Wild Things
Filmmaker John McNaughton established himself with the highly influential film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1986) which he co-wrote and directed. Over the course of his career McNaughton proved… Read more »
Tag: Bill Murray
Fantastic Mr. Fox
From Bottle Rocket (1996) to The Darjeeling Limited (2007), filmmaker Wes Anderson was moving his aesthetic closer and closer to animation. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is the first time that… Read more »
Lost In Translation
How perfect is it that a film which so defined a generation should open with a shot of Scarlett Johansson’s buttocks? Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation (2003) is one of… Read more »
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Sony Pictures is apparently pretty desperate to make a Ghostbusters revival happen. Audiences, in a fervor of sexism and hatred, killed the Paul Feig reboot of 2016 forcing Sony Pictures… Read more »
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s latest feature, The French Dispatch (2021), is an anthology modeled on an issue of fictional magazine (whose name is shared with the film’s title) that itself is modeled… Read more »
Quick Change
“The bank robbery was easy, getting out of New York was a nightmare”, so says the tag line for Bill Murray and Howard Franklin’s Quick Change (1990). Franklin and Murray’s… Read more »
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s been years since Wes Anderson transcended the cult status of his earlier films. Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) offered a highly stylized, if not completely unreal, suggestion of what was… Read more »
What About Bob?
I have written about the influence of Frank Tashlin before, but in 1990 his influence couldn’t have been more heavily felt than in the films What About Bob? and Clifford… Read more »
The Jungle Book
This review was first published during the initial release of this film. I saw The Jungle Book with my mother and brother about a week and a half after my… Read more »
