by James Rocchi | Feb 13, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
This week on The Lunch Podcast, regular host James Rocchi is joined by stand-up comedian and author DC Pierson (DERRICK comedy, Crap Kingdom, The Boy Who Never Slept and Didn’t Have To) for a lengthy discussion of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street...
by James Rocchi | Feb 11, 2014 | Reviews, Staff Picks, What's Hot
Nearly any remake begins its life in Hollywood with the same moment, as some executive gazes upon an older film, whether classic or c-level, and accurately observes that the biggest problem with the original film is clearly that it is not making them any money. And so...
by James Rocchi | Feb 7, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot
Watching The Grand Budapest Hotel — with its decade-jumping aspect-ratio changes, its candy-colored confections of costume and set design, willful whimsical touches and staid, symmetrical compositions — it’s easy to see that it’s the most Wes...
by James Rocchi | Feb 6, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
This week on The Lunch Podcast, regular host James Rocchi is joined by Justin Simien, the writer-director of the Sundance 2014 breakout hit Dear White People, a campus comedy about race, class and representation in an America — and the rare satire that cares...
by James Rocchi | Feb 4, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, Staff Picks, What's Hot
Seen as an eye-rolling example of branding-mad Hollywood at its worst when first announced, The Lego Movie edged slightly towards the possibility of not being a brain-dead commercial for itself with the hiring of Chris Miller and Phillip Lord as writers and directors....