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Tag: jane fonda

reactions, screenings, TIFF

YOUTH plays TIFF 2015

In a good friendship, you only tell each other the good things…so here’s a few good things about a flawed film.

Posted on September 13, 2015September 16, 2015
reviews

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU

They say that you can’t go home again. Maybe they should say that you shouldn’t go home again.

Posted on September 29, 2014October 5, 2014
dvd doubleback

LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER

What to do when something moving and nuanced is counterweighted with heavy-handedness and caricature?

Posted on January 5, 2014December 11, 2014

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