This raucous junk foodie fantasy stirs ‘American Pie,’ ‘Toy Story,’ ‘Logan’s Run,’ and every torture porn horror of the last decade into a raunchy paean to hedonism.
Tag: Kristen Wiig
Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig are ‘The Skeleton Twins’ on Amazon Prime Video and Hulu
The Skeleton Twins (2014) stars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as estranged siblings who are brought together after the failed suicide of one interrupts the attempted suicide of the other. This is a damaged family and Maggie (Wiig) and Milo (Hader) are self-destructive in their depression, almost willfully making choices doomed to ruin whatever equilibrium […]
‘The Martian’ on Blu-ray and DVD
The Martian (2015), winner of two Golden Globe Awards and nominated for seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Actor for Matt Damon), is the rare science fiction drama that is actually built on applied physics and engineering and organic chemistry and where survival depends on creative problem solving and teamwork across millions of miles. […]
Who ya gonna call? ‘Ghostbusters 2016’ on VOD
Ghostbusters (2016), the reboot / remake / revival of the 1984 frat boy comedy starring Bill Murray as a sardonic con man in academia turned nuclear powered paranormal investigator, was the most controversial film of the year if you measure such things by Facebook rants and Twitter burns from arrested adolescents. Why? Because it stars […]