![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Madeline’s friend Celeste is dealing with an increasingly abusive husband, trying to hide her bruises and wounds when going out for coffee with friends. This moment sets off a series of conflicts between Renata and Madeline, who stands up for Jane. ![]() During pick up, the daughter of Renata Klein, a fellow power mom, accuses Jane’s son of choking her during class. On the first day of school, Madeline meets Jane, a single mom who has just moved to town. ![]() Madeline Mackenzie is a wealthy woman living in Monterrey, California where she spends her time shuttling her youngest daughter to school and playdates while helping produce a local production of Avenue Q. Continue reading “Movie Review – Lost in America” Author Seth Harris Posted on MaCategories 1980s, comedy 2 Comments on Movie Review – Lost in America TV Review – Big Little Lies Season 1 So the couple sets off, and it doesn’t take long before they encounter their first major obstacle in making their dreams a reality. David calculates they have a safety net in the form a nest egg of savings. Maybe it’ll be a farmhouse in Connecticut or lighthouse in Maine. In a moment of passion, he quits and convinces Linda to join him in “finding themselves.” The plan is to purchase a Winnebago and travel across the United States to the East Coast where they will buy a quaint little house. Everything changes when David fails to get an anticipated promotion at work. Written by Albert Brooks and Monica Johnsonĭavid and Linda are comfortably ensconced in their Southern California yuppie lifestyle with plans to buy a new home and a Mercedes-Benz. Continue reading “Movie Review – Frances Ha” Author Seth Harris Posted on MaCategories 2012, comedy, drama 5 Comments on Movie Review – Frances Ha Movie Review – Lost in America Never giving up her awkward and eclectic sensibilities, Frances keeps going, despite finding herself taking so many steps back, she ends up living in the dorms of her former college, pouring drinks for visiting donors. What follows are a series of vignettes with Frances bouncing from place to place, finding herself losing the progress she’d felt that she had made. Frances’ life is thrown into disarray when Sophie announces she’ll be moving to Tribeca for her dream apartment with someone else. She spends her days cavorting through the city with her best friend Sophie, enjoying their youth and lack of serious adult responsibilities. Continue reading “Movie Review – American Hustle” Author Seth Harris Posted on MaMaCategories 2013, annapurna, comedy, crime, drama 2 Comments on Movie Review – American Hustle Movie Review – Frances Haįrances is an apprentice in a New York dance company waiting for the day she’s given a place on the touring company. As expected the stakes crank up to a frenetic level and Irving finds himself deeper and more threatened than he ever wanted to be. DiMaso gets the pair embroiled with the mayor of Camden, New Jersey and on the ground floor of the mob-led rebuilding of Atlantic City. Irving’s life is complicated by his irresponsible wife Rosalyn whose son he has adopted which causes him to refuse to leave her. The two are running an art scam, and some loan sharking but get caught by FBI agent Richie DiMaso who coerces them into using their skills and connections to start taking down bigger fish. Irving Rosenfeld is a con artist in New Jersey who has found a soulmate and partner in Sydney Prosser. Inspired by the FBI’s Abscam operation to take down organized crime and later public corruption, American Hustle shakes off the procedural to tell a more stylistic and fictionalized version of the events. Continue reading “TV Review – Arrested Development Season 5 Part 2” It was some truly brilliant and inspiring television. The show was referencing an event that hadn’t happened yet, but these visual gags and pieces of dialogue would be heightened when fans went back to the episodes for a second time. The primary example being all the foreshadowing about hands in season 2 that led up to Buster’s hand being eaten by a loose seal. Arrested was the first show where I saw callbacks to jokes that hadn’t happened yet. There was a labyrinthine plot that rivaled Lost and inspired just as many rewatches. It combined elements of classic television like Soap and the banter of The Golden Girls (where Mitch Hurwitz cut his writing teeth). In 2003 Arrested Development debuted on Fox and was a breath of fresh air in the television landscape. Written by Mitchell Hurwitz, Hallie Cantor, Richard Day, Evan Mann, Gareth Reynolds, Chris Marrs, and Jim Vallely Arrested Development Season 5 Part 2 (Netflix) ![]()
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