Movie Column: A Rom-Com’s Portrayal of Mental Illness

I knew from the scene in Silver Linings Playbook’s trailer—featuring Pat (Bradley Cooper) waking his parents up at four in the morning in a shouting fit because the ending of Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms was too sad—that this movie would have a predictable feel-good ending. Seconds later in the trailer,

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Movie Column: Cloud Atlas Reflects Human Desire for Connection

Cloud Atlas is a sextet; six stories with completely different genres, tones and content come together as a single unit. There is the 1849 seafaring and runaway slave adventure narrative, the 1936 tale of artistic ambition and damning reputation, the 1973 thriller in which a journalist takes on a nuclear

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Movie Column: Seven Psychopaths

Irish playwright-turned-screenwriter Martin McDonagh (of In Bruges fame and with several Broadway hits to his credit) wrote and directed Seven Psychopaths, which came out in theaters last weekend. The main character of Seven Psychopaths is a creatively blocked Irishman named Martin Faranan trying to write a screenplay called, you guessed

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