Review – No, It’s Not By Wes Anderson (“See How They Run”)

Imagine this: a comedy/murder mystery (like Knives Out) but set in a 50’s posh British theater with some questionable detectives trying to figure out who the killer is. And if it looks suspiciously like a Wes Anderson film, that’s because it does. In London’s famous West End, they’re showing Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, a play…

Review – Much Ado About Anderson (“The French Dispatch”)

There is only one Wes Anderson and nobody writes or directs a movie like him. His odd, symmetrical, and weirdly looking film style is unlike anybody else’s in Hollywood. Even his animated films (Isle of Dogs, The Fantastic Mr. Fox) are visually stunning. So, let’s dig in, shall we?  An acquired taste, Anderson’s films are…

Review – Don’t Steal the Towels (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”)

To quote Hunter S. Thompson, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro”, and baby, there’s no one making weirder films today than writer/director Wes Anderson. An easy successor to master director Stanley Kubrick, this bizarre and genuinely odd grandiose film is filled with delicious cinematic eye-candy in direction and set/production design. And the…