THE BRINK OF WAR is an engrossing look at diplomacy and realpolitik as experienced at the Reykjavik summit (or meeting, depending on who is talking) between Ronald Reagan (Jeff Daniels) and Mikhail Gorbachev (Jared Harris) in October of 1986. The stakes could not have been higher, as we are reminded at several points in the… Read More »
ABOUT SCHMIDT
With ABOUT SCHMIDT, Alexander Payne fixes the same acute eye he used in both CITIZEN RUTH and ELECTION to once again rip the façade of wholesome gentility from the upper middle class of the heartland of America and to show us the savagery beneath. Again Payne has chosen the milieu Nebraska, the home of the… Read More »
SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS, THE
Time in the Alan Rudolph universe doesn’t flow the same was as it does in the one that you and I inhabit. It lopes along, telescoping events and worrying little about the standard rules of pacing. This can be a good thing when it comes to examing the complexities of human interaction, as in AFTERGLOW,… Read More »