Posts Tagged ‘Kristen Wiig’

Short Take: Delightfully obscene

Director: Jorma Taccone (debut)

Screenwriters: Jorma Taccone (Saturday Night Live), Will Forte, John Solomon (Saturday Night Live)

Cast: Will Forte (Saturday Night Live), Kristen Wiig (Whip It), Ryan Phillippe (Breach), Val Kilmer (The Bad Lieutenant)

Length: 1h 39m

Synopsis: International terror financier Dieter Von Cunth (Kilmer) has just stolen a nuclear warhead and is looking to blow up Washington D.C. In his way stands a man known only as MacGruber (Forte), who faked his death ten years ago and is being reinstated by the U.S. military to intercept the warhead. His methods are perplexing, but he gets results. Highly decorated and highly unstable, MacGruber and his team try their best to thwart Cunth’s evil plan in any way they can – even if it means having to rip some throats out. Read the rest of this entry »

Short Take: A very solid tale of self discovery

Director: Drew Barrymore (debut)

Screenwriter: Shauna Cross (screenplay and novel)

Cast: Ellen Page (Juno), Drew Barrymore (He’s Just Not That Into You), Marcia Gay Harden (The Mist, Mystic River), Juliette Lewis (Starsky and Hutch), Kristen Wiig (Extract, Adventureland), Daniel Stern (Bushwhacked)

Length: 1h 51m

Synopsis: Bliss (Page), a 17 year old high school girl living in rural Texas, is just trying to get through life as uneventfully as possible, enduring the normal adolescent growing pains that everyone old enough to have had them knows stink. While normally trying to please her mother (Harden) and her obsession with beauty pageants, she one day becomes intrigued by the sport of roller derby. Supported by her ever-faithful best friend Pash (Alia Shawkat) she secretly earns a spot on a derby team in Austin, sneaking away at night to practice with 30 year old tough girls called Maggie Mayhem (Wiig), Smashley Simpson (Barrymore), and Iron Maven (Lewis). Her only obstacle becomes keeping these two lives separate, which proves more difficult than she had anticipated. Read the rest of this entry »