EVERY MOVIE HAS A LESSON

by Don Shanahan

Posts tagged Alison Brie

To a degree, Somebody I Used to Know carries a bit of the same vein of misaligned praise and creativity. We have two lifelong Southern Californians (Franco of Palo Alto and Brie of Hollywood) pretending to lay out a pre-midlife crisis scenario in a setting far from their own. That said, there is a range of characters and grasp of relatable poignancy in the film coming from David and Alison that show how setting matters little when you have interesting people.

2023, 3 STARS, Independent Film, MOVIE REVIEW, StreamingDon ShanahanFebruary 9, 2023Somebody I Used To Know, Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Danny Pudi, Jay Ellis, Haley Joel Osment, Romantic comediesComment

MOVIE REVIEW: The Little Hours

The phrase “nuns behaving badly” sounds like a bad porno title or a silly hashtag. Alas, that’s the low-hanging fruit and chicanery afoot in The Little Hours. Tracing inspiration to a yarn from one of Giovanni Boccaccio’s collected 14th century novellas in The Decameron, the new ensemble film from Jeff Baena wraps it religious habit up with wit, erotica, and practical jokes from Italian prose translated into a modern vernacular.