Amanda Peet – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

FANTASY LIFE – Review by T. J. Callahan

March 31, 2026April 5, 2026 T. J. Callahan alessandro nivola, Amanda Peet, Andrea Martin, Bob Balaban, Fantasy Life, Holland Taylor, Judd Hirsch, Matthew Shear

Fantasy Life is about manifesting happiness and the effort it takes to get there. It’s about family dynamics amidst a mainstream look at wrestling with mental health issues. It’s about privilege and guilt. The film, which won accolades at SXSW, is also very down to earth, so to speak, in its dialogue with sex talk at the family dinner table and bodily function assessments in the boudoir as we follow these angst ridden characters through four seasons of their lives.

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YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS – Review by Susan Granger

June 2, 2025June 1, 2025 Susan Granger Amanda Peet, Apple TV+, Jon Hamm, Mark Tallman, Your Friends and Neighbors

Jon Hamm’s new, nine-episode series Your Friends and Neighbors could be subtitled Lifestyles of the Rich and Miserable. As the dark crime caper begins, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm) is a charming-if-cynical hedge fund executive who gets fired. Adding insult to injury, his wife is having an affair with his best-friend, an NBA legend who has, literally, moved into Coop’s former McMansion. Disgraced and divorced, aspirational Coop drives around the elite, insulated suburb known as Westmont Village, gazing at his affluent neighbors’ ostentatious display of wealth. That’s when he decides to become a thief.

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THE CHAIR – Review by Susan Granger

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Susan Granger Amanda Peet, Annie Julia Wyman, jay duplass, Nana Mensah, netflix, sandra oh, series, The Chair

This ‘Back to School’ month is the perfect time for Netflix’s new college-set series The Chair, starring Sandra Oh (Killing Eve, Grey’s Anatomy) as Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim, the first female head of the English department at (fictional) Pembroke University. A prestigious “lower-tier Ivy,” Pembroke has always favored its rich, white students and faculty, so the newly elected Chair faces not only gender prejudice but also racial bias. A single mother, she’s raising an adopted daughter, Ju-Ju (Everly Carganilla), with the help of her widowed, Korean-speaking father (Lee Ji-Yong).

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THE CHAIR – Review by Martha K Baker

August 24, 2021August 28, 2021 Martha K. Baker (Archived Contributor) Amanda Peet, Annie Wyman, sandra oh, The Chair

In The Chair, Amanda Peet and Annie Wyman created not only a rom-com but also a horror show. While a cord of romance threads through the story and humor tickles its plot, the horror closes in on reality. The Chair brings tears of joy and fear as it recognizes the ardor of literature in modern campus life amid the odor of cancelation.