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Michael Shannon and Hilary Swank’s What They Had: An Alzheimer’s Story That’s Both Heartbreaking and … Funny

Introducing her exquisite debut feature, What They Had, at Sundance, the writer-director Elizabeth Chomko addressed the movie’s initiating event — a woman with Alzheimer’s reaching the last-but-one stage, number six — only obliquely. Chomko painted a larger picture.“Memory,” she said, “is a gift we’re given. I don’t want to take … More » Source: Ent […]

Logan’s Oscar Nomination Is a Significant Breakthrough

Great screenplays are often defined by how much they can do with short, unflashy beats of dialogue. But that fact is typically lost on most superhero screenwriters, who tend to steer their scripts toward meandering monologues about heroism, implausible one-liners, and bombastic arguments about how to avert impending apocalypses. Not … More » Source: Ent […]

Steven Soderbergh’s Mosaic Is an Intriguing Puzzle, But Your Patience With It May Vary

In Mosaic, the Steven Soderbergh–directed limited series about the events leading up to and following the murder of a children’s author, practically every character possesses pieces of a puzzle they aren’t quite sure how to put together. The guiding two-part question of this intriguing, sometimes frustrating mystery is, what did … More » Source: Ent […]