Hulu cements its status as this year’s much-needed rom-com Mvp with director/co-writer Clea Duvall’s Happiest Season, the streamer’s Christmas rom-com-dram starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Aubrey Plaza. After the smashing success of its Groundhog Day-at-a-desert-wedding summer hit Palm Springs, Hulu became the talk of Film Twitter with its starry, splashy, Sony-produced holiday love story. And for good reason.
Per Slate, Happiest Season marks a major moment in movie history: it is apparently the first major studio-backed romantic comedy centered around a queer couple. It is a trailblazing enterprise, but more importantly it’s just quality holiday fare.
Happiest Season is a surprisingly affecting tale of family, secrets and lies, all the best ingredients in any good festive jaunt. Following an adorable pre-credits establishing montage that tracks the inception and gestation of their relationship in illustrated picture book form, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist Harper Caldwell (Davis...
Per Slate, Happiest Season marks a major moment in movie history: it is apparently the first major studio-backed romantic comedy centered around a queer couple. It is a trailblazing enterprise, but more importantly it’s just quality holiday fare.
Happiest Season is a surprisingly affecting tale of family, secrets and lies, all the best ingredients in any good festive jaunt. Following an adorable pre-credits establishing montage that tracks the inception and gestation of their relationship in illustrated picture book form, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist Harper Caldwell (Davis...
- 12/6/2020
- by Alex Kirschenbaum
- Trailers from Hell
The hallmarks of a Christmas movie are by now painfully familiar: Ornate decorations, gift shopping in a generic department store, the pristine but tasteful mini-mansion, the outsider partner eager to impress the family, a large ensemble cast outlined with half-drawn quirks — mostly, if not entirely, white. Entering boldly into this bunch is “Happiest Season,” a shiny holiday comedy which is by all accounts indistinguishable from the rest save for one little detail: It’s gay!
Unfortunately, this tiny tweak isn’t enough to make a lasting impression on the genre, especially with a lackluster script that offers little in the way of surprise or delight. What’s more, including a sub-plot about a rich white man running for mayor of a Pennsylvania enclave with no mention of actual politics feels — to put it mildly — painfully out of touch.
Not just because 2020 saw Black Lives Matter protests erupt around the country,...
Unfortunately, this tiny tweak isn’t enough to make a lasting impression on the genre, especially with a lackluster script that offers little in the way of surprise or delight. What’s more, including a sub-plot about a rich white man running for mayor of a Pennsylvania enclave with no mention of actual politics feels — to put it mildly — painfully out of touch.
Not just because 2020 saw Black Lives Matter protests erupt around the country,...
- 11/19/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Hey, "The Resident" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's big premiere episode 1. Now that it's officially aired and just a thing of the past, it's time to go over a couple of plotlines that will be featured in the next, new episode 2. Thanks to the wonderful people at Fox, we do have a few teaser descriptions for the 2nd installment. So, we will certainly reference those in this spoiler session. For starters, the producers decided to name this second episode, "Flesh Of My Flesh." It sounds like episode 2 will feature some very intense, dramatic and interesting scenes as Cain attempts to get some new recruits for a very dangerous surgery. Raptor gets emotionally attached to a patient. Mina's friend delivers startling news! Devon makes a rotation. Nic delivers a surprise to Conrad and more. We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the the Cain recruitment situation.
- 9/25/2019
- by Eric
- OnTheFlix
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