Ever since his cultural reemergence as Michael Bluth, the comparatively sane middle sibling in Arrested Development‘s otherwise delusional, batshit-crazy Bluth clan, Jason Bateman has been cast in a number of roles that are rather similar to Michael—the put-upon straight man fighting… Continue Reading
The comparisons are too inevitable not to address promptly, so let’s just put it out there: in many respects, Frances Ha is basically Lena Dunham’s Girls compressed into a feature-length black & white narrative film. It tells the story of… Continue Reading
The Place Beyond the Pines is a great big sprawling man-opera from acclaimed writer/director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine). Epic and ambitious, it is a deeply emotional saga with three distinct acts. In the first, we meet Luke (Ryan Gosling in… Continue Reading
Any fan of Twilight will tell you that author Stephenie Meyer lives for a good love triangle. After creating the human-vampire-werewolf triad that defined romance for an entire generation and introduced the concept of “teams” to affairs of the heart… Continue Reading
