Posts Tagged ‘Jake Lacy’
Film Review – Being the Ricardos
Through the 1950s, few television shows were as big as I Love Lucy. Viewers tuned in every week to see real life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz navigate the hijinks of marriage. Even today, “Lucy and Ricky” are referenced as one of the classic…
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Film Review – Rampage
Rampage (2018) is the kind of movie phrases like “mindless entertainment” were invented to describe. It serves no other purpose than to provide audiences with escapism for two hours. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Some of the best movies ever made were created to…
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Film Review – Miss Sloane
A dramatic political thriller is just what we need to end 2016, right? Miss Sloane is not a documentary, but surely echoes the climate and corruption evident in political offices and lobbying.
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Film Review – Carol
When two women meet and fall in love in New York in the late 1940s, societal deviance becomes a search for safety in director Todd Hayne‘s (Safe, Mildred Pierce) latest movie Carol. Based on the novel The Price of Salt and starring Cate Blanchett and…
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SIFF Interview – Jenny Slate & Gillian Robespierre – Obvious Child
Spencer interviews writer/director Gillian Robespierre and star Jenny Slate from the romantic comedy Obvious Child at SIFF 2014.
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SIFF Film Review – Obvious Child
Director Gillian Robespierre and star Jenny Slate‘s Obvious Child has done something close to impossible in creating a fun yet surprisingly serious romantic comedy. We start with seeing Donna (Jenny Slate), a twenty-something stand-up comedian in the middle of her set. This at first had…
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