Tag: Steve Coogan
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The Penguin Lessons: Juan Salvador’s Long Swim
Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons waddles into the canon of oddball inspiration dramas with an earnest heart and a satchel full of feathers. It offers us a reluctant teacher, a rebellious student body, and a creature so plainly unheroic it charms the stoicism right off a rugby pitch. If Dead Poets Society whispered “Carpe Diem”…
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Stan & Ollie: Finds the Sad Truth After the Visual Gag Has Shined
The best time and light for film biographies is twilight. Everything old looks grand in the dying light and creeping shadows, and it hardly matters that the actorly imitation is a step or two behind the genuine article. At that age everything is reflection, memory, regret and sadness, hopes of resurrecting those youthful steps and…
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“Ideal Home”: Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd Do a Family Three Way
In Ideal Home the comic rifts that Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd are able to create on their gay characters and their relationship is probably what attracted them to the project. Their bickering has a zing and wit that feels loose and unscripted. It lifts what is a conventional adoption drama about a gay couple…