Love, Rosie – Review Olivia Luder October 29, 2014 Reviews Lily Collins and her perfect eyebrows are delightful in this time-spanning rom-com, but sadly they aren't enough to save Love, Rosie from descending into overwrought schmaltz. The film follows childhood...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Review Olivia Luder October 20, 2014 Reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is no Lego Movie. This adaptation of the classic kid's cartoon doesn't even try to come up with anything new; the reveal of the villain is half-hearted at best and, frankly, when...
Gone Girl – Review Olivia Luder October 1, 2014 Reviews It's a tired debate but Gone Girl begs the question: is a faithful adaptation the best adaptation? Gillian Flynn's novel is the mystery du jour, a missing person’s case fit for a pessimistic...
A Love Letter To… The Addams Family Values Olivia Luder September 29, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Kicking off with Fester standing on top of the ghastly family home, howling at the moon, followed swiftly by Morticia’s classic 'Gomez, marvelous news: I’m going to have a baby. Right now', The Addams...
Rewinding Time: The Rise of the Small Screen Olivia Luder September 14, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion Oh 21st Century – we all had such high hopes. Diablo Cody did great work for the quirky gal in all of us, winning an Oscar for Juno in 2007, Julie Delpy has been a fierce whirlwind of creativity since...
Rewinding Time: Second Wave Feminism Hits Hollywood Olivia Luder August 28, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features The last time we paused to recount the efforts of one of Hollywood’s most unsung tribes – that of the women screenwriter – we stopped just as silent cinema led into the talkies and a new era arrived in...
Rewinding Time: Women Screenwriters of the Silent Era Olivia Luder August 1, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features “It’s the writer’s job to get screwed. Writers are the women of the movie business” – Nora Ephron, 1993 Writers have always received the short end of the movie making stick, going unnoticed as...
A Love Letter To… Speed Olivia Luder June 19, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia 6 Comments Pop quiz, hot shot: is Speed the best action film of the nineties? Hint: the answer is not ‘Shoot the hostage.’ This is a film so high-concept that its title is able to sum up the plot in one word:...
Stories from the Set: The Blues Brothers Olivia Luder May 23, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses. Jake: Hit it. Jake and Elwood were on a mission from God but when it came...
Best Films Never Made #16: Tim Burton’s Superman Lives Olivia Luder May 8, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 3 Comments The last time there was a decent onscreen incarnation of the Last Son of Krypton, the year was 1980 and Christopher Reeve landed Hollywood's biggest deus ex machina on Lois Lane in the form of a mind-wipe...
