By Rex Reed 10/16/12 7:10pm

movies

Thirlby in Nobody Walks.

Ants in Your Pants: Nobody Walks is a Convoluted On-Screen Orgy That Doesn’t Arouse

The last film by novice indie director Ry Russo-Young was an empty bottle called You Won’t Miss Me, about an alienated 23-year-old misfit just released from a psychiatric hospital. Her new film, Nobody Walks, is an empty bottle about an alienated 23-year-old misfit from New York who is making a video about insects for her art thesis. She seems to have a thing for 23-year-old misfits. Too bad she can’t find a way to make a movie about them that will keep anyone awake. Co-written by Lena Dunham, whose TV sitcom Girls is another guaranteed cure for insomnia, Nobody Walks is 82 minutes long—and I was snoozing 30 minutes in. This is not good for anyone anxious to build a reputation or entertain an audience.  Read More

By Rex Reed 5/26/09 9:56pm

Quelle Horreur! Summer Fright Flicks are DOA

What Goes Up
Running Time 104 minutes
Written by Jonathan Glatzer and Robert Lawson
Directed by Jonathan Glatzer
Starring Steve Coogan, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon, Olivia Thirlby

Pontypool
Running time 95 minutes
Written by Tony Burgess
Directed by Bruce McDonald
Starring Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Rick Roberts

Desperate weeks produce disastrous Read More

By Rex Reed 7/01/08 4:14pm

The Wackness is … Ack! Yes, Even with Sir Ben Kingsley

TheWackness
Running time 110 minutes
Written and directed by Jonathan Levine
Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen, Mary-Kate Olsen

Not the least of the problems facing people who write about movies on a weekly basis is the deadlines. You can’t say, “I think I’d rather go to Read More

By Andrew Sarris 7/01/08 4:07pm

Hip-Hop Hooray

The Wackness
Running time 110 minutes
Written and directed by Jonathan Levine
 Starring Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen

Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness, from his own screenplay, takes place in New York during the summer of 1994, when the newly inaugurated mayor, Rudy Giuliani, was beginning his now notorious crackdown Read More

By Irina Aleksander 6/23/08 5:27pm

Olivia Thirlby Is Poor, Mildly 'Ticked Off' at Judd Apatow

Olivia Thirlby has been busy since her appearance as Ellen Page’s best friend in Juno.

There is her role opposite Ben Kigsley and Mary Kate Olsen in The Wackness (out July 3rd), Safety Glass with Steve Coogan and The Dream of the Romans with Lauren Graham, both in post-production, the delayed Kenneth Lonergan drama, Margaret, Read More

By Jake Brooks 2/28/08 10:50pm

Snow Angels in Soho! Malick Manque David Gordon Green at Apple Store

David Gordon Green’s dream of becoming the next Terrence Malick may have stalled a bit after the lukewarm reception of 2004′s Undertow, a heavy family drama starring Jamie Bell, Dermot Mulroney, and Josh Lucas. But he’s back with—you guessed it!—another heavy family drama, entitled Snow Angels, based on the Stewart O’Nan novel of the same Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 2/26/08 5:51pm

Olivia Thirlby: Juno’s Bestie on the Brink

“My brain hasn’t really processed it. I actually can’t believe it,” said Olivia Thirlby, via phone, early in the morning of Oscar Sunday. The 21-year-old actress, in Los Angeles, was eating breakfast (“I’m sorry for the crunching”) and about to embark upon the daylong process of readying herself for the red carpet to end all Read More