Posts Tagged ‘Judy Greer’
Film Review – Halloween (2018)
Director David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) is the best entry in the long running series featuring the masked killer known as Michael Myers. It has a great admiration for John Carpenter’s classic original, while doing just enough to stand on its own legs. The franchise…
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Film Review – Lemon
I usually bristle at the descriptor “anti-comedy,” but am struggling to come up with another term to accurately sum up Janicza Bravo‘s Lemon, starring husband and dependable weirdo Brett Gelman. Those familiar with Gelman’s stand up and occasional Adult Swim forays won’t be shocked to…
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SIFF Interview – Brett Gelman & Janicza Bravo – Lemon
Spencer interviews co-writer/star Brett Gelman and co-writer/director Janicza Bravo from the dramedy Lemon at SIFF 2017.
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Film Review – Wilson
I’ve seen Ghost World roughly a dozen times and Art School Confidential exactly once. That’s not meant as condemnation against the latter, necessarily, although I think it says something that I’ve not ever had the inclination to re-investigate.
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Film Review – Grandma
Are abortion movies a thing now? Called the first “abortion comedy,” Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child dealt with the issue head on, and now another movie, Grandma written and directed by Paul Weitz, takes another straightforward look at a woman choosing to terminate her pregnancy. And…
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Film Review – Ant-Man
As the Marvel Cinematic Universe enters its third phase, there have been questions of whether the journey the characters we’ve become familiar with (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, etc.) have started to run stale. While Avengers: Age of Ultron had plenty of fun moments, a…
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Film Review – Men, Women & Children
It’s high time we stage an intervention for Jason Reitman, guys. It won’t be pleasant but he needs to hear the truth about how his actions of late have affected us. You go ahead and take Labor Day and I’ll cover Men, Women & Children.…
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Interview – Kimberly Peirce – Carrie (2013)
Spencer interviews director Kimberly Peirce from the horror remake Carrie (2013).
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