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What's gutsy is that writer-director Jason Reitman (adapting Walter Kirn's novel) is springing a movie about a toxic social problem at a time when more than a tenth of the workforce is out of a job. Moreover, Reitman hired a few dozen unemployed nonactors to play the parts of staffers who get the hook. These folks aren't performing; they're bleeding on camera. (See pictures "Glitz and Glamour at the Venice Film Festival...
...Writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi wants you to believe that everything he shows you that's not reenacted by professionals really happened, and is documented by the omnipresent video cameras. It's a device used far more successfully in Paranormal Activity, which had the added benefit of being a good movie. The real touchstones here are the "documentaries" about psychic phenomena on the "History" Channel, and of the Alien Autopsy fraudumentary that Fox ran a few times to high ratings in 1995. All of these mix reenactments with grainy, blurry purportedly true footage, and score neither as science nor as entertainment...
Admittedly, adolescence was and is awkward, full of poor fashion choices and bad school lunches, but even the diverse student body of Harvard—with their wealth of obscure interests and experiences—would probably find this description of their teen years a bit far-fetched. Though writer-director Jared Hess aims once more for the brand of oddball humor you might expect from previous films “Napoleon Dynamite” and “Nacho Libre,” the quirky characters of his new movie, “Gentlemen Broncos,” still...
...Writer-director Katherine Dieckmann has supplied a simple narrative thread familiar to all mothers: multitasking. This means that if you're already a mother, watching Motherhood is a little like spending a bad day with your most self-involved self. On this day, Eliza must shop for and give a birthday party for her daughter Clara, who is turning 6, care for her toddler (who, Eliza should be grateful, is always nodding off into a convenient nap) and also find the time to pen an essay about "What Motherhood Means to Me" for a contest she would like...
Motherhood didn’t quite work out for Uma Thurman when she was Quentin Tarantino’s yellow-suited Bride in “Kill Bill.” But in writer-director Katherine Dieckmann’s latest low-budget undertaking, Thurman finally gets a shot at The Bride’s fiercest unfulfilled dream: to give birth to and raise a child...