Just in time for Valentine's Day (okay maybe almost twenty years later but still) we pick up MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, the first film adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel (YOU'RE WELCOME) starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright and Paul Newman. Was this the peak of the Cinematic Sparks Universe or perhaps one of our hosts would argue for guilty pleasure SAFE HAVEN? Meanwhile your other host laments that these films should even be approached as guilty pleasures, which allows all of us to swoon over the chance to see Mr. Newman deal out some advice in the ways of love. Happy Valentine's Day and continue to share the love by following us at the links below:
No contemporary filmmaker has chronicled the messy human experience with the eye and ear of a comedic cultural anthropologist like JUDD APATOW. Hits as varied as those he’s directed, like Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and those he’s produced, like Superbad and Bridesmaids, are all unified by their honest, unflinching, comic look at how complicated it is to grow up in the modern world. Apatow has also built a history of helping break distinctive new comedy voices into the mainstream, from Seth Rogen to Lena Dunham, among many others. Now, in his fifth feature film as a director, Apatow again brings a portrait of an unforgettable character, and a portrayal by a breakout new comedy star, together in a film written by and starring AMY SCHUMER (TV’s Inside Amy Schumer) as a woman who lives her life without apologies, even when maybe she should apologize. U n d o u b t e d ly, S c h u m e r h a s b e e n s t e a d i ly achieving cultural notoriety of her own. From her bruta
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