Gazette on film

a movie review by Rose A. Whitney | May 31, 2006

Directors Tim Johnson, whose previous credits include the 1998 film “Antz”, and Karey Kirkpatrick, who wrote the screenplay for “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in 2005 have successfully collaborated to produce a memorable animation tale which offers the viewer fun with a message. Typical of many animation films, “Over the Hedge” is meant to be viewed, evaluated, and assimilated... READ MORE >

‘The Squid And The Whale’: A Family In Crisis Gazette

a movie review by Rose A. Whitney | February 01, 2006

Set in Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1986, “The Squid and the Whale” is a penetrating dissection of a family in crisis and clearly shows how the devastating process of divorce affects all members of a family. The middle-class, professional Berkman family consists of mother Joan (Laura Linney), father Bernard (Jeff Daniels), teenage son Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and pre-teen son Frank... READ MORE >