Spoiler Scale (How spoilery is this article on a scale of 1 to 10?): 3 Some Velvet Morning (presumably no relation to the band) is composed entirely of a single conversation between an escort, Velvet (Alice Eve), and her former john, Fred (Stanley Tucci), who has left his wife and shown up with his bags at her apartment. Initially, the ... Read More »
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Feed SubscriptionHow Dark Should a Dark Comedy Be?: Your Friends & Neighbors / Happiness (1998)
Spoiler Scale (How spoilery is this article on a scale of 1 to 10?): 3 Writers/directors Neil LaBute and Todd Solondz both had auspicious beginnings in the fertile ground of indie cinema in the 1990s – right before a wave of political correctness swept over American filmmaking on 9/11. And in my opinion, in 1998, both filmmakers assembled stellar ... Read More »