Click here for the flashback interview with John Krasinski for THE HOLLARS. John Krasinski’s great strength as a filmmaker is that he can capture the full spectrum of emotions, the fleeting bit of comfort in remembering a loved one who has died while the grief is still raw, or the poignant joy of remembering… Read More »
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THE KILL ROOM — Nicol Paone Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. THE KILL ROOM takes on the cut-throat art world with a delightful, dare I say pointed, juxtaposition with the world of contract killers. This droll confection tells the tale of a clever money laundering scheme dreamed up by The Black Dreidel (Samuel L. Jackson) based on the pretention… Read More »
HEARTS BEAT LOUD
Click here for the flashback interview with Brett Haley and Katharine Ross for THE HERO. Timing is everything, as we learn in Brett Haley’s HEARTS BEAT LOUD, an irresistible, perfectly balanced comedy-drama about love, loss, and that old truism about the only constant that we can count on is change. It’s also Nick Offerman being… Read More »
LITTLE MEN
There is no phase of a parent-child relationship more fraught with peril, and for which either party is less prepared, than when the latter learns that the former is not infallible. LITTLE MEN portrays that milestone with intelligence and sensitivity for all concerned as two 13-year-olds become fast friends only to have their relationship threatened… Read More »
DON’T THINK TWICE
At one point in Mike Birbiglia’s DON’T THINK TWICE, a character opines that your 20s are for hope, and your 30s are for realizing how dumb that hope was. Yet this finely observed tragi-comedy of art, commerce, and finding happiness takes a more compassionate view of its characters, an improv group that is having the… Read More »
Mike Birbiglia Says DON’T THINK TWICE
I met Mike Birbiglia at an improv school in San Francisco’s Mission District where he had just taught a class despite coming down with a cold. As art imitating life imitating art, it was ideal. His film, DON’T THINK TWICE, follows an improv troupe whose members are about to be thrust into the next stage… Read More »