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  • Somewhere in Queens: Getting Beyond the Sticks

    Somewhere in Queens: Getting Beyond the Sticks

    Plot via Rotten Tomatoes Leo Russo (Ray Romano) lives a simple life in Queens, New York with his wife Angela (Laurie Metcalf), their shy but talented son “Sticks” (Jacob Ward), and Leo’s close-knit network of Italian-American relatives and neighborhood friends. Happy enough working at the family construction business alongside his father (Tony Lo Bianco) and…

  • “Paddleton”: Settling into the Gentle Comedy That Is Friendship and Death.

    “Paddleton”: Settling into the Gentle Comedy That Is Friendship and Death.

    Comedies usually begin with a funeral and end with a wedding. Tragedies begin with weddings and end with death. Paddleton (on Netflix) starts with bosom buddies bonding and ends with bereavement. The film never hides what it is, a gentle comedy stuck in the twilight moments between light and dark, life and death, love and…