Posts tagged Richard Gere
MOVIE REVIEW: Maybe I Do
MOVIE REVIEW: Maybe I Do

Familiar premises need a little wrinkle or twist to not be another retread. Thanks to Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Guess Who, the Meet the Parents franchise, and even the new You People, audiences have attended more than enough awkward meetings and dinners between contradictory parents trying to prevent a future marriage between their cherished children. Longtime Boy Meets World TV writer Michael Jacobs, making his feature directorial debut with a laudable cast, conjured an enticing sprinkle of spice towards this familiar setup with Maybe I Do.

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2 STARS, 2023, MOVIE REVIEW, StreamingDon ShanahanMaybe I Do, Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, William H. Macy, Susan Sarandon, Luke Bracey, Emma RobertsComment
MOVIE REVIEW: The Dinner
MOVIE REVIEW: The Dinner


More often than not, the label of “private family matter” spells doom and gloom.  A good time is not going to be had.  That’s the unfortunate impetus that brings two disunified brothers and their wives together for “The Dinner.”  Compressing layers of familial discontent and rancor thinly-masked by the repulsive worst of white privilege, the tightly-wound urgency and shattering purpose of this titular meeting reveals itself over the film’s two hours.

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2017, 2 STARS, Independent Film, MOVIE REVIEWDon Shanahan2017 Summer Movies, 2017, The Dinner, Oren Moverman, Love and Mercy, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Charlie Plummer, Richard Gere, Rebecca Hall, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Primal Fear, drama, film review, movie review, film commentary, movie commentary, life lessons, life lessons from film, life lessons from movies, The Orchard, independent film, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a LessonComment