Showing posts with label Andrea Riseborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrea Riseborough. Show all posts

Thursday, November 20, 2014

I'm unexpectedly virtuous


BIRDMAN

Birdman is very close to the best movie of the year, and it is almost without a doubt the hardest.

2014
Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Written by Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
With Michael Keaton (Riggan Thomson), Edward Norton (Mike Shiner), Naomi Watts (Lesley), Zach Galifianakis (Jake), Andrea Riseborough (Laura), Amy Ryan (Sylvia), and Emma Stone (Sam)

Spoiler alert: mild

Friday, August 9, 2013

Everybody wants to [destroy] the world, part 1



OBLIVION


Seeing Oblivion for the first time is a lot like seeing a great movie for the second time. 

2013
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
Written by Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt, and Joseph Kosinski
With Tom Cruise (Jack Harper), Andrea Riseborough (Victoria), Olga Kurylenko (Julia Rusakova), Melissa Leo (Sally), Morgan Freeman (Beech), Nicolaj Coster-Waldau (some useless character who got all of Zoe Bell's lines), Zoe Bell (criminally wasted)

Spoiler alert: severe