Tag: Steve Carell

• Vice Review — Politics as unusual

  

  Vice ends on a scene where we flash back to a focus group earlier seen determining that ‘climate change’ were a less credible threat than ‘global warming’. In it a liberal and a conservative start getting into an argument over the film’s credibility as a factual document. Off to the side, a young woman already…

  E Warren

  January 28, 2019

  Film, Review

  Adam McKay, Amy Adams, Biopic, Christian Bale, Cinema, Film, Films, Jesse Plemons, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell, Two Stars, Vice

• Welcome to Marwen Review — Toy Story

  

  Bob Zemeckis is too straight to make a movie about a homophobic hate crime.

  E Warren

  January 9, 2019

  Film, Review

  Cinema, Eiza González, Film, Films, Gwendoline Christie, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Mann, Marwencol, Merritt Wever, Movie, Movies, One Star, Opinion, Review, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Carell, Welcome to Marwen

• Battle of the Sexes Review – American independents

  

  I’ve been saying a lot recently that the past few months have been a context killer for movies, but then that’s always a more extreme version of what I been saying ever since Donny got elected. All of a sudden our good intentions count for nothing because they’re being projected into a reality where they…

  E Warren

  December 3, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Andrea Riseborough, Battle of the Sexes, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Emma Stone, Film, Films, Fox Searchlight, Jonathan Dayton, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Steve Carell, Two Stars, Valerie Faris

• Despicable Me 3 Review – Stealth minions

  

  This is the first Despicable Me film to launch post Minions.

  E Warren

  July 11, 2017

  Film, Review

  Animation, Cinema, Despicable Me 3, Family, Film, Films, Illumination, Kristen Wiig, Kyle Balda, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Pierre Coffin, Review, Steve Carell, Two Star, Universal