Tag: Greta Gerwig

• Isle of Dogs Review – Say it three times fast

  

  It seems like through Wes Anderson’s filmography, while his style has moved towards the realm of extreme formalism, the stories he employs it to tell are spacing out into these maximalist folds. His worlds contain seemingly boundless possibilities, unconcerned by form or structure the characters bounce from event to event as strung along by some…

  E Warren

  April 3, 2018

  Film, Review

  Akira Ito, Akira Takayama, Animation, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, Cinema, Comedy, Edward Norton, F. Murray Abraham, Film, Films, Fox Searchlight, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Harvey Keitel, Indian Paintbrush, Isle of Dogs, Jeff Goldblum, Koyu Rankin, Kunichi Nomura, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Scarlett Johansson, Three Stars, Tilda Swinton, Wes Anderson, Yoko Ono

• Lady Bird Review: Everything I couldn’t be

  

  There’s mess in the life of Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson. Nothing quite adds up for her in the way it’s supposed to, or maybe she’s just getting the sums wrong. It’s telling in a way that the character is bad at maths and you ever really find out what she’s good at. Aside from making…

  E Warren

  March 7, 2018

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  A24, Beanie Feldstein, Cinema, Comedy, Film, Films, Five Stars, Focus Features, Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Saoirse Ronan, Tracy Letts, Universal Pictures

• 20th Century Women: Hanging With the Gals

  

  At 20th Century Women’s best moments it’s got this real chill hangout movie vibe. A loose, easygoing slide that puts the audience into the headspace that Santa Barbara probably deserves. Work probably does get done there but right now it feels like a million miles away. The punk scene’s still alive, Reagan is not yet…

  E Warren

  February 23, 2017

  Film, Review

  20th Century Women, Annette Bening, Cinema, Elle Fanning, Feminism, Film, Greta Gerwig, Mike Mills, Movie, Review