Posts Tagged ‘Elizabeth Banks’
Film Review – Skincare
There are a lot of themes running throughout Skincare (2024), but I’m not so sure it examines any of them thoroughly. It has the tone of a satire, but what exactly is it satirizing? Is it about the shallowness of Hollywood? Is it about a female trying…
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Episode 133 – Cocaine Bear
For this podcast episode, we review the violent ensemble comedy, Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks. We also tell you which tv shows we’d like to see given a prestige Blu-ray release by the Criterion Collection. For the streaming homework, we review Takashi Miike‘s 2017…
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Film Review – The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
The LEGO Movie (2014) came as a kind of revelation. Here was a film that was – in essence – a feature length commercial for the LEGO building blocks toys. Yet under the guidance of the writing/directing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, we…
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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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SXSW Interview – Tommy O’Haver and Michael Chernus – The Most Hated Woman in America
I sat down to talk with director/writer Tommy O’Haver (An American Crime) and actor Michael Chernus (Orange is the New Black, Manhattan) about their upcoming Netflix film, The Most Hated Woman in America, which screened at SXSW. We discussed the casting and the separation of…
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Film Review – Power Rangers
As a kid, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television show existed as a means to distract myself during its thirty-minute timeslot. I didn’t commit to watching it whenever it came on. Sometimes I would stop to catch it while flipping channels. I didn’t have a…
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Film Review – Magic Mike XXL
I had a pretty crappy day yesterday. (The day before I wrote this, not the day before you are reading it.) I had the pms, ate too much dark chocolate, and then had to take something for my hormone and caffeine induced anxiety spiral. I…
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SIFF Interview – Atticus Ross – Love & Mercy
Spencer interviews composer Atticus Ross from the biographical drama Love & Mercy at SIFF 2015.
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