Tag: Brick
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This 2010 Comedy Turned Joseph Gordon-Levitt Into a Metal Mary Poppins
The journey of transitioning from a breakout child star to a “serious” actor is never an easy one. Some “formerly adorable” younger performers have trouble transitioning into the more mature, serious roles, as they must prove themselves in a completely new and different style of acting. The challenge is even greater for young actors that…
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Comedy? Mystery? The Editing Ensures That ‘Poker Face’ Is Both
Ever since his debut feature “Brick,” writer-director Rian Johnson has been a reliable creator of intricately structured thrillers that skillfully weave plot, theme, and character into perfectly calibrated pieces of smart and satisfying entertainment. Johnson’s Peacock show “Poker Face,” a mystery series that follows eccentric fugitive Charlie (Natasha Lyonne) as she solves crimes using a…
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All The Movie References In Poker Face Episode 9
This article contains spoilers for “Poker Face.”The penultimate episode of “Poker Face” season 1, “Escape From S*** Mountain,” saw our favorite lie-detector Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) avenge three murders and narrowly escape an early grave herself.This episode is also the third and final episode that creator Rian Johnson personally directed this season. Johnson wears his…
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Poker Face: Everything We Know About the Rian Johnson Series
One of the most recognized filmmakers working today, Rian Johnson is as popular as he is polarizing. Ranging from more minor indie hits like Brick (2005) to mid-budget high-concept science fiction films like Looper (2012) and all the way to the colossal budget spectacle of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Johnson’s work is adored…
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Rian Johnson Receives ‘Visionary’ Director at Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards
It’s rare for sequels to make a big splash on the awards circuit; only two have ever won best picture – “The Godfather II” and “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” But director Rian Johnson’s star-studded feature “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is also proving to be an exception, with the 48-year-old…
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Knives Out 2 Review: Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion Is His Greatest Mystery Yet
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is all about disruptors. As a character states in the film, disrupters are those who break from the norm, those who take something people are already growing tired of, and prepare the world for the next better step. There are few greater disrupters working in modern cinema than Rian…
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Rian Johnson’s Production Company Launches New Label, Will Produce Low-Budget Films From New Directors
T-Street, the production company founded by Knives Out and Brick director Rian Johnson and his longtime producer Ram Bergman, is expanding its reach. Their production banner is teaming up with MRC Films, the indie studio that developed and produced movies like Knives Out, Baby Driver, Ted, and The Adjustment Bureau, to launch a new untitled…
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Selah and the Spades review – stylish leader of the pack
This arresting debut about a high-school ‘queen bee’ nurturing her successor-in-crime heralds a singular new talent in director Tayarisha PoeWriter-director Tayarisha Poe has wryly described her debut feature (which played to enthusiastic responses at Sundance last year) as “Clueless meets The Godfather”. Set amid the five warring factions of an elite east coast Us boarding…
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Knives Out review – a deliciously entertaining whodunnit
Rian Johnson’s homage to Agatha Christie delivers laughs, twists and thrills with aplombDescribing his thrillingly playful attitude toward genre cinema, writer/director Rian Johnson once told me that he loved the “slightly meta conversation it opens between you and the viewer” – the way that a shared set of ground rules can be assumed and then…
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Knives Out review – Daniel Craig goes Columbo in Cluedo whodunnit
Craig grills an all-star lineup of suspects when a wealthy novelist is found dead in Rian Johnson’s sharp, country-house murder mysteryRian Johnson unsheathes an entertainingly nasty, if insubstantial detective mystery with his new film, Knives Out. Back in 2005, his debut movie Brick (a high-school thriller) paid tribute to the hardboiled noir genre. Now he…