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For a few moments near the beginning of Betty Thomas’s 28 Days (written by Susannah Grant) you might almost begin to think that the comic drunk, that staple of 1950s humor who has now almost completely disappeared from the cultural landscape, was making a comeback. Nowadays, of course, we tend to think that laughing at…
Like the earlier films by Nicole Holofcener this is witty and amusing and offers much for our enjoyment but, also like them, it evinces a feminism that can be slightly didactic
What? You didn’t know that Nixon was assassinated? You must not have been paying attention to the Hollywood fantasy-factory
A beautiful, funny, heart-breaking story of Kurdish refugee children in Iraq on the eve of the American invasion
OK, so old people can be as sexually licentious as young and attractive ones. Does this mean that we want to watch them doing it?