Actress-filmmaker Radha Blank makes a smart feature film debut with the semi-autobiographical midlife-crisis tale The Forty-Year-Old Version.
The Women remake with Meg Ryan. In the old Margalo Gilmore (on Broadway, 1936), Norma Shearer (1939), and June Allyson (1956) role, 1990s Hollywood Sweetheart Meg Ryan plays a materially…
Bread and Butter movie with Bobby Moynihan and Christine Weatherup. Late-life virginity is detrimental to your emotional health. Bread and Butter movie review: Late-life virginity & other social anxieties in…
In Stereo with Micah Hauptman and Beau Garrett: Wit and sarcasm. ‘In Stereo’: Witty & sarcastic romantic comedy In Stereo is a particular kind of romantic comedy – the kind full…
Carnage review mix is less than enthusiastic: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski’s post-arrest comeback. Based on Yasmine Reza’s play God of Carnage, Roman…
Directed and written by Chris Rock, who also stars, I Think I Love My Wife is an utter failure as both social commentary and comedy.
Trust the Man with Julianne Moore and David Duchovny. ‘Trust the Man’: Stellar cast fails to save unromantic & unfunny romantic comedy Like social scientists who spend too much time…
Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche: ‘The Players’ posters and 9/11 joke removed. World Trade Center 9/11 joke removed from Jean Dujardin sex comedy ‘The Players’ “Jean Dujardin, already Oscared, can…
Alexander Payne’s road movie comedy Sideways suffers from a much too ardent desire to pander to its audience - to the detriment of its characters.