You’ll never look at a ping pong ball the same way again.
Back to Basics – MANHATTAN
The city Woody Allen wrote about no longer exists. It has been gentrified, homogenized, sanitized, and Disneyfied. At one point in the film while watching a historic building get gutted, Isaac says that the city is really changing. Well if he thought that was change, I wonder what he’d even recognize the city to come sixteen years later.
IT’S COMPLICATED
No matter how much time passes or how well you know the other person, love never gets less complicated.
UP IN THE AIR
In hard times like these, sometimes it’s not always about survival.
THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Wes still has daddy issues, but now they’re a bit more animated.
WHIP IT
To get off the ground in any of life’s adventures, we need to depend on a team. Be they family, friends, or tattooed freaks, few of us can get anywhere alone.
THE INFORMANT!
Director Steven Soderbergh has been following a “one for them / one for me” pattern for quite some time with his work. I don’t always care much for his “ones for me”, but when he comes back with “ones for them” as good as this, it makes it hard to carry a grudge.