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THE BOSS

April 8, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE BOSS

Melissa McCarthy may be the funniest woman working in film or on television today.  Certainly, there is no one funnier, and no one more adept, at finding both humor and pathos in a given situation.  When armed with a great script — think THE HEAT or her breakout role in BRIDESMAIDS — she is a… Read More »

Tagged With: corporate tycoon, insider trading, katana, mentor, set in Chicago, Single mother, white-collar crime

THE VISIT

September 12, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE VISIT

Admittedly the bar has been greatly lowered when approaching any new film from M. Night Shyamalan, quondam wunderkind of cinema, whose SIXTH SENSE left us breathless with delight, and whose subsequent work left us more and more dismayed as the work deteriorated from the thoughtfully disturbing SIGNS, through the kitsch of THE VILLAGE, the silliness… Read More »

Tagged With: comeback, found-footage, grandparents. pathologies of aging, Hansel and Gretel, horror, Single mother

Chris and Paul Weitz Talk ABOUT A BOY

September 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Chris and Paul Weitz Talk ABOUT A BOY

Chris and Paul Weitz were the directors of the wildly successful AMERICAN PIE. I was suitably impressed that they were able to switch successfully from broad farce to an insightful, even sensitive, comedy about a man who refuses to grow up and a boy who had no choice in the matter. Talking with them, it quickly became apparent that… Read More »

Tagged With: ABOUT A BOY, AMERICAN PIE, book to screen, Chris Weitz, comedy-drama, Hugh Grant, London, narrative, Nick Hornsby, Paul Weitz, Single mother, Toni Collette

CYRUS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

A man, a woman, her son. It’’s a situation of jealous hostility explored many times, but never more honestly, more painfully, or with bigger laughs than in Jay and Mark Duplass’ CYRUS. Made with an improvisational style that perfectly evokes the awkward immediacy of three people working through a new relationship that changes all their… Read More »

Tagged With: Catherine Keener, Duplass Brothers, Matt Walsh, mother-son relationship, music prodigy, narrative, Single mother

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