Showing posts with label keira knightley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label keira knightley. Show all posts

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Celebrating 20 Years of People Making Fun of That One Scene from 'Love Actually'

You know the scene. I wrote about the backlash to Love Actually's big romantic gesture over at Cracked.

Thursday, March 23, 2023

The Grierson & Leitch Podcast: 'Boston Strangler' and 'The Last Days of Disco'


Poor Shazam! Fury of the Gods: We review the film on the podcast, as well as Boston Strangler. Then, in our Reboot segment, we go back to 1998 and The Last Days of Disco. Everybody dance, and check out the episode down below.

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Toronto 2021: 'Silent Night' Review


In Silent Night, Keira Knightley gathers a group of friends to get together for Christmas ... and also the end of the world. This movie is a nervy mixture of holiday film and post-apocalyptic drama, and it doesn't quite mix. My review is here.

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Sundance 2019: 'Official Secrets' Review


Between movies like Spotlight and The Post, we've become accustomed to true-life dramas like Official Secrets. This Gavin Hood film still works pretty darn well, though, starring Keira Knightley as whistleblower trying to keep the U.K. and U.S. from invading Iraq in 2003. You can read my review here.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Sundance 2018: 'Colette' Review


Director Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice) makes his first film since the death of his partner Richard Glatzer with Colette, a biopic about French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Keira Knightley plays Colette in this likeable, sexy film. My review is live over at Screen International.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Sundance 2014: 'Laggies' Review


A big Lynn Shelton fan, I've wanted her to break through in a major way after Humpday and Your Sister's Sister. I was less disappointed by her follow-up film, Touchy Feely, than others were, but her latest, Laggies, is the one where I start to lose hope. More polished and tightly scripted than her earlier, better films, it stars Keira Knightley as a woman who refuses to grow up -- and decides to befriend a teen girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) who thinks she's super-cool. It's a cute, slight idea, but I wanted more. Here's my review.