It's pretty darn hard not to be completely charmed by the new sci-fi rom-com Save Yourselves! from writer/director team Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson. Blending the traditional beats of an alien invasion movie and a unique kind of existential dread many Millennials are more than familiar with, Save Yourselves! is ultimately a charming and poignant look at how visitors from another planet will make you realize you're not the center of the universe — and fast. [caption id="attachment_932831" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Bleecker Street[/caption] Save Yourselves! has arguably one of the …
If you’ve ever wanted to go to a cabin in the middle of nowhere and turn your phone off for a weekend, there’s a chance you might miss the news that an alien invasion has occurred. That’s the central premise of the sci-fi comedy Save Yourselves!, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and the film’s trailer has now been released online. Sunita Mani (GLOW) and John Reynolds (Search Party) play a “hip Brooklyn couple” who decide to unplug and head to cabin in the woods for a whole week, during which they agree …