Previously on The Littlest Winslow…I set out to watch every single Best Picture winner in the history of the Academy Awards. I’ve been blogging about the experience. I have come to regret this life choice. It’s been a long time since I posted about my Epic Film Quest – my journey / pitiful attempt at watching all…
In Hello, My Name Is Doris, a woman in her 60s vies for the attention of her new and much younger co-worker, while trying to break out of a shell she’s spent decades hiding in. What sounds like safe rom-com terrain (and it is) turns into a heartwarming and empowering anti-ageist tale about reinventing yourself and trusting your gut. Doris (played with…
Paul Feig ain’t afraid of no ghosts. He ain’t afraid of no trolls either. The Freaks and Geeks creator’s reboot of the seminal 1984 classic Ghostbusters hit theaters this weekend, and quite frankly, I enjoyed the hell out of it. If you aren’t aware of the backlash against it by now, Google “misogyny” and surely, pages and pages…
No matter which side you’ve chosen – Team Iron Man or Team Captain – everyone who went to see Captain America: Civil War is sure as hell on Team Marvel. The movie’s earned some serious cabbage, having pulled in just under $180 million in less than a week, as moviegoers rushed to see Iron Man…
Arrested Development, Wet Hot American Summer, Fuller House, the ladies Gilmore…Netflix has become an entertainment necromancer, reviving old favorites from the dead for the flocks of fans who just can’t seem to let go. Despite the mixed feelings circulating this peanut gallery called the Internet and the varying results produced by these revivals, I’m mostly…
One probably wouldn’t think that a movie titled Sausage Party is actually a cute looking cartoon. But don’t you worry – it’s still as demented and twisted as that other “sausage party” you were thinking about, pervert. Welcome to Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg’s new animated, DEFINITELY not kid-friendly feature film! Rogan and Goldberg — who…
We’ve been hearing about the upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic since 2010 and with Sasha Baron Cohen attached to star as the enigmatic, vivacious Mercury, there were plenty of reasons to be excited. But three years ago, Baron Cohen announced that he was no longer attached to the buzzworthy project, without much explanation. Yesterday, in a new…
Blockbuster season is almost upon us and as always, it’s looking like a packed summer at the movies. Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse, Star Trek 3, Jason Bourne, and Suicide Squad are just a few of the movies on the docket to titillate geek boners worldwide. As rad as some of these movies are…
When the Zoolander sequel opens, we find a young douchebag running down a dark alleyway. That douchebag is the movie’s first celebrity cameo – Justin Bieber – and he dies. Brutally, bloodily, satisfyingly. Someone in the Zoo-niverse is tracking and killing some of the world’s biggest pop stars, and they all die with a single…
Next month, Pee-wee is BACK! Thanks to Netflix, the new movie will make its debut March 18 on the streaming service, seeing the return of Paul Rueben’s off-kilter Pee-wee Herman for the first time (in film) since 1988’s Big Top Pee-wee. In Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, a fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to…