Bombshell (2019)
“News is like a ship. You take your hands off the wheel and it pulls hard to the left.” Bombshell is a precise film. The blocking has been staunchly rehearsed, […]
Tag Archives: Kate McKinnon
Yesterday (2019)
“I’m trying to live outside the conventional concept of time.” For all of the messiness and the massive lapses in logic that occur early and often and throughout the entirety […]
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
“Women can be terrorists too.” Comedy is a hard genre to find any sort of uniform, easily tailored success within, and The Spy Who Dumped Me shows that a bloated belly […]
Ferdinand (2017)
“Where do you think the word bull comes from? It ain’t from chicken.” In a year that’s featured no animated film I’ve absolutely loved – Lego Batman was probably my favorite, followed […]
Rough Night (2017)
“This is going to be the biggest weekend of our lives.” The conceit is simple: remove the dark parody of 1998’s macabre Very Bad Things but maintain a similar plot, then […]
Office Christmas Party (2016)
“Can this thing handle snow?” In storytelling, a hamartia is a fatal flaw exemplified by a single character. This is typically greed, jealousy, disdain. It’s a telling reflection of a […]
Masterminds (2016)
“All I ever really wanted was adventure.” Masterminds approaches comedy in a grounded, hunched over position, fumbling around for a light switch in the dark and mining for a toilet seat […]
Ghostbusters (2016)
“It’s really easy to sit there and be a naysayer when you don’t actually do anything.” Try to imagine a world without the 1984 film and I think this 2016 […]
Finding Dory (2016)
“The best things happen by chance.” Finding Dory is the identical twin to Finding Nemo, the film equivalent of the Parent Trap sisters. While inherently different in personality, they’re both incredibly similar in most respects, at […]
