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Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Glen Powell | Jack Black | Josh Wiggins | Lee Eddy | Zachary Levi
Chris says: “Nostalgia is tricky to pull off–you can all too easily drown in reactionary sentiment or self-importance while going on about the way things used to be. Fortunately, Richard Linklater, who proved he could conjure nostalgia with affection but
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Grant James | Jack Black | Matthew McConaughey | Rick Dial | Shirley MacLaine
Chris says: “This ripped-from-the-headlines tale of a meek funeral director who murders a wealthy, irascible widow is meant to play like ‘Midnight in the garden of small town east Texas’. While Austinite Richard Linklater is the right director for the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Danny Glover | Jack Black | Mia Farrow | Mos Def
Carolyn says: “Moderately interesting plot to experiment with some crazy special effects. 3 cats”
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Jack Black | Jennifer Jason Leigh | John Turturro | Nicole Kidman | Zane Pais
Michael says: “Stories about dysfunctional families often make for great comedic and dramatic fodder, both in novels and in films. Noah Baumbach was successful mining this territory in 2005’s THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, but while I enjoyed that film,
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Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Adam Pascal | Jack Black | Lucas Papaelias | Mike White
Diane says: “SCHOOL OF ROCK is the film that TO BE AND TO HAVE wanted to be! Great opp. to admire Mike White’s eyelashes once again. Only way this movie could have been improved would be to have shot it
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bob Odenkirk
Starring: Annabelle Gurwitch | David Cross | Jack Black | Matt Price | Maura Tierney | Michael Blieden | Stephanie Courtney
Chris says: “I’m so glad I managed to see this film before it left the Coolidge yesterday; MELVIN GOES TO DINNER is a smart, entertaining low budget indie about four thirtysomethings who unexpectedly meet up for dinner. Their conversations are
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