A Love Letter To… The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Louise Burrell November 20, 2019 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Noah Baumbach makes his return to Netflix on 6th December with the highly-anticipated Marriage Story, currently in select UK cinemas and starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a married couple who are...
Brad’s Status – Review Rachel Brook January 1, 2018 Reviews With Mike White’s Brad’s Status, a serious Ben Stiller plays a character like those he’s embodied in his work with Noah Baumbach. Brad is familiar – another version of the antiheroes in Greenberg and...
The Meyerowitz Stories – Review Louise Burrell October 13, 2017 Reviews If The Squid and the Whale and The Royal Tenenbaums had a baby, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) would be it. The ultimate dysfunctional family with a wily and irrepressible patriarch at the helm may...
Scene Stealers: Will Ferrell in Zoolander Tom Bond February 11, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers You know, there's more to life than being really, really ridiculously good-looking. Sometimes you need a great fashion sense as well. Ben Stiller may dominate Zoolander as writer, director and idiotic lead,...
Zoolander 2 – Review Tom Bond February 10, 2016 Reviews Zoolander 2 boasts a plot far sillier than its predecessor – no mean feat, but very much a good thing – and is far more interested in drama and action. These latter elements are less successful, as...
While We’re Young – Review Rachel Brook April 3, 2015 Reviews While We’re Young is a natural progression from Baumbach’s Frances Ha, yet it breaks new ground by using older protagonists to provide a fresh perspective on twentysomething New Yorkers. Meanwhile, it...
A Love Letter To… Zoolander Conor Morgan February 20, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia In Zoolander, Ben Stiller’s 2001 send-up of the fashion industry, the shadowy controlling figures of the trade task leading designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell) with finding a suitable candidate to assassinate the...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – Review David Brake December 16, 2013 Reviews Dreamers can live a solitary existence, their greatest works performing to an audience of one. Walter Mitty attempts to break that notion through expensive effects and a can-do attitude. Regrettably, the...