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Co-star Jenna Kanell perfectly channels Neve Campbell from “The Craft” as she channels energy in the spiritually compromised house.
Think Waiting for Guffman blended with Dead Poets Society.
Mr. Marschz (to pronounce it, you have to sort of buzz at the end) has seen too many movies like " Dead Poets Society " and " Mr. Holland's Opus ," and tries to inspire his students with his bizarre behavior.
-- "where dreams go to die," Dana laments -- he attempts to ignite his students' imaginations with stage versions of such cinematic favorites as "Erin Brockovich" and "Dead Poets Society."
Taking his cues from Dangerous Minds , Mr. Holland's Opus , and Dead Poets Society, Dana decides to change the lives of his students.
So do most of his students, who remain unmoved by misty references to Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets Society and other inspirational-teacher movies.
( "Dick" inspires the same joy Amy Hecker-ling's "Clueless" did in its own distaff pop observations and tiny assassinations.)
Hedaya (Clueless) plays Nixon with such humorous intensity that you might vote for him in spite of everything.
Perhaps the sunniest, most innocently charming comedy since 1997's "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" or 1995's "Clueless," "Dick" is a sly, extremely potent political satire, aided by a first-rate cast that hungrily dig into their respective roles with a vengeance.
In something akin to "Clueless" meets "All the President's Men" as filtered through the unintentional historical intervention/mishaps of "Forrest Gump," writer/director Andrew Fleming and cowriter Sheryl Longin deliver a constantly amusing sendup of the whole Watergate scandal that rocked the White House and the country during the early 1970s.
You could say it's a cross between "Clueless" and "Nixon".
In a kind of devilish performance duet, she’s ably matched by a punky live-wire turn from Rumpf, who channels an unholy blend of Béatrice Dalle in “Betty Blue” and Fairuza Balk’s signature 1990s role in “The Craft.”
This cannibal coming-of-age drama is a helluva horror story that joins the ranks of the modern pop feminist nightmares that have come before: What Ginger Snaps did with lycanthropy and The Craft did with its witchy teens, Raw does for the cannibal subgenre by aligning Justine’s burgeoning appetite with her sexual awakening.
Pushing beyond Lovecraft, Stanley folds in elements that appear plucked from cinematic inspirations like Tobe Hooper’s haunted house classic Poltergeist, Alex Garland’s divisive invasion drama Annihilation, John Carpenter’s iconic creature-feature The Thing, Panos Cosmatos’s frenzied horror-fantasy Mandy, and Andrew Fleming’s witchy teen-drama The Craft .
The whole film feels like a straight-faced, better version of 1988’s Bad Dreams without the supernatural elements, and its dark seriousness results in a fantastically grim piece of work.
Despite making room for such bombast, “Enola Holmes” remains tamer and more tasteful in its high-energy storytelling than Guy Ritchie’s recent “Sherlock Holmes” movies, and considerably more fun than last year’s “Nancy Drew” reboot.
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: It’s Nancy Drew meets Sense and Sensibility meets Suffragette .
It’s at this point the story goes full Nancy Drew -style, hardboiled mystery and Steph uses her cooking vlog as a channel to report her personal investigation into the case.
Updates of her disappearance become a regular feature of Stephanie’s vlog, and she spends more time playing “Nancy Drew” as she tries to discover what happened to her new BFF.
Dave and Alonso are back from Spain, and Rachel True from “The Craft” would like to know how they are, among other things.
Steve Coogan (2006's " Marie Antoinette ") is equally tender and brilliantly quirky as Dana Marschz, taking what would seem to be unlikely inspiration from Martin Short in 2001's teen romp " Get Over It ."
Central Intelligence (2016)
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
influenced by The In-Laws (2003)
Plot
Central Intelligence is a better re-make of The In-Laws than the actual re-make of The In-Laws Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks tried back in 2003, and if it’s not as funny as the original In-Laws that’s because no movie is.
While I relished this movie's wild journey, I also grinned to imagine the girls who will watch this like I once did The Craft, appreciating its genre thrills and, beyond that, seeing myself in the furious and feminine at its core.
Well, according to the Lara Flynn Boyle movie Threesome, you all get in the sack together and the girl plays the part of Fingercuffs.
Unimaginatively directed by Jake Schreier (“Robot & Frank”), the film benefits from its confidence in the page-turning pull of its random but breathless plotting, which borrows as much from “Nancy Drew” as from John Hughes.
Despite getting high billing on the poster, Candice Bergen (2003's " The In-Laws ") has but a throwaway one-scene cameo as magazine editor Enid Frick.
When financial wheeler dealer David Hirshon (Steve Coogan, "24 Hour Party People," "Hamlet 2") comes under suspicion however, Gamble's got a bead on a dozen scaffolding violations and springs into action while Hoitz rolls his eyes wondering when they'll ever break away from being known as "The Other Guys."
And yet, from Carrie White to the coven in The Craft to Sue Ann in Ma , horror films reestablish the status quo by putting outcasts in their place.
Zooey Deschanel (1999's "Mumford"), as William's older sister, leaves a striking impression and radiates both heart and intelligence, while Fairuza Balk (1996's "The Craft"), as Band Aid member Sapphire, handles her mostly comedic role with aplomb, even becoming quietly poignant in a late scene as she mourns the fans' decreasing appreciation of just what makes music such a miraculous and powerful form of art and expression.
He had secondary roles in the Ben Stiller comedy Night at the Museum and Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes.
On this side of the Atlantic, however, moviegoers have seen him as Octavius in "Night at the Museum," Phileas Fogg in the misbegotten "Around the World in 80 Days" remake with Jackie Chan -- and, as of last week, as Damien Cockburn, "Tropic Thunder's" pretentious, hopelessly over-his-head director.
A squad of fresh-faced newbie cops working the teen beat smacks of “Hardy Boys” and “Nancy Drew,” but with a badge and a brooding demeanor.