Sarah Gorr

1 week ago | thespool.net | Sarah Gorr |David Cronenberg

In , David Cronenberg’s infinite love for the human body is on par only with his love for his late wife, Carolyn. If there were any doubts the director is speaking of himself here, Vincent Cassel’s particularly Cronenbergian shock of white hair should dispel them. As an obvious stand-in for the auteur, Cassel plays Karsh, a widower who’s “made a career out of bodies”.

2 weeks ago | thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Sarah Gorr

The Spool / Reviews Your Friends & Neighbors are a bit much at times How to Watch FX Live Without CableHow To Watch AMC Without CableHow to Watch ABC Without CableHow to Watch Paramount Network Without Cable In Jonathan Tropper’s new AppleTV+ series, Your Friends & Neighbors, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Jon Hamm) is the sort of miserable only money can buy. After years of social and corporate climbing, he had reached the top. The sprawling home in the gated community.

2 weeks ago | hi-femme.com | Sarah Gorr

In Old Boyfriends, Dianne (Talia Shire) takes a look at the great loves of her life and asks herself the question we’re often too young or unsure to even know to ask: Who was I when I loved them? She doesn’t ask why she loved them, that she seems to know. But the who of it all? Recognizing your capacity for change and nonjudgmentally approaching your past selves with curiosity and understanding? Getting that kind of nuance in 1979 when we’re still begging for it in 2025 is a downright miracle.

3 weeks ago | thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Sarah Gorr

I won’t do the disservice of saying, “It isn’t really about sex.” For one thing, the Elizabeth Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock adaptation of the Nikki Boyer podcast is ABSOLUTELY about sex. For another, the real-life people who inspired Molly (Michelle Williams) and Nikki (Jenny Slate) would no doubt set me straight if they ever came across my review. Rather, isn’t JUST about sex. Or, perhaps more accurately, sex isn’t really JUST about sex.

4 weeks ago | thespool.net | Lisa Laman |Sarah Gorr |Tim Stevens

We’ve all had rough family vacations. But hey, at least none of us had to start these outings by running over a unicorn. That’s just the bizarre scenario ensnaring Ridley Kintner (Jenna Ortega) and her dad Elliot (Paul Rudd) as writer/director Alex Scharfman’s begins. At first, they were just driving to a mansion owned by Odell (Richard E. Grant) and Belinda Leopold (Tea Leoni), Elliot’s pharmaceutical kingpin bosses.