The famous last line of Gatsby captures the futility of escaping the past, but it takes a time travel movie to recognize the equal problem of turning the boat around to confront it. Safety Not Guaranteed takes a real-life classified ad as its point of departure and out of it, builds a DeLorean fueled by nostalgia, regret and shame. Continue reading “It’s Monday Movies’ Hope That If You’re Watching This Video, Something Incredible Has Happened”
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Monday Movies Was Meant to Have a Business Meeting. With Destiny.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home is the fourth feature outing of Jay and Mark Duplass. Their first, The Puffy Chair, helped define the “mumblecore” genre, along with the early work of Joe Swanberg and Andrew Bujalski. Their second, Baghead, a mumblecore-horror hybrid with a metacommentary on filmmaking, indicated a lively impatience with their creation, demonstrating a consistency that showed they knew their strengths in addition to an openness to teaching themselves new tricks. After that they made Cyrus, about which I know little other than that it starred Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei, and while indie was not quite a micro-budget film. (Of those, I saw only Baghead, which I liked a lot.) Continue reading “Monday Movies Was Meant to Have a Business Meeting. With Destiny.”
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