Showing posts with label Amy Poehler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amy Poehler. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2015

Inside Out





The best sequence in the Pixar oeuvre is the montage of Carl and Ellie’s life together early in “Up,” four wordless minutes (even the music grows ever quieter) of brilliantly curated moments that can reduce the most hulking brute to mush. 

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Love is Strange, Are You Here

Love is Strange
Are You Here







Too much Chopin, not enough substance in the sleepy, white-people-problems movie "Love is Strange," starring John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as Ben and George, a Manhattan couple of forty years who finally tie the knot.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

A.C.O.D.





That the terribly titled "A.C.O.D." (which stands for adult children of divorce) merits even the mildest recommendation is tribute to the comic genius of Catherine O'Hara and especially Richard Jenkins.