Release date: 2011Friday Night Lights accomplishes something that few television dramas are able to do: It betters the 2004 film (starring Billy Bob Thornton) on which the series is based. Set in Dillon, Texas, where football–even on the high school level–is everything, Friday Night Lights is a compelling drama with a football subplot. Poignantly and […]
Sideways
Struggling novelist and wine connoisseur Miles (Paul Giamatti) takes his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) on a wine-tasting tour of California vineyards for a kind of extended bachelor party. Almost immediately, Jack’s insatiable need to sow some wild oats before his marriage leads them in into double-dates with a rambunctious wine pourer (Sandra Oh) […]
Cafe Society
Woody Allen’s latest European-styled film actually takes place in Hollywood and New York City. Playing the role he usually writes for himself is Steve Carell and Jesse Eisenberg. Carell plays Hollywood super-agent, Phil Sterns. No, he doesn’t have any superpowers but he knows everybody in town and is a big deal. He gets a call […]
Mystic Pizza
A sweet and sassy comedy about the bonds of sisterhood, Mystic Pizza offers the opportunity to see some solid young actors early in their careers. Three sisters of blue-collar Portuguese descent work in a pizzeria in the coastal town of Mystic, Connecticut. Each has her own unique romantic entanglements. One is the fast girl in […]
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