'This Beautiful Future' Transfers to the Cherry Lane
This Beautiful Future is an intriguing play that challenges us to look at the present through the lens of romantic love at the end of WWII.
Uly Schlesinger, Francesca Carpanini in This Beautiful Future (Emilio Madrid)
Sometimes the only hope alive during crises or the trauma of war are romantic dreams which disappear in the light of day. Young love, illusion, rueful regret and irony thread two lines of action, one .in the past in Chartres, France, 1944, the other in an opaque and timeless present. The threads are like parallel…
Dripping with so many clichés that it feels like an oil slick, “Jerry and Marge Go Large” is the most inoffensive, wholesome, and sickly sweet movie that I’ve seen in a long, long time. This bland, straightforward comedy / drama is one that your parents and grandparents will watch with glee, but is also one that the whole family can enjoy. Translation: it’ll make you feel a pep in your step, but…
Would you ever like I don't know like hug me or something in front of my mom so she doesn't think I’m lying. -So, I will be helping out a friend but also messing with a homophobic Evangelical white woman.