WIN WIN presents Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), a decent man and an honest lawyer beetling through life with financial worries that he meticulously keeps from his adored family. Keeping it in has given him episodes that arent quite heart attacks, but are enough to alarm his best friend, Terry (Bobby Canavale), into calling an ambulance.… Read More »
YOUNG ADULT
The key to YOUNG ADULT’s protagonist, Mavis Gray, is her response to a particular question. Appearing bedraggled and wine-stained on the doorstep of her human doormat, Matt Freehauf, she is asked by him what happened. The audience knows she has been devastated by having her illusions taken from her. Her answer, though, eschews that. Instead,… Read More »
FRIENDS WITH KIDS
Best friends Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt) and Jason (Adam Scott) think they have it all figured out when it comes to having it all. Having seen the toll that the introduction of childbearing has taken on the relationships of their hip and ecstatically happy married friends, they turn cerebral about the most primal of instincts and… Read More »
FOR A GOOD TIME CALL . . .
It was once written, in far less enlightened times, that when a man marries, one part of his life changes, but when a woman marries, it is her whole life that is changed. Despite significant, if not total, gains in the social and economic equality department between men and women, when it comes to romance,… Read More »
FOR A GOOD TIME CALL . . .
It was once written, in far less enlightened times, that when a man marries, one part of his life changes, but when a woman marries, it is her whole life that is changed. Despite significant, if not total, gains in the social and economic equality department between men and women, when it comes to romance,… Read More »
THE WAY WAY BACK
THE WAY WAY BACK is a sensitive, intelligent coming-of-age tale that is never trite, maudlin, or melodramatic. Instead, it harbors a strong sense of reality when it comes to adults acting like children and vice versa. It brings you up short with its very first shot. That would be of Steve Carells eyes in a… Read More »
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