Posts Tagged ‘Steve Carell’
Film Review – Last Flag Flying
One of Richard Linklater’s greatest strengths, as both a writer and a director, is revealing deeper truths about his characters through their interactions with one another. It’s one thing to film people talking, it’s another to do it and make it feel alive, thought provoking,…
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Film Review – Battle of the Sexes
Although Battle of the Sexes (2017) takes place in 1973, its themes feel unfortunately modern. That’s a sign telling us how slowly the progress of gender equality has been since. The tennis match that pitted Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs exploded in a spectacle…
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Film Review – Despicable Me 3
“You just can’t get enough of the yellow cuteness!” They say sequels are rarely as good as the first one, but when it comes to Despicable Me, it can only get better – or at least not worse. What do you expect from a second…
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Film Review – The Big Short
In addition to being an ardent film lover, I really enjoy financial scandals. (Reading about them, not committing them.) I have an MBA from the University of Washington, and most of our accounting class time was spent talking about people misbehaving with numbers. I graduated…
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Film Review – Freeheld
Freeheld (2015) is based on the true story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree, played by Julianne Moore and Ellen Page respectively. A documentary short of the same name in 2007 won the Academy Award. The film deals with a case of equality in Ocean…
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2015 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks
The Academy Awards are here again and unlike most years I am actually ready to move on to the next year. Don’t get me wrong, I will watch and get excited and angry depending on the results but most awards are pretty wrapped up except,…
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Film Review – Foxcatcher
The awards buzz swirling around Foxcatcher is no joke. Advertisements rely heavily on the tour de force performance by a nearly unrecognizable Steve Carell, and he puts in arguably the best performance of his career as an increasingly unhinged heir to the Du Pont family…
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Film Review – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Somewhere in the world, a news anchor is crying. It’s late and the day has been long. The world is sad and beautiful and there is only so much news a person can report. That’s the job of a news anchor, though—to keep on trucking…
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