Alia Shawkat

The Brass Teapot (2012)

The Brass Teapot (2012)
Rating: ★★
Jul 5, 2013Magic Teapot That Produces Money When People Are Hurt
Comedy with a head-scratching premise where a couple discover a teapot that produces money whenever they hurt themselves. Such a loopy premise could work as a black comedy but this plays itself as a frothy light fantasy
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Ruby Sparks (2012)

Ruby Sparks (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 1, 2012Writer Brings His Ideal Woman to Life
The Little Miss Sunshine directors follow their hit up with a film about a writer who brings his ideal woman to life. Scriptwriter Zoe Kazan sparkles in the title role but the film never pushes its central concept too much beyond being a quirkily sweet indie romance
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The Final Girls (2015)

The Final Girls (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 15, 2015Characters Trapped Inside a Slasher Movie/Meta-Fictional Parody
A wittily clever deconstruction of the slasher film where a bunch of contemporary characters are transported inside a 1980s slasher movie where their modern ways proceed to hilariously upset the cliches
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Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday (2016)

Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday (2016)
Rating: ★★★
May 7, 2016Overgrown Adolescent's Nonsense Adventures
Pee-Wee Herman is a deliberately annoying character that is either adored or intensely loathed by audiences. This third film closely follows the structure of the first film with Pee-Wee in a series of nonsense adventures on a cross-country journey
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