Jan
28
In a manner befitting the style of director Alexander Payne, The Descendants walks the wire between heartbreak and humor with absolute ease. Payne creates a film that so delicately (and impossibly) embodies contradictory sides: soap opera-like drama with (sometimes stoner) comedy, metaphors of life without all the cheesy implications and a stereotypically dysfunctional family with …
Jan
25
Image Credit: Merie Wallace Six out of the nine Best Picture Academy Award nominees announced this morning were based on books: Hugo, War Horse, Moneyball, The Descendants, The Help, and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Between now and the ceremony on Feb. 26, Shelf Life will read or re-read each of these books, in addition …
Recent Comments