What’s Happening in this New Baumbach Film?

24Mar10

What is happening in Greenberg? One thing is Noah Baumbauch’s near-perfect screenplay and direction. This is a real LA film, and for whatever reason, Baumbach has chosen LA to be the setting for all our sadness. Because that’s what this film is. It’s sadness…all of ours, represented in the title character far less than it [...]

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Tags: Ben Stiller, Greenberg, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach

I Fear What I May Do One Fateful Valentine’s Day

08Mar10

Not really. I mean, aside from giving myself digestive problems from eating too many jelly beans in one sitting and washing it down with a bottle of Riesling, which has happened before, so I can’t even really fear that anymore. But the revelation with Shutter Island is that it gives us a remarkable fear within [...]

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Tags: Ahhh!, Film Review, Shutter Island

We Are the Music-Makers*

04Mar10

So guess who’s having a golden ticket contest? A company branded with the same name as a chocolate factory from a lovely book that was adapted into one of the best musical screenplays of my life. That’s who. According to the Wonka (owned by Nestle) marketing team, they are hiding golden tickets in bars of [...]

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Tags: Golden Tickets, If You Want to View Paradise, Nestle, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Wonka