Our Drink in the Movies team have compiled a comprehensive year-end piece that provides a shared look at each of our top 10 films of 2021. You can see their selected titles… Continue reading.
Drink in the Movies Top 10 Films of 2021
Tag: Netflix
The Lost Daughter
Written by Maria Athayde 60/100 The Lost Daughter written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhall is a movie on motherhood, unlike anything I have ever seen. In this film motherhood is messy. It is a commendable debut directorial feature for Gyllenhall … Continue reading.
Drink in the Movies Top 5 Limited Series and Television Shows of 2021
Our Drink in the Movies team have compiled a comprehensive year-end piece that provides a shared look at each of our top 5 Limited Series and Television Show selections of 2021. Our team compiled their lists based on titles that … Continue reading.
Episode 124: Don’t Look Up / West Side Story / The Hand of God
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”Steven Spielberg, Director of West Side Story (2021) Links: Apple Podcasts | Castbox | Deezer | Gaana | Google … Continue reading.
The Unforgiveable
Written by Maria Athayde 50/100 The Unforgivable, directed by Nora Fingscheidt and starring Sandra Bullock and Viola Davis fails to deliver despite its on-screen talent. The movie feels rushed, the script weak, and fails to properly develop its characters, especially … Continue reading.
Mixtape
Written by Maria Athayde 60/100 Mixtape, a Netflix film, directed by Valerie Weiss and written by Stacey Meaner is like a warm bowl of chicken noodle soup. Starring Gemma Brooke Allen as Beverly Moody and Julie Bowen as her grandmother … Continue reading.
Sentinelle
Written by Michael Clawson 60/100 A revenge thriller more determined to deliver exploitation kicks than psychological nuance, Sentinelle is generic but brisk, and solidly anchored by its lead, Olga Kurylenko. With committed, engaging intensity, Kurylenko plays Klara, a French soldier … Continue reading.
Don’t Look Up
Written by Taylor Baker 20/100 Adam McKay leapt into our home viewing shelves in the late 2000s with his numerous film team-ups with previous Gary Sanchez business partner and creative collaborator Will Ferrell in entries like Anchorman, Step Brothers, and … Continue reading.
Procession
Written by Patrick Hao 74/100 Documentarian Robert Greene has had a career of self-reflexive documentaries that are almost openly hostile to the idea of honesty within the medium. In Kate Plays Christine, a documentary about an actress preparing for the … Continue reading.
2021 Gotham Awards Wrap Up
Written by Alexander Reams “Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same.” Well, folks, the time has come. Drink in the Movies is back, bringing you awards coverage for the 2021-2022 season, and tonight we begin with the … Continue reading.