CABLE | Sound and 'WandaVision' – Marvel Channels Sitcom History

Marvel Studios

Stars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany revisit their Avengers characters, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch and Vision, through sitcom television history in the trippy new throwback streaming series WandaVision created by screenwriter Jac Schaeffer. It's a highly original, surreal take on comic book storytelling using the half-hour comedy format to explore its strange universe of superheroes.

CINEMA | Growing 'Minari' – Steven Yeun Finds His American Dream

"Grandma smells like Korea."

A24 / Elevation Pictures

Korean-American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung (no relation) has made a startlingly moving and quietly emotional semi-autobiographical immigrant story set on a rural farm in 1980s Arkansas. Starring Steven Yeun (Chung's cousin by marriage) as a version of the writer/director's own farmer father, Minari tells a wondrously intimate tale of assimilating to the American Dream.

SCREEN | Jason Segel Takes Care of 'Our Friend'

"Don't be afraid to give yourself to somebody."

Gravitas Ventures / Elevation Pictures

Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite's relationship dramedy Our Friend documents the adult friendship history of a real-life married couple, Nicole and Matt (Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck), and their college friend Dane (Jason Segel) over many years and after one of them gets sick with terminal cancer and is about to die. It's both a heartwarming and heartbreaking story of true friendship.

GENRE | A 'Promising Young Woman' Gets Her Revenge

"That is just asking for it."

Focus Features / LuckyChap Entertainment

British actress and filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who recently played Camila Parker Bowles in The Crown in addition to showrunning season two of Killing Eve, makes her feature directorial debut with a twisted dark comedy revenge thriller with a deceptively bright bubblegum pop gloss to it. Starring Carey Mulligan as a contemporary femme fatale, Promising Young Woman is all about an underestimated bombshell in disguise exacting her own form of disturbing vigilante justice against would-be male rapists.

KAFFE | Aperture Coffee Bar x Riley Park–Little Mountain

Riley Park–Little Mountain—The photography-themed Aperture Coffee Bar's second location on Main Street feels much more unassuming than it actually is.

SCREEN | Vanessa Kirby Breaks Apart 'Pieces of a Woman'

"She got it gray like her soul. That's her spirit colour."

Bron Studios

British actress Vanessa Kirby gives a career-best performance as an expectant mother turned grieving one in Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó's messy tragedy piece, Pieces of a Woman. Despite the tour-de-force acting and high sense of tense melodrama, the intimate film folds parental suffering into a basic melange of circumstantial grief and dramatized trauma.

SCREEN | In the Mood for 'Sylvie's Love' on Prime Video

"I can't be the woman of your dreams while also trying to be the woman of my own."

Amazon Studios

An always lovely Tessa Thompson gives another sensational performance in a good ol’ fashioned star-crossed period romance in the traditional Hollywood melodrama mold. How writer/director Eugene Ashe expresses the purity of 1950s Black love feels just as warm as it is endearing in the sumptuous Sylvie's Love.

CINEMA | Top 10 Films of 2020

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) First Cow (dir. Kelly Reichardt)

2) The Nest (dir. Sean Durkin)

3) Lovers Rock (dir. Steve McQueen)

4) I'm Thinking of Ending Things (dir. Charlie Kaufman)

5) Minari (dir. Lee Isaac Chung)

6) The Climb (dir. Michael Angelo Covino)

7) American Utopia (dir. Spike Lee)

8) Swallow (dir. Carlo Mirabella-Davis)

9) Da 5 Bloods (dir. Spike Lee)

10) The Vast of Night (dir. Andrew Patterson)

CINEMA | Gal Gadot Throws Back to 'Wonder Woman 1984'

"This world is not ready for all that you will do."

Warner Bros. Pictures / DC Films

Director Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot both return for their long-delayed but still highly anticipated and jam-packed DC Comics superhero sequel set some sixty-five years after the first film in WWI. Wonder Woman 1984 feels more than just an unabashed throwback to the long bygone spirit of the original 1970-80s Superman films as a bright and colourful adventure romance designed to comment on our current cultural political climate through glossy '80s culture contrasted with acts of kindness.