I’ve been stewing over my review of Where the Wild Things Are for a full seven days now. Mostly I’m baffled at how much I enjoyed it, and how well it was done. The book, I’m told, was one of my favorites growing up. Still, I felt no allegiance to the film, and when everyone [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Dave Eggers'
Where the Wild Things Are
November 2nd, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: Catherine Keener · Catherine O'Hara · Dave Eggers · Forest Whitaker · James Gandolfini · Lance Acord · Lauren Ambrose · Maurice · Max Records · Paul Dano · Spike Jonze · Where the Wild Things
Away We Go
June 27th, 2009 3 Comments
Sam Mendes is, for me, one of the most interesting directors putting out films right now. He’s definitely had his misses. Jarhead was uneven and overly trite in it’s portrayal of affected American soldiers in Iraq, The Road to Perdition was a solid, good film, but vastly overrated. But he, at the very least, has [...]
Tags: Allison Janney · Away We Go · Catherine O'Hara · Chris Messina · Dave Eggers · Jeff Daniels · Jim Gaffigan · John Krazinski · Maya Rudolph · Melanie Lynskey · Sam Mendes · Vendela Vida
