Tag: Mark Duplass
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Jazzy, a film about BFFs and growing up
Jazzy looks at girlhood, best friends, and growing up in a different way. We see the girls from age seven up to about 13 in the film. They are both Lakota tribal members living in a trailer park in a small town in North Dakota.
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Good American Family dramatizes a true story
Good American Family tells the Natalia Grace story from several viewpoints. The truth is subjective, depending on who is telling the story. The series starring Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass makes no judgements about which version is accurate, but it does lay out the facts.
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Penelope review: a girl goes hiking and stays gone
Penelope is different. It’s the kind of different that makes you grateful that independent creators are still getting things made. Penelope was directed by Mel Eslyn who created and wrote it with Mark Duplass.
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Language Lessons, human connection via video
Language Lessons is a two-hander with Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass as strangers involved in long distance Spanish lessons. He’s a student in California, she’s the teacher in Costa Rica. Their conversations lead to a friendship.
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7 Days, an early COVID lockdown story
7 Days from the Duplass Brothers is about two people on a first date who get stuck together when the first COVID lockdown hits. It was funny and charming and often realistic feeling. It had all the quirkiness you associate with the Duplass brothers.
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Review: Somebody Somewhere, the first few episodes of season 1
Somebody Somewhere is a half-hour show on HBO Max. I wouldn’t call it a comedy. It’s about a 40ish woman in Kansas who still hasn’t figured out her life or where she fits in the world.
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Calls is a different kind of sci-fi mystery
Calls is a series of short episodes that are versions of phone calls. You never see anyone’s face, it’s all voice work and a visually engaging screensaver type representation of words, connections, and emotions. It’s streaming on Apple TV+.
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Review: Duck Butter
Duck Butter is billed as a comedy, drama, romance. It’s only one of those things – a drama. It’s about an experimental 24 hours Naima (Alia Shawkat) spent with Sergio (Laia Costa) and how these two damaged women reacted to the intense relationship. There are spoilers ahead.
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Review: Goliath, season 2
Goliath, season 2, is a full on murder mystery with Billy Bob Thornton playing the semi-drunken investigator/lawyer with a heart of gold who tries to spring an innocent kid from jail.
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Watch This: Trailer for Outside In
Outside In is from the minds of writers Jay Duplass and Lynn Shelton. Jay Duplass stars with Edie Falco and Lynn Shelton directs. It’s about an ex-con who gets out of prison and forms an intense bond with his former high school teacher.