T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Tribeca 2021 June 15, 2021 Tribeca 2021: “7 Days” somehow makes the COVID-19 rom-com work Roshan Sethi (mostly) overcomes the stigma of the dreaded "sheltering in place together" movie with two lovely lead turns.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 18, 2021 SXSW 2021 Narrative Spotlight: “Language Lessons”, “Recovery”, “Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break” COVID-separated relationships and sociopathic actors mark SXSW's latest crop of narrative spotlight features.
B Categories Berlinale Festivals Movies Reviews March 3, 2021 Berlinale 2021: “Language Lessons” is a celebration of human connection Natalie Morales directs herself and Mark Duplass in a tender look at the bonds we form to save ourselves in a hard world.
R Categories TV October 28, 2019 Review: Don’t Bother Getting Up for “The Morning Show” Apple+’s new drama about the cutthroat world of TV news looks good but suffers from derivative, clumsy writing. Sunday’s New York Times featured an op-ed..
P Categories Movies February 21, 2019 Paddleton Review: Duplass & Romano Make Up Games to Defy Death Mumblecore moves into middle-age with a delightfully understated Netflix sleeper about two neighbors, a cancer diagnosis, and a made-up game.
W Categories Columns Features February 18, 2019 What to Watch on Streaming: Week of February 22nd, 2019 From food porn to mumblecore to frightening docs about the global economy, we tell you what to watch on streaming this weekend.