Jacob Oller

1 week ago | avclub.com | Jacob Oller

Primer is The A.V. Club‘s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. The rare modern American auteur to have created and maintained a filmmaking style so recognizable that it’s mimicked, mocked, and admired in equal measure, Wes Anderson has only doubled down on his idiosyncrasies as he’s developed as a director.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jacob Oller

Primer is The A.V. Club‘s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. The rare modern American auteur to have created and maintained a filmmaking style so recognizable that it’s mimicked, mocked, and admired in equal measure, Wes Anderson has only doubled down on his idiosyncrasies as he’s developed as a director.

2 weeks ago | avclub.com | Jacob Oller

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2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jacob Oller

The Studio‘s Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston) swaggers into the first episode of the Apple TV+ series like a New Hollywood mover and shaker, a Robert Evans caricature defined by his ’70s bravado and turtleneck-with-suit swinger style. The CEO passes the studio head torch to Seth Rogen’s Matt Remick, who embodies yet constantly fails to live up to the idealized “artists first” mentality that defines that mythologized era in filmmaking.

2 weeks ago | avclub.com | Jacob Oller

This minor pivot in the script (written by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes) contributes to the feeling that Lilo & Stitch is a made-for-TV movie aimed at the slightly older Disney crowd. Less from the perspective of Lilo, an oddball outcast who’s found a pal to match her freak, the film worries about health insurance. This dry lifelessness pervades the beachy slog.