How funny you found the film Good Boys that opened this past weekend likely depended upon how hysterical you regard the word “f*ck.” In this new raucous…… Read more “New Review from Jeff York of Creative Screenwriting Magazine: Comedies Like “Good Boys” Mine Laughs But Fail to Cut Deeper”
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New from Al and Linda Lerner on Movies and Shakers: The Peanut Butter Falcon
This is a variation on the buddy road trip, that’s definitely worth taking. Zack Gottsagen is an actor with Down’s Syndrome whose character dreams of becoming a…… Read more “New from Al and Linda Lerner on Movies and Shakers: The Peanut Butter Falcon”
New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Memory Informs Trauma in the Extraordinary Documentary ‘One Child Nation’
By Andrea Thompson Growing up, I would hear about families adopting girls from China in nothing but the most positive terms. Why not? Everyone knew about the…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Memory Informs Trauma in the Extraordinary Documentary ‘One Child Nation’”
New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Where’d You Go, Bernadette Movie Review: Even Cate Blanchett can’t salvage this train wreck
By Andrea Thompson There’s a really good movie hiding in Where’d You Go, Bernadette, but by the time the heroine runs off in the second half, it’s…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Where’d You Go, Bernadette Movie Review: Even Cate Blanchett can’t salvage this train wreck”
New from Andrea Thompson on The Young Folks: Where’d You Go, Bernadette Movie Review: Even Cate Blanchett can’t salvage this train wreck
There’s a really good movie hiding in Where’d You Go, Bernadette, but by the time the heroine runs off in the second half, it’s nowhere to be…… Read more “New from Andrea Thompson on The Young Folks: Where’d You Go, Bernadette Movie Review: Even Cate Blanchett can’t salvage this train wreck”
New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Where’d You Go, Bernadette is Tricky Business for Richard Linklater
Nearly three-and-a-half years ago when reviewing Everybody Wants Some!!, this writer identified two parallels between which filmmaker Richard Linklater always seems to operate. It was either “free-wheeling…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Where’d You Go, Bernadette is Tricky Business for Richard Linklater”
New from Andrew Emerson of The Film Watcher: Stephen Frears and the Simplicity of A Very English Scandal
Stephen Frears’ A Very English Scandal suffers from needless didacticism and a lack of curiosity about history. (**) Read MoreStephen Frears and the Simplicity of <em>A Very…… Read more “New from Andrew Emerson of The Film Watcher: Stephen Frears and the Simplicity of A Very English Scandal”
