Six Minutes to Midnight

Eddie Izzard is a teacher with a secret in the World War II thriller

"...Directed by: Andy Goddard. Starring: Eddie Izzard, Judi Dench, Carla Juri, James D'Arcy and Jim..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review

Get Duked!

Gloriously idiotic horror-comedy pits Scottish youth against aristocratic killers

"...Starring: Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja, Rian Gordon, Lewis Gribben, Eddie Izzard, Georgie Glen, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo, Jonathan Aris..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The High Note

Don't call it a comeback: Music industry dramedy plays everything safe.

"...Starring: Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ice Cube and Eddie Izzard...."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Song of Names

Holocaust drama about a missing musical prodigy never finds its rhythm

"...Misha Handley, Stanley Townsend, Magdalena Cielecka, Saul Rubinek and Eddie Izzard...."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Depraved

A modern Frankenstein finds the sins of the fathers in war and commerce

"...follows, and Leonard plays the role like an American Eddie Izzard: clever, cutting, and a little bit bored...."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...politics, hip-hop loving farmers, and hallucinogenic rabbit shite. Cast: Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie, Jonathan Aris,..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ring in the New Year With a Binge Watch

12 streaming shows to get you to midnight and beyond

"...(including Chris O’Dowd, Jon Hamm, Paul Rudd, Kathy Burke, Eddie Izzard, Noel Fielding...), Ayoade hits tourist hot spots and..."

Dec. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Victoria & Abdul

An unlikely friendship develops in this period piece

"...Stephen Frears. Starring: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Michael Gambon, Eddie Izzard, Olivia Williams, Adeel Akhtar and Simon Callow...."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rock Dog

It's a dog … that rocks!

"...jokes go to the story’s rock god Angus Scattergood (Izzard), a cat who lives in a mansion on a..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Learned It by Watching Movies

A film primer for the best in wicked entertainment

"...Ewan McGregor as Slade's love interest, Curt Wild, and Eddie Izzard as their manager. With its BAFTA award-winning costumes..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

Ron Howard tackles the Beatles

"...and Ringo Starr add perspective, and observers such as Eddie Izzard, Elvis Costello, Richard Lester, and journalist Larry Kane..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Botox at the Death Cafe

Meeting looks past the 'wrinkles' of a taboo subject

"...added. It reminded her of a bit by comedian Eddie Izzard: What if you were offered a choice between..."

Sept. 20, 2013 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

The AggreGAYtor: October 19

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Smith, the result of making copies of copies of Eddie Izzard, is upset that he was demoted due to..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

TV Eye

The games are finally over. Time to get back to regular programming.

"...Film Independent Spirit Awards airs March 5, 7pm, IFC. Eddie Izzard hosts. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin co-host the..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

A new PBS show examines technology's effect on work, pleasure, and the very idea of what it means to be human

Jan. 29, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

A new six-part IFC documentary cracks the code on that wonderful crackpot Monty Python troupe

"...Stephen Merchant's droll delivery or the devil-may-care cross-dressing of Eddie Izzard or the zany staccato delivery in Seth Green's..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Valkyrie

Tom Cruise seems somewhat out of place as a German officer in this thriller about the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July 1944.

"...Wilkinson, Terence Stamp, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann and Eddie Izzard. We all know how it ends, and that..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

A visit with Van and a send-off for Cyd.

"...it an unholy alliance. He took me to see Eddie Izzard at the Paramount. David had seen the show..."

July 4, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Pevensie kids are summoned back to Narnia for yet another mystical adventure based on C.S. Lewis' series of fantasy books.

"...a blind layman to see. Aside from the scene-stealing, Eddie Izzard-voiced mouse Reepicheep, there's precious little whimsy on display,..."

May 23, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

This Con's for You

"...to be a short-term "bleed," but Dad (the extraordinary Eddie Izzard as Wayne Malloy, aka Doug Rich) keeps ratcheting..."

April 11, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

NBC late-night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien will return to the air in early 2008; also, 'TV Eye' eyes the Golden Globe noms

"...an Actress in a Television Series, but her co-star Eddie Izzard does not appear in the Best Actor nominees,..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Romance & Cigarettes

John Turturro directs this oddball musical in which the stars (the eclectic cast of James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Mary-Louise Parker, Christopher Walken, Aida Turturro, and Mandy Moore) lip-sync and dance to popular songs.

"...way through Janis Joplin’s “Piece of My Heart” with Eddie Izzard and a church choir singing backup. The first..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Across the Universe

Julie Taymor takes the timelessness of the Beatles' music and yanks it earthward into a minefield of literalism.

"...escapes its deadly literalism, especially during humorous appearances by Eddie Izzard as Mr. Kite, Bono as Dr. Richard, Joe..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ocean's Thirteen

This heist franchise has settled into a kind of hipster equanimity.

"...Qin, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner, Eddie Izzard and Jerry Weintraub. Three films in, and Soderbergh’s..."

June 15, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Embracing The Riches

The Riches young Sam Malloy comes out (as if he was ever in…).

"...series starring the delicious team of Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard as the heads of a family of gypsy-cons..."

May 15, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Lee Hazlewood

"...Cake or Death, a title borrowed from unlikely hero Eddie Izzard, Hazelwood gets political; "Baghdad Knights" is told from..."

March 2, 2007 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

High-concept farce crashes down pretty low: Think Fatal Attraction meets X-Men and you basically have the gist.

"...Ivan Reitman. Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard and Wanda Sykes. You'd think that the director..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Aristocrats

The gleefully profane The Aristocrats provides a survey of some of the best comic minds in the business.

"...Paul Reiser, Jackie Martling, Robin Williams, the Smothers Brothers, Eddie Izzard, and dozens more all put their signature on..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin: Fruitiest City of All Time?

"...don't let them mess with rock & roll. As Eddie Izzard said, "No smoking in bars now, and soon,..."

May 2, 2005 Postmarks

Ocean's Twelve

Like Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven and 1960’s Rat-Packing original, Ocean's Twelve is an elaborate and delightful excuse to get the screen’s biggest and most gorgeous stars in the same film.

"...Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould, Vincent Cassel, Shaobo Qin and Eddie Izzard. Let’s be honest: With a cast like this,..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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