Archive for the Tag 'Kristen Wiig'

WHIP IT – Reviewed by Noah

Finally a film for that rare young girl who doesn’t feel the world understands her. Whip It is the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, starring Juno’s Ellen Page as Bliss, a young girl in a small Texas town who feels the world doesn’t understand her. On a trip to Austin, Bliss discovers that her life’s [...]

EXTRACT – Reviewed by Noah

Extract, the new comedy from Office Space director and Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge, stars Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig and Ben Affleck, among others. Bateman plays Joel, the owner of a company that produces cooking extracts. Unhappy with his life, as most successful, middle aged white guys are, Joel and his friend [...]

ADVENTURELAND – Reviewed by David

Adventureland was written and directed by Greg Mottola, he who helmed the much-beloved Superbad, and I suspect people will want to see it because of that connection. But it’s not a broad and raunchy laughfest. Rather, it’s a modest, semi-autobiographical–albeit R-rated–comedy/drama about one of those transformative summers in a young person’s life.
In this case the [...]