About the film (courtesy of Searchlight Pictures): A woman ( Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn. Nightbitch, based on the novel by Rachel Yoder, is a film that sinks its teeth into the primal anxieties of motherhood and doesn’t let go. It’s …
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Time for a Reel DEAR EVAN HANSEN review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. The disclaimer that I must make …
Time for a Reel VICE review
While doing some mindless channel surfing this extended holiday weekend, I stumbled upon Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) and The Other Guys (2010). My first thought went to how funny and entertaining Will Farrell was in each of these movies. Then I started to think about how funny of an actor he …