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In Noah Baumbach’s film Jay Kelly, George Clooney plays an aging movie-star (the titular Jay Kelly) looking back on his life and finding himself lonely and regretful about many of his life choices, while Adam Sandler plays his manager Ron, who has spent much of his adult life ta

Timothée Chalamet commands the screen in Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie’s tense yarn about a fast-talking huckster who thinks he’s God’s gift to the world.  It’s 1952; Marty Mauser is an incredibly talented table tennis player who dreams of fame and fortune, and he uses his abil

There have been a number of interesting trailers released recently (and I bet a bunch more are coming this weekend during the Super Bowl!) — let’s dive in! Since my last news post, Marvel has released all four Avengers: Doomsday teasers.  Here’s the fourth, with the

Ethan Hawke stars in Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart, the real-life lyricist who wrote “The Lady is a Tramp,” “My Funny Valentine,” and many other songs, including “Blue Moon”, from which this movie draws its title.  Mr. Hart spent years collaborating wit

After my third (or fourth?) rewatch of Martin Scorsese’s magnificent 2021 HBO mini-series Pretend It’s a City, spotlighting his friend Fran Lebowitz, I decided the time had finally come to watch Public Speaking, the documentary movie about Ms. Lebowitz that Mr. Scorsese ha