXSW 2015, Taissa Farmiga, The Final Girls, Thomas Middleditch, Todd Strauss-Schulson | |
| | |
 |
| SXSW 2014 Review: Wild Canaries
Wild Canaries
Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Cast: Sophia Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Alia Shawkat, Annie Parisse, Jason Ritter, Kevin Corrigan
World Premiere | Little Teeth Pictures
Not Rated | 98 Minutes
Release Date: March 8, 2014 Barri (Sophia Takal, V/H/S) and Noah (writer-director Lawrence Michael Levine), a newly engaged couple, are saddened by the death of their elderly downstairs neighbor, Sylvia. Though Noah sees nothing unusual about the old woman’s death, Barri suspects foul play and sets out to investigate the murder, enlisting her roommate Jean (Arrested Development‘s Alia Shawkat) to join her on a reconnaissance mission to trail a possible suspect. When the investigation uncovers unsettling secrets throughout the apartment building, suddenly everyone seems like a reasonable suspect.
...continue reading » | | |
 |
| Movie Review: The To-Do List |
 |
The To-Do List
Director: Maggie Carey
Screenwriter: Maggie Carey
Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Johnny Simmons, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat, Rachel Bilson, Connie Britton, Clark Gregg
CBS Films | 3 Arts Entertainment
Rated R | 104 Minutes
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Set in the summer of 1993, Maggie Carey‘s The To-Do List stars Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Safety Not Guaranteed) as an awkward, overachieving high school senior who attempts to lose her virginity before going away to college. The To-Do List is a raunchy high school sex comedy in the “Let’s Get Laid!” tradition of films like 1982’s Goin’ All The Way, The Last American Virgin, and Porky’s. What’s refreshing about this slice of ’90s nostalgia is how it approaches the coming-of-age / end-of-innocence story from the female perspective. Plaza plays Brandy Clark, a bookish valedictorian who can’t escape the ridicule of her too-cool classmates for being a goody-good. She decides to create a to-do list (in her Trapper Keeper!) of sexual experiences to get her up to speed before fall semester starts. Brandy enlists the help of best friends Wendy (Sarah Steele) and Fiona (Alia Shawkat), and the guidance of her skanky sister Amber (Rachel Bilson), to come up with a checklist of activities including French kissing, hickies, motor-boating, and all sorts of odd jobs.
...continue reading » | | |
 |
|  | |