When their mom makes him take the kid to a friend’s bat mitzvah, he meets and falls for Dakota Johnson, gets her autistic daughter to dance, and is immediately swarmed by Jewish mothers who want to hire him as a party-starter for their kids’ bar and bat mitzvahs. Raiff is writer/director and ingratiating leading man, fresh-out-of-college and sleeping on a cot in his little brother’s bedroom. – Linda HolmesĬooper Raiff follows up his charming (if terribly titled) filmmaking debut S***house, with an indie romance at least twice as charming. They are doing a remake of this with a Latinx family Andy Garcia is the patriarch, Gloria Estefan is the mom. And when my sister got married a few years after this movie, which we both loved, I made her a pair of bedazzled tennis shoes, which she wore at the reception under her dress when she got out of her heels.
There’s a moment in that movie where Martin, who is a sneaker magnate, has a bedazzled pair of tennis shoes made for his daughter to wear under her wedding dress. The 90s version was a very particular era of Steve Martin. But I’ve always thought this movie was funny and ultimately, really sweet. Of course, you definitely do not want to spend too much time with the harried father paying for the expensive wedding. And that is obviously a remake of a Spencer Tracy movie, where Elizabeth Taylor played his daughter. One of the movies that is a gigantic comfort-food pick for me is the 90s-era Nancy Meyers Father Of The Bride with Steve Martin. This time, Viggo Mortensen and Lea Seydoux are a pair of performance artists who perform live surgery in front of audiences, demonstrating how Viggo’s character can grow and mutate his internal organs due to a condition called “Accelerated Evolution Syndrome.” Sing with me: “Tale as old as tiiiiiiiiime….” – Glen Weldon – Bob Mondelloĭavid Cronenberg is back, and back to his old trippy/gooey/disquietingly pulsating body-horror tricks, bless him. But if experimental and ambitious count as draws for you, this has plenty of both those qualities. It’s enigmatic, poetic, allegorical, operatic, eerie, and so determinedly non-linear, it’s hard to tell what’s going on at any given moment. – Glen WeldonĪn afro-futurist, sci-fi musical set and shot in Rwanda, this first film by slam-poet/composer Saul Williams and actor/writer Anisia Uzeyman debuted in 2021 at Cannes, and became a festival darling invited to show at Toronto, Sundance, London, New York and a host of other fests last year. According to the trailer, at least, it’s going to be directly addressing the white, rich, cis privilege of the queer community, and of Fire Island in particular. It’s going to be telling this very familiar story from a perspective we haven’t seen a lot before. It matters who’s telling the story, because the film’s two leads are Booster and Bowen Yang. Take the bones of Pride And Prejudice, and map it over the way that gay men tend to sort ourselves into these very insular cliques based on things like race and income level and age and body fat percentage, and frankly, it just works. This seems to be a kind of raucous gay romcom set in a very privileged queer vacation destination, Fire Island.Īnd the idea behind this movie is just so simple and inevitable. Both of those movies are really kind of quiet and introspective, but this doesn’t seem to be. He directed two films I really like called Spa Night and Driveways.
This is a film written by and starring the very funny Joel Kim Booster, directed by Andrew Ahn. It’s opening in theaters, but I probably would have been fine seeing it on streaming first. I do worry that this film has kind of gotten buried. But one of the best things is obviously the music and the songs, so I’m excited for those. There are many things Bob’s Burgers does well. The trailer is a lot of Gene yelling things at the other siblings, and lots of one-off liners. Apparently, they have, like, a week to keep their restaurant afloat, and the kids get into a mystery of some sort to try and save it.
We know the main cast will be there – Bob, Linda, Tina, all of them. Every week my partner and I will sit down, have dinner and watch the newest episode. I’ve seen every episode of Bob’s Burgers at least once.
Here’s what NPR critics have their eyes on, in order of release date.
Just like there’s too much TV to keep track of, the summer movie slate is jam-packed after years of pandemic-induced disruption.Īs temperatures get hotter, burgers, bat mitzvahs and Baz Luhrmann are headed to the big screen.