The feel good comedy of a smart-mouthed high-school goofball who finds herself pregnant became the success story of 2007 and won an Oscar for screenwriter Diablo Cody.
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‘To Rome with Love’ on Amazon Prime
To Rome with Love (2012) takes Woody Allen’s continental road show to Italy for a quartet of stories – really, more like extended skits – with an international cast. Jesse Eisenberg ignores advice from his older self (Alec Baldwin) when his relationship with Greta Gerwig is complicated by the emotionally ping-ponging Ellen Page in the […]
‘My Life as a Zucchini’ – Oscar-nominated animation from France on Netflix
The Academy Award-nominated animated feature My Life as a Zucchini (France, 2016) uses stop-motion animation to tell the bitter-sweet story of an imaginative, vulnerable boy nicknamed Zucchini who is orphaned after the death of his abusive, alcoholic mother and sent to a foster home. But while it is set in France (the view from Zucchini’s […]