REVIEW: Greenberg
Noah Baumbach set the bar sky-high with his incredibly personal and deeply moving 2005 movie “The Squid and the Whale,” a very funny but very serious look at divorce from the perspective of the...
View ArticleF.I.L.M. of the Week (January 22, 2015)
The Sundance Film Festival arrives, like clockwork, at the beginning of each year to inject a fresh bit of hope into our outlook for the upcoming year in film. While we tire of the year’s awards...
View ArticleREVIEW: While We’re Young
If you mentioned the phrase “my generation” to people my parents’ age (straddling the Baby Boomer/Generation X boundary), they might start humming that hopelessly catchy song by The Who. Ask...
View ArticleREVIEW: Welcome to Me
Seeing as how she got her start on “Saturday Night Live,” Kristen Wiig is certainly no stranger to satire. While her work on that topical comedy show often brilliantly pointed out human error and...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Hateful Eight
Snappy dialogue and intricately planned-out scenes put Quentin Tarantino on the map as a generation-defining talent, so it sure is nice to see him once again embracing that spirit in his eighth film,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Anomalisa
I have often thought of writing a screenplay, taking a Woody Allen-like approach of stashing all the ideas away in case one of them seems relevant or worth pursuing later. Different germs of ideas...
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