Tag Archives: Patton Oswalt

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

The Circle review — Black Mirror for Dummies

May 3, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by James Ponsoldt | Written by Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers, from Eggers' novel | 110 min Mae (Emma Watson) is an American Girl living somewhere in America... probably California. She drives a crappy car, has a crappy job, but a cute boy, Mercer (Ellar Coltrane, of Boyhood), who builds deer antler chandeliers in his… Read More

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World review

October 9, 2012 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Lorene ScafariaThis is just out on DVD, a film I missed this summer in the din of the blockbuster season.It's Scafaria's first feature, having written the delightful Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, one of the few teen comedies of recent years to come anywhere near the quality of the John Hughes… 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