Posts Tagged ‘Maya Rudolph’
Episode 148 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
This week, television writer Alec Engerson joins us to discuss the Hollywood guild strikes and their demands. We also review the new animated feature, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. And for our streaming homework, Alec leads the conversation about Jim Jarmusch‘s 1999 crime film,…
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Film Review – Disenchanted
Enchanted (2007) came as a surprise in how it balanced a traditional fairytale with a modern sensibility. It worked to undermine the familiar tropes of princesses, dashing heroes, and evil witches – and yet it had such an earnest sensibility that it can win over the…
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Episode 74 – Luca and F9
For this episode, we review the latest entry in the Fast and Furious saga, F9, and we review Pixar‘s recent release, Luca. We also list six of our favorite summer-time movies and give a few other recommendations. At the end of the podcast, we discuss…
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Film Review – Luca
Disney/Pixar’s latest offering, Luca (2021) is a gorgeously rendered, brightly colored fantasy tackling themes of friendship and identity. It is also one of the slightest productions we’ve seen from the studio. In the grand scheme of things, it’s a perfectly acceptable, family friendly movie with a strong…
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Film Review – Sisters
The new Tina Fey/Amy Poehler joint Sisters accomplishes the number one thing that is required of a comedy. It is funny. Damn funny. I mean full on hard belly laugh funny. We can discuss the artistic merits of film and the depth of character or…
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SIFF Film Review – The Skeleton Twins
It’s kind of remarkable. Saturday Night Live alumni from the 21st century have been showing up in films where they’ve created some really strong character work as of late. If you look at the recent work of Andy Samberg in Celeste and Jesse Forever or…
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SIFF Film Review – The Way, Way Back
Adolescence is a rough time for everybody. And the movies have a long, varied tradition of pumping out various coming-of-age tales. Some have been classics; some, not so much. But for anyone that is living through or has lived through their early teenage years, a lot…
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Film Review – Friends with Kids
I don’t know why it is so hard to make a good romantic comedy anymore. I want to laugh. I want to watch nice, funny people fall in love. Instead, I get unfunny, stupid crap that hurts me. For every one Easy A, I get…
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