Tag Archives: Steve Carrell

Asteroid City review — Wes Anderson’s boxes in boxes

June 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson and Roman Coppola | 105 min | ▲▲▲△△ If you go back to my review of Anderson Feature #10, The French Dispatch, you'll see it left me a little confused. I appreciated its very Andersonian qualities — art directed within an inch of its life, a disregard… Read More

Café Society review — Woody in a Wistful Mood

July 28, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Woody Allen | 96 min | Amazon Prime |▲▲▲△△ "Until, one day out hunting, she mistook him for a deer." That line's got great bite, maybe the best in the whole picture, a fleeting moment of Woody Allen's wit at its sharpest—though, granted, some context will help with getting the laugh if… 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

Atlantic Film Festival 2014: Day Six, with Muppets, teen movies, and Steve Carell

September 17, 2014 flawintheiris

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story was programmed twice at this year's AFF. I saw the second screening on Tuesday morning as part of the Viewfinders program. Interestingly, the audience was almost entirely adults, some with touches of silver in their hair. Is this evidence that we are, in fact, in the Age… Read More