When Edward was a young boy growing up in rural Kansas he dreamed of running away to join a band. However, he’s now about to have his 30th birthday and he’s still living at home with his parents, and still taking the mind-numbing drugs his pediatrician had prescribed, and he’s about to lose his dead end job. The … Continue reading
I can only suppose that writer/director Sam Levinson (some of director Barry) chose the title for his debut feature movie with a real sense of irony. He does such a good job convincing us that the embittered family in thecentre of this drama has never had a single happy day, let alone another one! Mr. Levinson … Continue reading
Jessica Brown-Findlay is on roll right now playing willful young girls determined to get their own way. Fresh off ‘Downtown Abbey’ where as Lady Sybil she gets to run off with the handsome family chauffer, she’s now playing Emelia a very stylish wayward and somewhat wild 17 year-old budding wordsmith trying to ‘find herself’ in a small … Continue reading
It’s rare to get the whole crux of a movie in an opening scene but that’s exactly what happens here when we see Nader & Simin facing a judge on their own in an otherwise empty room arguing about getting a divorce. They are a successful middle-aged professional couple living in present day Iran who had agreed in principle … Continue reading
Roman Polanski has co-adapted Yasmin Reza’s Tony Award Winning play ‘God of Carnage’ into a movie and despite the performances and Reza’s wonderful words it does still feel very much like a play that just happens to have been filmed. All the action takes place in a very comfortable high-rise apartment in Brooklyn on … Continue reading