by Coeli Carr | May 31, 2013
Director M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth is less the sci-fi action story it purports to be, and more a meditation on the prickly nature of the father-son relationship. After Earth is set far into the future, a thousand years after earth has become uninhabitable. The... 
by Coeli Carr | May 15, 2013
The classic pencil skirt worn by Greta Gerwig’s Frances, the lovable 27-year-old gal-in-transition heroine in the new movie Frances Ha, is an aspirational one for this character. Her life is sprawling out of control, as she experiences unstable housing arrangements, a... 
by Coeli Carr | May 14, 2013
Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha is a tribute to both the magic that happens when love and work are well integrated in a person’s life, and the chaos that ensues when either or both of these elements are out of sync. Twenty-seven-year-old Frances (Greta Gerwig, who also... 
by Coeli Carr | Apr 18, 2013
Victoria’s (Andrea Riseborough) minimalist, high-altitude office in Oblivion may be an irritably long commute but you’ll covet her snappy, gray dress that’s a perfect fit for both the horizontal monitor board and the board room. Under the aegis of the movie’s costume... 
by Coeli Carr | Mar 22, 2013
Being an admissions officer at Princeton University suggests a fascination with noble Jupiterian concerns such as higher mind and an eagerness to expand the noggins of incoming freshmen. Unfortunately, Portia Nathan (Tina Fey), Admission’s unlikely heroine, is so... 