Tag: michaeldowse

Kumail Nanjiani is either the luckiest or unluckiest Uber driver ever. A couple of years after his breakout semi-autobiographical feature The Big Sick, in which Nanjiani plays a stand-up comedian moonlighting as an Uber driver who just so happens to...

Based on its bold title, you would be forgiven for thinking The Grand Seduction, a new comedy starring stalwart actor Brendan Gleeson, is an epic and complex drama comedy. It is in fact quite the opposite; a simmering small-town affair,...

When I called Michael Dowse for our interview, I tried hard not to sound like a crazy person. I admit that I've been a bit vocal about his films on Twitter, and believe (without any sarcasm or irony) that...

Romantic comedies that discredit the integrity of a main character lose me entirely. Near the beginning of the new romantic comedy What If (titled The F Word in other territories), directed by Michael Dowse (Goon), the character played by Daniel...

Ah, the 20-something romantic comedy. A genre usually filled with twee Emo-soundtrack tunes, magical or manic pixie dreamgirls, and the shuffling boys who win their love through good heartedness. Some are decent, some utterly wretched, but most follow a pretty...

The Toronto Film Critics Association blessed Paul Thomas Anderson's film The Master with four awards this year. And three very different Canadian films have the chance to win the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award: Bestiaire, directed by Denis Côté; Goon, directed...

Hey, like, remember the eighties? Welcome to the latest in the current wave of 1980s nostalgia films. This one, the pointlessly titled "Take Me Home Tonight" (the Eddie Money song of the same name is never heard, despite a wall-to-wall...

My colleague William Goss and I had a slight disagreement on the virtually worthless Take Me Home Tonight: I thought it was a pathetic Dazed and Confused wannabe that was edited at random by a stupid monkey in a dark...

Now that we're a couple decades past the 80s I find I am a touch more nostalgic for them than I was, say, ten years ago. I'm only realizing that these last few years that they were far more formative...

So. Why the hell am I writing about a 1980's set romantic comedy starring Topher Grace and Anna Faris here in ScreenAnarchy? Simple. Because Take Me Home Tonight happens to be directed by Michael Dowse, the man behind the camera...