28 July
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NERVE Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Starring: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Miles Heizer, Juliette Lewis I feel old. Those were some of the very first thoughts I had while watching Nerve. The thing to keep in mind is that I’m only in my thirties, which provides an unsettling realization in the generational gap between myself and the kids in this movie. Emma Roberts is playing significantly younger as high school senior Venus “Vee” Delmonico. She’s trying to stay focused on her future and if she should attend Cal Arts in the fall. She’s feeling some pressure to stay home with her mom (theRead More →

10 January
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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Director: John Wells Starring: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Dermot Mulroney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Shepard Did you have some family drama over the holidays? People acting crazy around the dinner table? Just wait until you meet the Weston family. Your family will seem a whole heck of a lot more normal after you spend a few hours with the Westons. Patriarch Beverly (Shepard) is an alcoholic and former poet who can no longer tolerate his marriage to Violet (Streep). After thirty plus years and three daughters, the love they once hadRead More →

10 May
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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Director: John Wells Starring: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Ewan McGregor, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper, Sam Shepard, Margo Martindale, Benedict Cumberbatch When I first heard that Goddess Meryl Streep had been cast as Violet, the pill-popping matriarch of the Weston family, I thought of no one better that could play that role for the big screen adaptation of the Tracy Letts play. After Violet’s husband Beverly (Shepard) goes missing, the whole family gathers together in the house they grew up in order to find him. To call this family dynamic dysfunctional would be an understatement. Movies adapted from stageRead More →