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Noah Baumbach explores the trouble of being 45 and 25 in ‘While We’re Young’
Noah Baumbach’s last few films have been about protagonists doing nothing, or at least trying to give the illusion of doing something. Ben Stiller’s Greenberg said as much, even while slowly building a doghouse for his brother. Greta Gerwig’s Frances Halloway was a professional dancer who didn’t dance to the point that it made her “undateable”. Baumbach’s latest film While We’re Young is about yet another form of stagnation: middle age. A married couple of forty-somethings encounter a married couple of twenty-somethings, and that illusion that they’re doing everything they’re meant to be doing at this age quickly fades away. More
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Watch the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s ‘While We’re Young’
Following some warm praise by SOS critics at both this year’s Toronto Film Festival and New York Film Festival, Noah Baumbach reteams with his Greenberg star Ben Stiller and Frances Ha‘s Adam Driver for his latest film While We’re Young. Stiller stars as a filmmaker who befriends a pair of 20-something hipsters (a hilarious looking […] More
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‘Pan’, Joe Wright’s take on the iconic character, gets its first trailer
Over the years, the tale of Peter Pan has seen numerous film and television adaptations, as J.M Barrie’s story of the inhabitants of Neverland can be seen from movies as old as 1924’s Peter Pan to NBC’s upcoming telecast Peter Pan Live! Now director Joe Wright is set to add his own spin to the story. […] More
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NYFF 2014: ‘While We’re Young’ – The Young and the Old and the Restless
At age 45, it feels like writer-director Noah Baumbach is getting soft. Best known for his caustic tragicomedies like Kicking and Screaming, The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, and Margot at the Wedding, he took a turn in tone for his 2012 feature Frances Ha, which starred and was co-written by Greta Gerwig. So, though the warmth of that film might surprise someone familiar with his work, that it’s a collaboration with Gerwig explains at least part of that tone. While We’re Young, though, Baumbach’s newest film which premiered at TIFF this year and made a surprise appearance at the New York Film Festival, manages to carry that affection. It’s hard to top Frances Ha, but his newest is pleasant and impressive all the same. More
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TIFF 2014: Adam Driver dominates Noah Baumbach’s ‘While We’re Young’ and Saverio Costanzo’s ‘Hungry Hearts’
Once again, Noah Baumbach’s taken to contemporary twenty-something culture. With Frances Ha he painted an apt portrait of a meandering young woman struggling to identify herself in a sea of expectation and pressure. Now, the gloves are off, as Baumbach zeroes in on the terrible and vaguely infectious character traits of the Me Generation. Narcissism and pretention are the order of the day, and we’re not talking about flippantly calling your ‘frenemy’ a narcissist: actual, clinical narcissism. More
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‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ has its shortcomings, but is far from a disaster
Seth MacFarlane has a dirty mind. He tells dirty jokes in occasionally clever, often crude ways, and without remorse. With Family Guy, he exhibits the full extent of his talents in thirty-minute stints to great effect. On the big screen, however, he may need someone to wrangle him in. While Ted (2012) was incredibly entertaining, it occasionally found itself slowing to a crawl. MacFarlane’s latest, A Million Ways to Die in the West, finds itself suffering a similar fate. Though highly entertaining, the film runs too long, leaves many of its characters in the lurch, and doesn’t give nearly enough screen time to its talented roster of actors. More
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‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ a fun and wild Western-comedy from Seth MacFarlane
A Million Ways to Die in the West Written by Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild Directed by Seth MacFarlane USA, 2014 In his seemingly never-ending quest to provide meaty satire and goofing on many things in real life, Seth MacFarlane knows no bounds. With his mega-popular Family Guy and 2012’s Ted, he certainly […] More
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‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’, from Seth MacFarlane, releases its first red-band trailer
While comedian Seth MacFarlane gained some prominence as a writer for popular cartoons Johnny Bravo and Dexter’s Laboratory, the success of his created shows Family Guy and American Dad brought him to the attention of mainstream audiences. Parlaying that success to the big screen by directing and co-writing 2012’s Ted, many fans were curious to see […] More
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‘Lovelace’, the Amanda Seyfried starring biopic, releases its first trailer
Actress Amanda Seyfried rose to prominence in two vastly different supporting roles, that of Karen Smith in Mean Girls and Lilly Kane in Veronica Mars. Her increasing profile has led to bigger roles, from the tv show Big Love to movies such as Red Riding Hood, Les Miserables, and Chloe. Many fans were thus interested […] More
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‘Epic’ a decidedly derivative, if colorful, new animated film
We are living in a golden age of animation, yet so many people working at Hollywood’s studio-funded animation companies are content working in the realm of the familiar. Too frequently, new mainstream animated films are like a big bowl of soup, with countless flavors that you’ve tasted before tweaked only slightly to not be total carbon copies of something bigger and often better. More
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‘The End of Love’, actor Mark Webber’s filmmaking debut, gets its first official trailer
Actor Mark Webber has carved a name for himself in recent years, perhaps most recognizable as Stephen Stills, the lead singer of Sex Bob-omb in the 2010 movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. However, in the midst of his acting career, Webber has been busy writing and directing a film of his own over the […] More
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‘Les Misérables’ a somewhat successful, but inappropriately intimate adaptation
Les Misérables Directed by Tom Hooper Written by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer United Kingdom, 2012 At some point in cinema history, it became bad form to make movie musicals without being self-aware or self-referential. The concern must spring from the perceived stumbling block people have when they watch musicals, […] More
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