Noah Baumbach’s GREENBERG starring Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig is an amusing look at an aging misanthrope. It’s a leap forward for Baumbach, a career high for Stiller and proof that Gerwig is ready for the big time.
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If you know me, you’ll understand intuitively why a movie about a bitter, 40-something, uncomfortable in his own skin misanthrope in Los Angeles who doesn’t really know what he wants to do with himself would be appealing. Having said that, the original trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg starring Ben Stiller left me pretty cold. Maybe [...]
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Apple has the trailer for Greenberg, the latest from Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding). Ben Stiller plays a man approaching middle age who is in between jobs and has no clear idea of what he wants to do next. Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Chris Messina [...]
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It’s late so I’ll spare you the story of the drunk guy form Michigan at the Arclight bar who tried to share the secret of The Secret with me (“I’m not gay but you have amazing, mystical green eyes.” Wah??!) and I’ll pass up the trailers to get right to the weekend’s movies.
LiC’s first rule [...]
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Penelope Cruz is neither Vicky nor Cristina in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
You can almost feel summer winding down and the fall movie season arriving, can’t you? Here’s what’s on tap this weekend:
Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Woody Allen’s tale of two American women, the sensible one (Rebecca Hall) and the adventurous one (Scarlett Johansson), who travel to Barcelona [...]
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Michael Cieply reports in the New York Times that several groups representing people with disabilities are expected to announce a boycott of the new comedy Tropic Thunder as early as Monday. At issue is the frequent use of the word “retard” in the film, a Hollywood satire about the filming of a war picture.
Special Olympics [...]
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