Laura Linney–whom we think of as a certain kind of actress–says she’s the happiest she’s ever been. (Definitely a good thing; see: The Nanny Diaries, The Squid and the Whale, The Truman Show, et cetera ad infinitum.) The 43-year-old actress’ new movie The Savages, directed by Tamara Jenkins and costarring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Read More
THE SAVAGES
Running Time 115 minutes
Written and directed by Tamara Jenkins
Starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman
In The Savages, a perfectly modulated and devastatingly on-target film about the dreaded moment of truth when children are forced to face their parents’ mortality, sibling rivalry does not eventually graft into Read More
Robert Bierman’s A Merry War , based on George Orwell’s 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying , turns out to be a labor of love that fails to capture the paradoxes and peculiarities of Orwell’s uncannily prophetic vision. Even so, Mr. Bierman and screenwriter Alan Plater are to be commended for making the effort at Read More
