Tag: Paul Giamatti

Holdovers–No Home for the Holidays

Written by Diana Paul on August 4, 2024. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound.

Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is a film in the style of “Dead Poets Society”. Set in a New England prep school, Barton Preparatory, sometime in the 1970s, the predominantly white students dominate what the school administration can do. A curmudgeonly, lonely instructor, Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), draws the...

“Love and Mercy”– Mostly “Good Vibrations”

Written by diana on July 12, 2015. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on “Love and Mercy”– Mostly “Good Vibrations”

If you remember the 1960’s classic album “Pet Sounds” by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, there is a good chance you will enjoy the movie “Love and Mercy”. In an unusual music biopic of Brian Wilson, “Love and Mercy” structures his life through two highly acclaimed actors, Paul Dano and John Cusack, playing Brian the younger and...

“The Ides of March”–Beware, Beware!

Written by diana on October 18, 2011. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on “The Ides of March”–Beware, Beware!

Is it possible for any political candidate to win and yet remain true to his or her original values? Movies about dirty politics such as “Wag the Dog”, “All the President’s Men”, “The Manchurian Candidate”, “Primary Colors”, “Bob Roberts” and “The Candidate” (to...

Tag: Paul Giamatti

Holdovers–No Home for the Holidays

“Love and Mercy”– Mostly “Good Vibrations”

“The Ides of March”–Beware, Beware!

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