Tag: Laura Dern

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Review – The totality of it all

  

  There’s a whole lotta movie in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It doesn’t all work, it can feel muddled and disparate at times, the wild variety of tones that it tries to capture don’t quite settle into a script that feels far more invested in being funny.

  E Warren

  December 15, 2017

  Film, Review, Uncategorized

  Action, Adam Driver, Andy Serkis, Carrie Fisher, Cinema, Daisy Ridley, Disney, Domhnall Gleeson, Film, Films, Four Stars, Gwendoline Christie, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, Lucasfilm, Lupita Nyong’o, Mark Hamill, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Oscar Isaac, Review, Rian Johnson, Science Fiction, Star Wars, The Last Jedi

• Certain Women: A film with resolve

  

  If Certain Women feels empty it is almost certainly by design. What better way to ring in Women’s History month than with this collection of stories regarding the diminishing effect the patriarchy has in the modern age? Kelly Reichardt is one of modern cinema’s leading formalists, exploring the place of women in society within her…

  E Warren

  March 8, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Cinema, Drama, Feminism, Film, Four Star, Kelly Reichardt, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Michelle Williams, Movie, Movies, Review

• The Founder: McDonalds The Great

  

  The Founder is a capitalist nightmare. I mean, the events of the film are certainly, but the film could have been about it without actually being it. The film wants us to take some certain things for granted. That McDonalds is right, that McDonalds is a good, and that McDonalds was inevitable. Don’t see that…

  E Warren

  February 21, 2017

  Film, Review

  Cinema, Film, John Lee Hancock, Laura Dern, McDonalds, Michael Keaton, Movie, Nick Offerman, Review, The Founder