Tag Archives: Jenny Slate

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On review — Sweet and sad in equal measures

July 15, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp | Written by Fleischer-Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Nick Paley, and Jenny Slate | 89 min | ▲▲▲▲△ I'm sure I'm not the first person to piece this together, but it strikes me having seen Marcel The Shell With Shoes On that the real recipe for successful whimsy is one part sweetness, one… Read More

The Bob’s Burgers Movie review — The Depressed Simpsons have an adventure

June 17, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Loren Bouchard and Bernard Derriman | Written by Bouchard and Nora Smith | 102 min | ▲▲△△△ | Disney+ Right off I must admit I've never watched the Bob's Burgers TV series, so I recognize I may have a disadvantage compared to folks who know and love these characters. This is more or… Read More

Reviews: Hotel Artemis, Wildlife, Searching

March 1, 2019 flawintheiris

Hotel Artemis Writer-Producer Drew Pearce delivers a fairly original b-movie/sci-fi/crime drama for his debut as a feature filmmaker. It's 2028, and Los Angeles is going up in flames due to a city-wide riot, but the Artemis is busy. It's a clinic for criminals, where the patients are named after their room allocations. I said original, but… Read More

Venom review — A brutal misfire that wastes its great cast

October 8, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ruben Fleischer | Written by Jeff Pinker, Scott Rosenberg, and Kelly Marcel, based on the Marvel Comics character created by David Micheline and Todd McFarlane | 112 min | Netflix I bailed out of reading Marvel comics just as Venom became a thing. I recall his arrival as Spider-Man's alien super-suit from Secret… Read More

Landline review — Lots of laughs despite familiar tropes

August 11, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Gillian Robespierre | Written by Robespierre, Elisabeth Holm, and Tom Bean | 97 min An unexpected and charming dramedy about a family dealing with intergenerational angst, sex and infidelity. It's set in an interesting liminal age, the mid-'90s, that pre-millennial period before cell phones, just as home computers were beginning to change our… Read More

Obvious Child review

July 20, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Gillian Robespierre, Written by Robespierre, Karen Maine, and Elizabeth Holm, based on a short film by Robespierre, Maine, and Anna Bean I can't tell you how great it is to see a film like this with characters who speak like people I know, about the politics and reality of modern life for women… Read More