Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope, the most driven and optimistic civil servant on TV, in this hilarious comedy of incompetence, office politics and petty turf wars in municipal government and small town bureaucracy.
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Woody Allen’s ‘Café Society’ on Amazon Prime
Woody Allen’s career may be erratic but it’s a pleasure to note that Café Society (2016), while well short of masterpiece, is Allen in fine form. Set in 1930s Hollywood, where East Coast kid Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg) flees from the family jewelry business in search of excitement, and New York City, where he returns after […]
‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ on Amazon Prime
“I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else’s life,” states an aged but still sharp and tough Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) in Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012). Neither does this colorful biopic, an HBO original movie about their passionate and tumultuous relationship (both romantic and professional), directed by Philip Kaufman, a filmmaker fascinated […]