Tag: tinafey

Review: SOUL, What Everybody Wants

Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey star in the latest animated film from Pixar, directed by Pete Docter, now streaming exclusively on Disney +.

The Many Faces Of Alfred Molina

This week sees the North American premiere of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, co-directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, and starring Tina Fey as a journalist in Afghanistan. In his review, Peter Martin says the film is "difficult to categorize yet...

Review: WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Throws A Wrench Into Military Expectations

Like its title, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot doesn't make much sense at first. Employing a common narrative device, the movie begins during a rowdy dance party in Afghanistan in 2006. As bombs explode outside, the party-goers reveal themselves to be hard-working...

Watch Now: Tina Fey Goofs It Up In WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Trailer

Too soon? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a comedy about news reporting in the Middle East among suicide bombers and hijabs is coming our way on March 4, 2016, and we've got the trailer below. In the poster, you may recognize that the...

Review: LIVE FROM NEW YORK! Chronicles SNL... Again

Saturday Night Live doesn't exactly have a stellar track record when it comes to the big screen. Unfortunately, the new SNL retrospective Live from New York! Is only a marginal improvement to the average. There's the old saying, "comedy is...

Review: MONKEY KINGDOM Doesn't Monkey With Formula

"Here we come... Walking down the street..." Yes, this film actually opens with the old Monkees TV show theme. It plays over a satisfying opening montage of monkeys in the jungle doing stupid things and getting laughs. It's lazy, but it...

Now Streaming: UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT, Do Sit-Coms Dream Of Binge-Watching?

Situation comedies have been a mainstay of broadcast networks in the U.S. since the early 1950s, so it makes perfect sense that streaming services would want to feature such tried-and-true fare in their own programming schemes, such as Unbreakable Kimmy...

AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks MUPPETS, DIVERGENT And Von Trier's NYMPHOMANIAC

Strange mix this week of YA heroines, puppeteered sequels, and the long awaited work from Lars Von Trier.Video embedded below...

Interview: ScreenAnarchy Talks To Miss Piggy About MUPPETS MOST WANTED

It's not every day that one gets to talk to a genuine legend. With her tousled blonde hair, un-rhinoplasticized nose and proclivity for wearing jewels atop her white gloved hands, Miss Piggy cuts quite the swath.In town to promote her...

Review: MUPPETS MOST WANTED, A Sequel That Delivers What Fans Want

It was halfway through a press conference this week that someone asked the talent propped up at the front of the assembled media about the inconsistencies that one can find between the various tales that have served as the eight...

MUPPETS MOST WANTED Teaser Tweaks Twitter Thing

Lately, studios have been quoting tweets in movie ads, two examples being a recent TV campaign for Grudge Match, which touted positive snippets from moviegoers (and none from critics), and a print ad in the New York Times for Inside...

It's Not Easy Being Mean In First Trailer For MUPPETS MOST WANTED

There's a frog on the loose and it's not the one you think. Yup, The Muppets are back for more with the first trailer of Muppets Most Wanted and it's loaded up with lots of frog, a bit of pig,...

MUPPETS MOST WANTED Teaser And Images: It's A Sequel! With Ricky Gervais! And Dancing!

For all the Muppet lovers in the world, the wait until the next film in the venerable franchise ends on March 21, 2014, is interminable. To make the endless days pass a little more quickly, a teaser trailer and several...

AnarchyVision: Talking SPRING BREAKERS, ADMISSION, and OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN

This week saw a bunch of films worth talking about, including what for me is the first non-awful Harmony Korine film Spring Breakers, the innocuous and thus disappointing Admission, and the best goddamn movie of the weekend, Olympus Has Fallen...

Review: ADMISSION Allows Entry to An Agreeable, If Shallow, Experience

The latest film from director Paul Weitz sits comfortably alongside his earlier comic and ultimately melodramatic explorations of 30-something adult anxieties about parenthood, mid-career crises, and personal growth. As he himself grows older, though, Weitz's indulgence in soapy sentimentality is...

First Look At THE MUPPETS ... AGAIN!

There's no sign of Ricky Gervais [Check that, a shot featuring Gervais has also turned up. See below.] or any of the other human players but Entertainment Weekly has the first shot from the upcoming The Muppets ... Again and...