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STUTZ – Review by Lois Alter Mark

December 20, 2022December 29, 2022 Lois Alter Mark documentaries, jonah hill, mental health, netflix, phil stutz, stutz

As an actor and comedian, Jonah Hill has taken on a variety of surprising roles over the past 18 years, portraying everything from a sex and booze-obsessed teen in Superbad to Peter Brand, the Oakland A’s assistant general manager, in Moneyball. But his most unexpected role yet just may be as producer, director and co-star of Stutz, a new Netflix documentary about his own psychiatrist, Phil Stutz. By making the world-renowned therapist’s wisdom and tools easily accessible to the world, he’s become a real-life mental health resource himself.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Lauren Anderson

December 31, 2021January 1, 2022 Lauren Anderson (Archived Contributor) adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

Don’t Look Up is a whirlwind of a movie. The Adam McKay film follows Kate Dibiasky and Dr. Mindy, two astronomers, who find themselves at the center a media frenzy while they’re attempting to warn mankind of a massive comet that’s hurtling towards Earth. While the narrative of this movie is intended to be humorous, it’s also eerily reflective of the way humanity could react if something like this were actually to happen.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Susan Granger

December 16, 2021December 19, 2021 Susan Granger adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

Such curious timing! The same week that NASA launched DART (Double Astroid Redirection Test), a $330 million spacecraft to ‘nudge’ the asteroid Dimorphos off -course, this star-studded cautionary satire hit the big screens.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Martha K Baker

December 9, 2021December 12, 2021 Martha K. Baker adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

The title is ironic. The idea is to look up. Up there, a comet is coming this way, and it will destroy the Earth and its denizens. That’s the prediction of two astronomers, Dr. Randall Mindy and his colleague, Kate Dibiasky, still earning her doctorate (an academic point made clear in every introduction). They are Spartans at Michigan State University. Read: low-level. Read: Midwest. Which is why the President herself decrees: “Let’s get some Ivy Leaguers in here.”

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MID90S – Review by Susan Granger

November 9, 2018November 10, 2018 Susan Granger 0 Comments jonah hill, Katherine Waterston, mid90s, skateboarding

Actor-turned-writer/director Jonah Hill has crafted a street-smart, mid-‘90s memory piece about the early days of a pop phenomenon: the sub-culture sport known as skateboarding.

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MID90s – Review by Roxana Hadadi

October 25, 2018December 29, 2018 Roxana Hadadi 0 Comments jonah hill, mid90s

Mid90s treats its female characters like crap and pretty much features a scene with borderline statutory rape as a cool thing. Whoa, so intense! So ’90s! You’re such a visionary, Jonah Hill! Did all your (male) filmmaker friends support you on this choice?

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