Interview: Bridget Everett on interweaving grief and humor, those pillows, and getting Kansas right in season 2 of ‘Somebody Somewhere’ [VIDEO]
Airing after HBO’s now-wrapped megahits Succession and Barry on Sunday nights this past spring, Somebody Somewhere is something much subtler and more relaxed, a genuine and endearing story of two adult... Read More
Abe Friedtanzer
Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards since he was allowed to stay up late enough to watch them. He has attended numerous film festivals including Sundance and SXSW, and was on a series of road trips across the United States with his wife, Arielle, which he hopes to resume when travel is safe again. You can also find him at YouTube at @movieswithabe and Instagram at @movieswithabe.
‘Somebody Somewhere’ season 2 review: A delightful delicacy anybody anywhere can enjoy
A show’s title can communicate a great deal about its content, and Somebody Somewhere does that exceptionally well. It’s a straightforward story of one person... Read More
‘Blindspotting’ season 2 review: Reality and imagination collide in a thoughtful probe of family, race, and the prison system
The decision to take the 2018 Sundance hit Blindspotting and spin off a supporting character into her own TV series, and not starring Daveed Diggs,... Read More
‘Wild Life’ review: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin explore love and conservationism in effective climate change doc | SXSW
People have been sounding the alarm for years on climate change, and it’s often hard to figure out what to do to help prevent or... Read More
‘Cora Bora’ review: Megan Stalter is a captivating, comedic wrecking ball in Hannah Pearl Utt’s hilarious and poignant comedy | SXSW
The music that Cora (Megan Stalter) plays isn’t particularly pleasant on the ears. With lyrics like “get out of my house” and “dreams are stupid... Read More
‘If You Were the Last’ review: Zoë Chao and Anthony Mackie give gravity some levity as stranded astronauts in an out-of-this-world comedy | SXSW
When do you really know that the world is ending, and it’s okay to do something completely out of character with irreversible consequences? There’s no... Read More
‘I Used to Be Funny’ review: Rachel Sennott is spectacular in Ally Pankiw’s confrontation of comedy and trauma | SXSW
How do comedians deal with PTSD? Typically, it’s to tell jokes to mask or subvert the trauma, but that doesn’t necessarily make the pain go... Read More
‘National Anthem’ review: Luke Gilford explores the wondrous, inviting world of America’s queer rodeo | SXSW
Midway through National Anthem, Dylan (Charlie Plummer) asks Sky (Eve Lindley) why she’s interested in him, self-proclaiming that he’s boring. “I don’t think you’re boring,”... Read More
‘Landscape with Invisible Hand’ review: Cory Finley’s creative near-future alien invasion comedy has plenty to say about humanity | Sundance
What if aliens invaded and weren’t exactly hostile, but just condescending? The unique vision of Landscape with Invisible Hand imagines a world in which the... Read More
‘Flora and Son’ review: John Carney delivers another masterful music movie with a spectacular Eve Hewson | Sundance
Anyone can decide to become a musician. That doesn’t mean they’re set for success, but measuring that definition is different for everyone. Writer-director John Carney,... Read More
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