Tag Archives: Adam McKay

Don’t Look Up review — Killer comet satire crushes

December 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Adam McKay | Written by McKay and David Sirota | 138 min | Netflix The biggest movie on Netflix this season has also turned out to be the most controversial. The screeds against it are plenty — a passel of well-regarded reviewers have called the disaster movie, cleverly, "disastrous," and its director a… Read More

Vice review — Political satire leaves bitter aftertaste

January 3, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Adam McKay | 132 min Vice is being compared to the Adam McKay's The Big Short, the film that proved the longtime comedy writer, director, and producer, could deliver a political dramedy that illustrated, with a lot of wit, some fairly complex ideas around finance and systemic corruption. McKay shoots for… Read More

The Big Short review — Where were you when the bubble burst?

December 27, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Adam McKay | Written by McKay and Charles Randolph, adapting a book by Michael Lewis | 130 min | ▲▲▲▲△ After Jay Roach and Trumbo, McKay is the second example this month of a director of comedies—in McKay's case, Will Ferrell diversions such as The Other Guys and Anchorman—taking a left turn into docudrama, though… Read More

Ant-Man review — Incredible shrinking man brings so-so superheroics

July 19, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Peyton Reed, Written by Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Paul Rudd, and Adam McKay, from the Marvel Comics character by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby I'm a fan of what Marvel does. A series of interconnected movies about superheroes, stories told with intelligence and humour, they're wildly and deservedly popular and, for… Read More