by
Julien Faddoul
The Big
Short **
The men who
made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Obnoxious
but fascinating and admirable hyperlink comedy on humanity’s inherent disregard
for what is difficult to decipher. But the writing, directing and acting is all
irritatingly affected to the point innocuousness, with only one performance
coming off sincerely.
d – Adam McKay
w – Charles
Randolph, Adam McKay (Based on the Book
by Michael Lewis)
ph – Barry Ackroyd
pd – Clayton Hartley
m – Nicholas
Britell
ed – Hank
Corwin
cos – Susan
Matheson
p – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Arnon Milchan,
Brad Pitt
Cast: Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve
Carell, Brad Pitt, Finn Wittrock, Melissa Leo, Marisa Tomei, Max
Greenfield, Tracy Letts, Billy Magnussen, Rafe Spall, Hamish Linklater, Byron
Mann, Al Sapienza, Jeremy Strong, Adepero Oduye
Sisters
Two
disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before
their parents sell their family home.
Crass and
coarse comedy, relying for laughs on uninspired slapstick and humiliation of
the female form.
d – Jason Moore
w – Paula
Pell
ph – Barry Peterson
pd – Richard Hoover
m – Christophe
Beck
ed – Lee
Haxall
cos – Susan
Lyall
p – Tina Fey, Jay Roach
Cast: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, John Leguizamo, Ike
Barinholtz, Maya Rudolph, Madison Davenport, Greta Lee, James Brolin, John Cena,
Rachel Dratch, Heather Matarazzo, Dan Byrd, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan,
Adrian Martinez, Dianne Wiest, Santino Fontana, Brian d'Arcy James
The Peanuts
Movie **
Snoopy
embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to
pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic
quest back home to win the love of his life.
A
computer-animated adaptation that offers almost nothing new, with literal
plot-threads taken directly from previous incarnations. But as a tribute, it is
well wrought, warm and affectionate.
d – Steve Martino
w – Bryan
Schulz, Craig Schulz, Cornelius Uliano
(Based on the Comic Stirp by Charles Schulz)
ad – Nash Dunnigan
m – Christophe
Beck
ed – Randy
Trager
p – Paul Feig, Bryan Schulz, Craig Schulz,
Michael J. Travers, Cornelius Uliano
Cast: Noah Schnapp, Bill Melendez, Venus
Schultheis, Hadley Belle Miller, Madisyn Shipman, Francesca Capaldi, Noah
Johnston, Alexander Garfin, Mariel Sheets, A.J. Tecce, Rebecca Bloom, Anastasia
Bredikhina, William Wunsch
Stonewall
A young man
in New York gets caught up in the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
A disaster:
Totally incoherent in its portrayal of the event and completely banal in its
implementation of grandeur and self-importance. Emmerich needs to find something better to do, like golf or something.
d – Roland Emmerich
w – Jon Robin Baitz
ph – Markus Förderer
pd – Michele Laliberte
m – Rob Simonsen
ed – Adam Wolfe
cos – Simonetta Mariano
p – Roland
Emmerich, Carsten H.W. Lorenz, Marc
Frydman, Michael Fossat
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Jonathan
Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman, Caleb Landry Jones, Karl Glusman, Vlademir Alexis,
Alexandre Nachi, Joey King, Matt Craven, Atticus Mitchell, David Cubitt, Mark
Camacho, Andrea Frankle, Kwasi Songui, Joanne Vannicola, Wilson Gonzalez
Ochsenknecht
Entertainment *
En route to
meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a
broken, middle-aged comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave Desert.
A typically
acidic “comedy” of its director with unpleasant characters and situations. I still
don’t feel he wants to say anything worthy of connotation.
d – Rick Alverson
w – Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington, Tim
Heidecker
ph – Lorenzo Hagerman
pd – Bart Marum
m – Robert Donne
ed – Rick Alverson, Michael Taylor
cos – Elizabeth Warn
p – Rick Alverson, Brooke Bernard, Patrick
Hibler, Alex Lipschultz, Ryan Lough, George Rush, Ryan Zacarias
Cast: Gregg Turkington, Tye Sheridan, John C.
Reilly, Lotte Verbeek, Dean Stockwell, Amy Seimetz, Tim Heidecker, Kalia
Prescott, Tonantzin Carmelo
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