Elizabeth Lail – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S – Review by Susan Kamyab

November 13, 2023November 15, 2023 Susan Kamyab Elizabeth Lail, Five Nights at Freddy, Josh Hutcherson, Matthew Lillard, video game franchise

The video game franchise, Five Nights at Freddy‘s has made its way to the theaters with a storyline created for the big screen. However, it might be more entertaining playing this game, rather than watching it. For fans of the game, this premise relates perfectly to the story and audiences can easily follow. Five Nights at Freddy’s won’t stand out among other video game adaptations or even other horror films from this year, but it does have a few entertaining moments and it might make you feel nostalgic enough to want to visit a Chuck E. Cheese. So, I suggest catching this one at a matinee with kiddos of age.

Reviews

MACK & RITA – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

August 10, 2022August 14, 2022 Valerie Kalfrin diane keaton, Elizabeth Lail, Katie Aselton, Lois Smith, Loretta Devine, Mack & Rita, Madeline Walter, Paul Welsh, Taylour Paige, Wendie Malick

The feather-light comedy Mack & Rita is a diverting and sweet take on self-acceptance that’s content to bask in the company of the individualistic Diane Keaton. At 76, Keaton is as endearing as her character thinks she’s awkward. She ambles into a Pilates studio with a long patterned coat, sparkly tam, and pink shoes, playing off being the oldest woman in the room. She burps over jumbo shrimp, then goes back for seconds. She thinks out loud, stringing what might be blunt or contradictory thoughts together, before getting behind one wholeheartedly

Interviews

Katie Aselton on MACK & RITA, Diane Keaton and Collaboration – Nell Minow interviews

August 10, 2022August 14, 2022 Nell Minow book club, diane keaton, Elizabeth Lail, Katie Aselton, Mack & Rita, Paul Welsh, Taylour Paige

Katie Aselton is the director of the body-switching comedy Mack & Rita, about a 30-year-old who wishes she was 70 and is somehow transformed into Diane Keaton. In an interview she talked about how old she feels, directing Keaton (who played her mother in the film, Book Club), and why her favorite part of making movies is collaboration.