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Michelle Williams and Luke Kirby, stars of Take This Waltz.

Chatting Up Michelle Williams at a Screening and Party for Take This Waltz

Thursday night’s Sunshine Cinema screening of Sarah Polley’s film Take This Waltz was sponsored by Forevermark and Crystal Head vodka. A romantic tale of infidelity and emotional rubble sponsored by diamonds and booze? By that same token, does there somewhere exist an all-you-can-eat pig roast underwritten by wet naps and burning shame? It all seemed a heartbreakingly serendipitous manifestation of the universe’s fuzzy feelings for humanity.

The film, Ms. Polley’s sophomore effort, tells the story of a young wife (Michelle Williams), lured away from her happy marriage to cookbook writer Seth Rogen by a rickshaw driver (Luke Kirby). We won’t spoil the ending for you, but Michelle Williams really is terrific, and we’re pretty sure there exists an entire market of people wanting to see Mr. Rogen emotionally decimated. Read More

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To Do Wednesday: The Judd Club

The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off tonight with a pretty un-indie (and un-Tribeca—it’s at the Ziegfeld!) selection: a red-carpet screening of The Five-Year Engagement, starring grown-man Muppet fan Jason Segel and British rose Emily Blunt as a couple who just can’t pull the trigger on a wedding. Yes, it’s another Judd Apatow film about a Read More

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Jason Segel is Fascinating at ‘Jeff, Who Lives at Home’ Premiere


Last night, the Hollywood Reporter and Fiji water held a special screening of the new arrested development (but not Arrested Development) comedy, Jeff, Who Lives at Home. The film, about a 30-year-old Jason Segel who still lives with his mother, Susan Sarandon and tries to turn his life around with the help of his older brother (Ed Helms), was directed indie duo the Duplass Brothers. Read More