Tag Archives: Jason Reitman

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review — Maybe call someone else this time

March 26, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Gil Kenan | Written by Kenan and Jason Reitman | 115 min | ▲▲△△△ | In Cinemas It's been awhile since I've seen a blockbuster franchise extension as calculated as this new Ghostbusters movie, and yet it has moments that provide a genuine twang of nostalgia for the 1984 movie that everyone loves,… Read More

Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters (1984), and Ghostbusters II (1989) reviews

November 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason Reitman | Written by Reitman and Gil Kenan, based on Ghostbusters written by Harold Ramis, Dan Akyroyd, and an uncredited Rick Moranis | 124 min | Netflix Another "legacequel" comes down the pike, and on the surface this seems like the most cynical kind of Hollywood factory product. "Oh, so you whiny Ghostbusters… Read More

The Front Runner review — Charts political scandal when dignity mattered

November 29, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason Reitman | Written by Reitman, Jay Carson, and Matt Bai, based on the book All The Truth Is Out by Bai| 113 min A prestige drama getting no buzz at all this 2018 fall film season is The Front Runner, which is about the 1988 run for president by Democrat Gary Hart. His dreams… Read More

Tully review — A blindingly honest motherhood dramedy

May 7, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason Reitman | Written by Diablo Cody | 96 min Jason Reitman is the celebrated filmmaker of Thank You For Smoking and Up In The Air, and with Oscar-winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody, the teen-pregnancy dramedy Juno and Young Adult. His past two projects were explorations of unpopular genres that landed DOA at the box office;… Read More

Reviews: The Homesman, Men Women & Children, Song One, Gemma Bovery, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Black Sea

May 4, 2015 flawintheiris

A few thoughts on movies now available on VOD, DVD and Blu-Ray The Homesman A powerfully sui generis western, the kind of a story that steps over so many of the generic Hollywood screenwriting conventions you'll never see where it's going. Director and star Tommy Lee Jones adapts a Glendon Swarthout novel about a woman… Read More

Labor Day review

February 12, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason ReitmanWritten by Reitman based on the novel by Joyce MaynardWow, this is a tough one to get my head around. Why would Reitman, director of edgy, hip dramedies Young Adult, Up In The Air and Juno, tackle this kind of material? This is a total Hallmark/Lifetime TV movie, described in at least one… Read More

Young Adult review

December 21, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Jason ReitmanWritten by Diablo CodyIn a high school reunion movie (it's a genre, you know) Mavis Gary would be the antagonist, the lady who was the mean girl as a teen and is still a bitch 20 years later—even though she's by many societal standards a success. The closest we've seen to her… Read More