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WHY HIM?

December 21, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WHY HIM?

Long before he was mild-mannered chemistry teacher turned fearsome drug lord on Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston made his mark in television comedy by, among other things, keeping Malcolm in the middle, and tending to Seinfeld’s teeth.  Those comedic chops stand him in good stead for WHY HIM?, an intermittently hilarious hybrid of the buddy film… Read More »

Tagged With: boyfriend, Christmas, father-daughter, hi-tech, paperless toilet, printing business, Silicon Valley, Stanford

TRAIN TO BUSAN (Busanhaeng)

September 25, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TRAIN TO BUSAN (Busanhaeng)

New zombies, new rules. If TRAIN TO BUSAN did nothing but find a new take on zombies, it would be worth your time, but this Korean gem goes the extra yardage to gift us with an engrossing story that contains only a soupçon of well-regulated sappy sentiment.  It’s far more interested in observing what happens… Read More »

Tagged With: divorce, father-daughter, horror, Korea, pregnancy, Seoul, thriller, train, zombie

Matt Ross is CAPTAIN FANTASTIC

July 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Matt Ross is CAPTAIN FANTASTIC

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC opens with a deer hunt.  It’s graphic. It’s violent. Yet there is something about it that shows enormous respect for the animal, and for the young man who brings it down using only a knife. This is not sport, it’s food.  That sequence was the first thing I brought up on July 7,… Read More »

Tagged With: alternative educations, being present, Carey Fukunaga, child rearing, crochet, death, Family, father-daughter, father-son, funeral, gender fluidity, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, hunting, long close-up, Off the grid, Ozu, parental anxiety, spike stitch, The Mermaid, William Butler Yeats

THE NICE GUYS

May 20, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE NICE GUYS

Shane Black has the gift of making films that are nail-bitingly suspenseful and wickedly funny at the same time. He did it with KISS KISS BANG BANG, and he’s done it again with THE NICE GUYS, a stylishly acerbic and decidedly hard-boiled neo-Noir pitting nihilism against idealism during the candy-colored decadence of 1977 Los Angeles.… Read More »

Tagged With: 1977, father-daughter, fractured ulna, Los Angeles, mystery, porn, private eye, violence

Maya Forbes’ Pet INFINITELY POLAR BEAR

June 19, 2015 By 1 Comment

Maya Forbes’ Pet INFINITELY POLAR BEAR

Click here to listen to the interview. Maya Forbes has been a screenwriter for years, with co-credits for MONSTERS AND ALIENS and DIARY OF A WIMPY KID to her credit. She was also a writer and story editor on HBO’s groundbreaking THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW. For her directorial debut, though, she chose a script she… Read More »

Tagged With: autobiography, based on a true story, bi-racia;, Bipolar Disorder, cinema, father-daughter, hypomania, Imogene Wolodarsky, Mark Ruffalo, Maya Forbes, mental illness, movie, narrative, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, race, Zoe Saldana

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