“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” – it hurts everyone [MOVIE REVIEW]
“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” is surely one of the best and most moving documentaries in recent years. Director Chad Freidrichs takes a long and necessary look at the modernist housing project designed to take residents out of rat-infested tenements and put them in clean, modern high rises designed to provide shelter, succor and dignity to the […]
“The Five-Year Engagement” is totally engaging [MOVIE REVIEW]
“The Five-Year Engagement” is a pre-wedding present from Nicholas Stoller (director/co-writer) and Jason Segal (co-writer/star), the duo responsible for “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and the latest Muppet movie. Clever, sharp, warm-hearted without cloying sentimentality, “The Five-Year Engagement” plots the relationship of Violet, whose dream of an academic career in her chosen field, social psychology, run smack […]