Tag: Geraldine Viswanathan

  • Thunderbolts* what a lark!

    Thunderbolts* what a lark!

    Thunderbolts* brings together a team of oddball and outcast Marvel superheroes and names them after a kid’s losing soccer team. I was only there for Florence Pugh, but the film turned out to be a lot of fun.

  • You’re Cordially Invited review: a wedding comedy

    You’re Cordially Invited review: a wedding comedy

    You’re Cordially Invited stars Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell in a too long comedy about two weddings that were accidentally booked in the same place at the same time.

  • Drive-Away Dolls: totally inappropriate

    Drive-Away Dolls: totally inappropriate

    Drive-Away Dolls is a raunchy, ridiculous road trip movie from director Ethan Coen. The name Coen doesn’t always inspire me to want to watch something, but this pulpy masterpiece features women in the lead roles so I felt compelled to take a look.

  • Blockers, farcical parents and grounded kids

    Blockers, farcical parents and grounded kids

    Blockers is several years old and finally hit the streamers, which means I watched it. This film is low brow comedy, raunchy, with physical gags and ridiculous situations. In other words, it’s funny. It’s about 3 over-protective parents who try to block their daughters from having sex on prom night.

  • Cat Person, oddball attempt at feminism

    Cat Person, oddball attempt at feminism

    Cat Person is a fantastical elaboration on the idea that women are afraid of men while men can’t bear to be rejected by women. A college sophomore gets involved with an older man. She thinks she’s an enlightened feminist while she suspects him of every kind of toxic masculinity.

  • 7 Days, an early COVID lockdown story

    7 Days, an early COVID lockdown story

    7 Days from the Duplass Brothers is about two people on a first date who get stuck together when the first COVID lockdown hits. It was funny and charming and often realistic feeling. It had all the quirkiness you associate with the Duplass brothers.

  • Review: Hala

    Review: Hala

    Hala is a coming of age story about a Pakistani-American girl in a Chicago high school. It’s a different perspective (with a powerful female gaze) on the usual coming of age story. Hala was written and directed by Minhal Baig. The film is currently streaming on Apple TV+.