Seasoned — Pilot
Seasoned is a proposed television show based on the popularity of Mandy Patinkin’s and Kathryn Grody’s home videos on social media. The pilot episode, “Hangry,” aired in the Episodic program… Continue reading "Seasoned — Pilot"
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Piani, 2025)
As a longtime scholar of Jane Austen’s fiction and a self-professed snob about films derived from it, the biggest compliment I can pay to Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is… Continue reading "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Piani, 2025)"
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Nearly everything I can think to say about Final Reckoning sounds like (and is) a criticism, so I guess I should be honest that I thought the film superbly executed… Continue reading "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning"
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Another Simple Favor (Feig, 2025)
On paper — at the pitch level — Another Simple Favor sounds like a no-brainer. Seven years out from a film that reportedly grossed 100M on a budget of 20,… Continue reading "Another Simple Favor (Feig, 2025)"
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Doubt (Shanley, 2008)
At the end of a series of interviews on the DVD for Doubt, writer/director John Patrick Shanley explains what he was trying to do in his play and its film… Continue reading "Doubt (Shanley, 2008)"
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Hello Beautiful (Hamzeh, 2025)
Given that Hello Beautiful‘s sole reason for being seems to be to induce sympathy for a woman with breast cancer, saying that it attempts to do absolutely nothing else feels… Continue reading "Hello Beautiful (Hamzeh, 2025)"
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Relative Control (Yachin, 2025)
If one grows up watching a lot of television or going to the movies, one develops positive associations with any number of actors or actresses who participated in beloved projects.… Continue reading "Relative Control (Yachin, 2025)"
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Good Bad Things (Stanger, 2024)
Good Bad Things is a winsome indie romance from Music Box about a guy with Muscular Dystrophy who finds the woman of his dreams (of all our dreams really) on… Continue reading "Good Bad Things (Stanger, 2024)"
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The Librarians (Snyder, 2025)
Kim A. Snyder’s Newtown was one of my favorite films of 2016, so I walked into The Librarians with understandably high expectations. As with Snyder’s gut-punching portrait of Sandy Hook… Continue reading "The Librarians (Snyder, 2025)"
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Speak (Tiexiera and Mossman, 2025)
Speak is this year’s feel-good film at Full Frame, and it comes with all the feels one wants and needs from a festival crowd-pleaser. I have mentioned elsewhere that film… Continue reading "Speak (Tiexiera and Mossman, 2025)"