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DON’T THINK TWICE

July 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

DON’T THINK TWICE

At one point in Mike Birbiglia’s DON’T THINK TWICE, a character opines that your 20s are for hope, and your 30s are for realizing how dumb that hope was.  Yet this finely observed tragi-comedy of art, commerce, and finding happiness takes a more compassionate view of its characters, an improv group that is having the… Read More »

Tagged With: Alan Zweibel, Brooklyn, collaboration, Georgetown, Gillian Jacobson, Improv, Jorma Taccone, Keegan-Michael Key, Lena Dunham, pizza, rules of improv, success, The Lonely Island, Upright Citizens Brigade

HIGH-RISE

April 30, 2016 By 1 Comment

HIGH-RISE

There is nothing subtle about HIGH-RISE, a savage allegorical satire of manic energy and pointed symbolism. Based on the novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard, it stars Tom Hiddleston as an urbane neurologist about to discover his place in the social order, and Jeremy Irons as The Architect (how Masonic?), the emotionally constipated… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, anarchy, book to screen, class struggle, J G. Ballard, revolution, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, symbolism

THE GREEN INFERNO

September 21, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE GREEN INFERNO

With an Eli Roth film, one should know what one is getting into, as in, an unspeakably unsettling film that will feature violence, gore, and a side of human nature that does not show the species off to its best advantage.

Tagged With: Amazon, Amazonian tribe, cannibalism, corruption, Eli Roth, exploitation, homage, horror, South American

Listen to GRANDMA

August 28, 2015 By 1 Comment

Listen to GRANDMA

After her granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), has confided to her that she needs an abortion, Elle (Lily Tomlin) cuts right to the heart of the issue.  Not the politics, mind you. Nor the question of how a modern teenager like Sage, someone with plenty of birth-control options, found herself in this position. Elle says the… Read More »

Tagged With: abortion, Betty Friedan, credit cards, GRANDMA, grief, Lily Tomlin, mother-daughter relationship, narrative, Oscar contender, Paul Weitz, women's movement

PUNISHER — WAR ZONE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE PUNISHER is many things, but a good movie is not one of them. It is an extended trip to an abattoir. It is a script that makes no sense whatsoever. It is an unsightly mélange of genres trapped in a steel-cage death match. But worst of all, it’s a wasted opportunity. In Ray Stevenson,… Read More »

PIRANHA 3-D

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It all began with JAWS. The summer blockbuster that kicked off the summer blockbuster concept, that was fun and well-made and not too taxing on the higher cerebral functions. PIRANHA 3-D is a loving homage to that film made by people who understand what made that film great, and who understand how to make it… Read More »

CIRCUMSTANCE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CIRCUMSTANCE begins in a perfect world before being brought back to the reality with a thud. The perfect world involves the freedom of living an authentic life. The real world, modern day Iran, is a place where lies are the common currency of life, and to behave otherwise is to risk everything, even one’s life.… Read More »

SHADOWBOXER — DVD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SHADOWBOXER — DVD

SHADOWBOXER is that most wonderful of films, the kind that works on every level, but can’t be easily pigeonholed. If the usual pitch session is one line to sum up a script, the pitch for this would have to run to several pages and even then wouldn’t capture what is best about it. Director Lee Daniels… Read More »

GOOD LUCK CHUCK

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It’s not like one goes into a film like GOOD LUCK CHUCK with great expectations. And so it is all the more remarkable, dispiriting rather, when even a low bar, a very lowered bar, isn’t met. This flick isn’t just bad, it falls into that rare category of works that are actual harbingers of the… Read More »

FOR A GOOD TIME CALL . . .

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

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 »

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