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The friends and Oscar-nominated screenwriters have been drawn to middle aged characters going back to their days as young women at the Groundlings. “Kristen said, one day we’re going to write these characters into a movie and we’re going to write freely and we're not going to overthink anything,” Mumolo said. Now available to rent online, “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar” is a neon-hued, cocktail-soaked and music-filled bundle of joyous absurdity. ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading New Movies to Watch This Week: Barb and Star, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari and The Mauritanian Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail With the Super Bowl behind us and the Oscars looming (and a pandemic-dampened Valentine’s Day as a marketing peg), American distributors are releasing their most robust slate of new releases in months this weekend. Awards contenders “Judas and the Black Messiah” (about the FBI-sanctioned murder of Fred Hampton) and “Land” (starring and directed by Robin Wright) arrive in theaters, hot off their premieres at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival. Also on the awards-worthy indie front, A24 releases last year’s Sundance winner “Minari” on demand. Steven Yuen stars in this immigrant story with universal appeal. And if theaters are open (and safe) near you, consider catching Michelle Pfeiffer in the wickedly funny “French Exit.” ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Review: Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo Are Perfectly Daft As Middle American Fuddy-duddies on Vacation In their first script since Bridesmaids, the two actresses have given themselves a modest but winning vehicle. Owen Gleiberman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Josh Greenbaum With: Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., Vanessa Bayer, Fortune Feimster, Phyllis Smith, Reyn Doi, Ian Gomez, Michael Hitchcock, Kwame Patterson, Wendi McLendon-Covey. On “Saturday Night Live,” sketch characters arrive, connect with the audience (or not), and hit occasional sustained peaks of popularity, becoming laugh-riot fixtures and old friends. For a while, starting in the ’90s, the highest honor you could bestow upon an “SNL” character was for him or her to be given their own spin-off movie. That era faded (in 2010, “MacGruber” drove a stake thro ....
Cate Cameron/Lionsgate Instead, Wiig and Mumolo have defied expectations: the former taking on a string of oddball roles in movies both small ( Hateship Loveship, Wonder Woman 1984), and the latter co-writing, of all things, the 2017 military-combat-dog tear-jerker Megan Leavey and earning a “story by” credit on David O. Russell’s rags-to-Miracle Mop melodrama Joy. All right, sure! Listen, Hollywood is a supremely weird and difficult business, and I admire Wiig and Mumolo’s commitment to making supremely weird and difficult choices. Which brings me to the pair’s latest project, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. Story continues below advertisement ....