Molly Gordon

Oh, Hi!

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Isaac and Iris in bed

When is a good time to tell your girlfriend that you’re just not that into her? Oh, Hi! suggests it probably isn’t when you’re in the middle of a light bondage session and you’re handcuffed to a bed. Yup. Stoopid. That’s the scenario that director Sophie Brooks and star Molly Gordon dreamt up while they were also in something of a handcuff situation – locked down during Covid – and they work it for all its worth in this larky, darkish dramedy at its best when it takes risks. Gordon you may know from being the on/off girlfriend of main man Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) in TV show The Bear. She’s playing a … Read more

Shiva Baby

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Danielle at the buffet

Shiva Baby is a failure-to-launch comedy of aspirational anxiety and adds writer/director Emma Seligman’s name to the list of 1980s-born New York(ish) women working the seam – Lena Dunham, Greta Gerwig and Desiree Akhavan. Seligman adds her own distinctive twist, though, a genre switcheroo as screwball comedy morphs into something darker and tenser, an almost Hitchcock-y vibe emerging as main focus Danielle (Rachel Sennott) works herself into terrible situations entirely of her own making. What’s more impressive is that the action takes place all on one set, inside the house where a shiva (the Jewish wake/mourning period) is taking place after the death of someone – the obligated Danielle isn’t actually sure who – … Read more