Movie Review: Madeline’s Madeline is Undeniably Audacious Yet Inescapably Frustrating

Josephine Decker had to have known what she was doing when she named the protagonist of her latest film Madeline, a homophone of the small French sponge cake central to Marcel Proust’s sprawling modernist novel In Search of Lost Time. Wherein,…

TV Throwback Review: Party Down (1×09) “James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion”

There is a moment in “James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion” in which Lizzy Caplan’s performance reaches heights traditionally associated with prestige dramas or higher-brow sitcoms like [early seasons of] The Office. It’s an absolutely devastating dramatic moment, and both…