Showing posts with label Wallace Shawn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wallace Shawn. Show all posts

Monday, May 12, 2014

The Double





In Richard Ayoade's new stunt of a movie, "The Double," Jesse Eisenberg plays Simon James, a mouse of a man employed in data entry in a dimly lit, windowless, seemingly subterranean sea of cubicles overseen by fast-talking Mr. Papadopoulos (Wallace Shawn), a conceit that owes as much to Jeunet and Caro as to Dostoevsky.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner



The documentarian Cindy Kleine turns the camera on her husband for the scattershot biopic "Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner."

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Admission





Some television celebrities, no matter how talented, simply lack the stature to fit the big screen. Upon the basis of 2010's "Date Night" and her new picture "Admission," I'm afraid Tina Fey falls into the category. I know, there are those who believe she can do no wrong, but she looks undersized up there in a way that only serves to underline the sitcom-y, watch-'em-at-home production values and quality of these movies.