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SIMCHAS AND SORROWS — Genevieve Adams Interview

July 20, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SIMCHAS AND SORROWS — Genevieve Adams Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. I loved the first scenes of Genevieve Adams’ SIMCHAS AND SORROWS so much that I worried what followed would have a hard time living up to it. In it, the heroine, Agnes, during her Catholic schoolgirl days, questions a nun about Jesus’ own religious upbringing, and how best… Read More »

Tagged With: big personalities, casting, compassion, conversion, David Foster Wallace, Holocaust, Palestine, rom-com, salted quinoa straws, Yom Kippur sermon

MARRY ME

February 14, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MARRY ME

MARRY ME falls into the category of mostly harmless. As a rom-com, it shadows its inspiration, NOTTING HILL, at a respectful distance in an exercise tailored to showcase its star/co-producer Jennifer Lopez as an actress and a singer fond of sparkly outfits. It’s bright, shiny, and no more serious than its premise of a superstar… Read More »

Tagged With: lonely superstar, math teacher, meet cute, New York, New York City, opposites attract, rom-com, single father

ISN’T IT ROMANTIC

February 20, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ISN’T IT ROMANTIC

It’s a clever premise that propels ISN’T IT ROMANTIC, using the idiom of rom-coms to give us just that, but a rom-com that affirms that the regular Joe and Jane out there can also be the star. One that deconstructs every cliché with self-aware relish, while also staying open to the magic of true love.… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate universe, architect, karaoke, office romance, parking garage, rom-com, spoof

Amy Schumer is No TRAINWRECK

July 21, 2015 By 2 Comments

Amy Schumer is No TRAINWRECK

Turning gender roles neatly on their heads, Amy Schumer has created a screwball comedy of considerable substance. Taking sure aim at the abomination of the formula rom-com, she satirizes not just the genre, but the state of contemporary single-hood. Starring in a script of her own devising, she is fearless, relentless, and completely unapologetic as the titular hot mess, also named Amy, with commitment issues and a healthy libido.

Tagged With: Amy Schumer, comedy, debauchery, father-daughter relationship, homelessness, narrative, rom-com, satire, sister relationship, social commentary

ALOHA

May 28, 2015 By Leave a Comment

ALOHA

ALOHA is a glorious, unkempt disaster of a film.  Individual elements are ambitious, even praiseworthy, but the narrative arc of this comedy-drama about Hawaiian legends, the privatization of space, and a hunky guy with commitment issues falls apart almost as soon as the whirl-a-gig ride begins.  Credit where it’s due, though, writer-director Cameron Crowe is… Read More »

Tagged With: Air Force, feature, Hawaii, Hawaiian myths, Lomo, military, muddled, narrative, Pele, rom-com

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