Posts Tagged ‘Kathryn Hahn’
Episode 127 – Avatar: The Way of Water & Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
For this week’s episode, we review the long-awaited blockbuster sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water by James Cameron and Rian Johnson‘s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Also, for our streaming homework, we discuss Richard Linklater‘s animated love letter to 1960s suburban life, Apollo 10 1/2:…
READ MOREFilm Review – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 has given us a wealth of murder mysteries and “whodunnits,” each having various levels of success. Writer/director Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) stands near the top of the heap. A follow up to his hit Knives Out (2019), Johnson takes us on another romp with…
READ MOREEpisode 57 – Tenet
For this episode of the podcast, we discuss all of the feature films by director Christopher Nolan, including his latest sci-fi epic, Tenet. We also get to our last Christmas movie review of 2020, A Bad Moms Christmas, which is available to stream on Netflix.…
READ MOREFilm Review – A Bad Moms Christmas
Throughout Bad Moms (2017) and now with A Bad Moms Christmas (2017), I keep wondering to myself: what exactly is so bad about these moms? Amy (Mila Kunis), Kiki (Kristen Bell), and Carla (Kathryn Hahn) are all determined, strong mothers who bend over backwards so…
READ MOREFilm Review – Captain Fantastic
In writer/director Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic (2016), a father named Ben (Viggo Mortensen) raises his six kids deep in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. He puts them through tough physical and mental training. They learn how to live off of the land: grow their…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Visit
Hey, here’s a twist for you: M. Night Shyamalan is interesting again! Okay, not especially, but he’s sure trying. Between this and his foray into television, Wayward Pines, it seems Shyamalan fell asleep at his laptop in a ZzzQuil haze with The X-Files on in…
READ MOREFilm Review – The D Train
Dan Landsman (Jack Black), the main character of Andrew Mogel and Jarred Paul’s The D Train (2015) is one of the saddest people I’ve seen in awhile. He’s narcissistic, condescending, and hungry for attention. Underneath the layer of confidence is a sensitive individual who borders…
READ MOREFilm Review – Bad Words
Thanks in large part to Arrested Development‘s absurdly rabid fanbase and cultural status, Jason Bateman has experienced a career resurgence that would make Travolta blush (and presumably mispronounce.) He’s spent the past decade in a wide range of roles, most of which require him to…
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