Posts Tagged ‘Anna Kendrick’
Film Review – Another Simple Favor
A Simple Favor (2018) has developed a small but dedicated fan base. Mixing comedy, sex, intrigue, fashion, and soap opera level melodrama, the suburban thriller felt like a trashy novel best enjoyed with a mixed drink. I say that as a compliment. While I wasn’t the…
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Film Review – Woman of the Hour
Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour (2023) is a tense and insightful thriller in which a struggling actor crosses paths with a serial killer on the television show The Dating Game in the 1970s. But Kendrick – along with screenwriter Ian McDonald – doesn’t just focus on this brief…
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Film Review – Self Reliance
Jake Johnson takes on the triple threat role of writer, director, and star of Self Reliance (2023). His feature-length directorial debut is equal parts absurdist thriller and sweet romance. Like that of The Most Dangerous Game (1932), the film uses the concept of humans being hunted down for sport. In…
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Film Review – Alice, Darling
Alice, Darling (2022) marks a turn for Anna Kendrick. Most of her career has been filled with comedies and musicals, with the occasional exception sprinkled throughout. Here, we see her in a deeply serious drama involving abuse, trauma, and toxic relationships. While we haven’t seen her in…
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Film Review – Stowaway
Stowaway (2021) presents a moral dilemma wrapped up in a sci-fi setting. It’s not interested in alien invasions, space adventures, or the overwhelming mysteries of the galaxy. Instead, it’s story is far more grounded – for lack of a better term. A small group of astronauts…
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Film Review – A Simple Favor
The trailer might tout it as being “from the darker side of director Paul Feig,” (Bridesmaids, The Heat) but rest assured, A Simple Favor is packed to the gills with laughs amidst all the luridness. Based on Darcey Bell‘s 2017 trashy beach read of the…
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Film Review – Pitch Perfect 3
Pitch Perfect (2012) came as lightening in a bottle. You had a handful of talented actresses with excellent chemistry, coming together to tell an entertaining story about accepting others for their differences and following your dreams. It was this small film that happened to come…
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Film Review – Trolls
“Happiness is inside all of us, sometimes you just need someone to help you find it.” The 90’s was a fun time with fun toys for me and millions of American children all over the nation. Connect four, Slinky, Simon, Moon Shoes, Chinese Jacks, Tamogotchi…
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