In a struggling New York-area city stands a dying building. It has been condemned, ready to be taken over by fancy apartment developers unless its owner Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) can turn a profit on his VHS rental store to make the necessary repairs. When he takes a research trip to find out how to [...]
This essentially plotless Woody Allen film consists of a series of nostalgic vignettes about a 1940s working class New York family.
In this lesser Woody Allen film, Danny Rose (Woody) is a theatrical agent whose clients always leave him when they start becoming successful. His current client, a has-been tenor trying to make a comeback, gives him further grief by having an affair with a young woman (Mia Farrow) with gangster connections. Not only does Danny [...]
For whatever reason, I’ve been in a Woody Allen mood lately, rewatching Manhattan and some of my other favorites. I can’t always decide what I think about Allen as a filmmaker, largely because what I think of him as an actor keeps getting in the way (to be clear, I don’t think much of him [...]
