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Cast
Catherine Keener
Amanda Peet
Rebecca Hall
Oliver Platt
Screenwriter
Nicole Holofcener
Director
Nicole Holofcener
Running Time
90 minutes

Kate has a lot on her mind. There’s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store. There’s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that Kate wants. There’s the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with her husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And there’s Kate’s free-floating 21st century malaise—the problem of how to live well and be a good person when poverty, homelessness, and sadness are always right outside the door. Plus, there’s the neighbors: cranky, elderly Andra and the two granddaughters who look after her. As Kate, Alex, and Abby interact with the people next door, with each other, and with their New York surroundings, a complex mix of animosity, friendship, deception, guilt, and love plays out with both sharp humor and pathos. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Well acted and entertaining but I don't think it exceeds the sum of its parts to add up to much of anything.

September Comics

CBR has the new DC, Marvel and Dark Horse solicitations for September.



FREEDOM FIGHTERS #1
Written by JIMMY PALMIOTTI & JUSTIN GRAY
Art by TRAVIS MOORE & TREVOR SCOTT
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
1:10 Variant Cover by SHANE DAVIS
A new call to arms begins as Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters return in an all-new action packed ongoing series helmed by the writing team of Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti with art by Travis Moore and Trevor Scott!
A national mystery unfolds when the government learns of the existence of a Confederate super weapon intended to insure the South won the Civil War. Who built it and why wasn’t it used? Find out when Uncle Sam leads the team on a quest through the hidden history of the United States! With new challenges and old threats returning to plague them, the stakes are higher than ever. Can even these stalwart heroes stand by their duty when their country calls?
Retailers please note: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the Previews Order Form for more information.
On sale SEPTEMBER 1 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

The price is right and the writers are great.


JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA SPECIAL #1
Written by SCOTT KOLINS
Art and cover by SCOTT KOLINS
“Kingdom Coming” concludes as Magog, the Justice Society of America and the JSA All-Stars are forced back together when all signs point to the events of KINGDOM COME coming to pass! But Magog refuses to rejoin either team and finds himself fighting for his life AGAINST the JSA!
On sale SEPTEMBER 15 • 56 pg, FC, $4.99 US

I get the ongoing.



INCOGNITO: Bad Influences #1
LAST YEAR’S BREAKOUT HIT FINALLY RETURNS!
By the award-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
One of the biggest Hollywood options of the year, nominated for THREE Eisner Awards, INCOGNITO is finally back for more! It’s apocalyptic pulp noir at its finest!
It’s been over a year since Zack Overkill came out of Witness Protection to build a new life. But working for the government isn’t that different from being controlled by them, and his new secret identity is becoming more trouble than it’s worth… So what will Zack do when tasked with a mission that sends him on a hunt into darkest corners of the super-criminal underworld where he was raised? Also returning with Incognito are the exclusive Pulp magazine essays by Jess Nevins, Professor of pulp history, only available in the single issues of Incognito.
32 PGS./ MATURE CONTENT/ NO ADS … $3.50

The last one was great.


1 for $1: Groo
Sergio Aragonés (W/A) and Mark Evanier (W)
On sale Sept 1
FC, 28 pages
$1.00
If you thought Groo was a dangerous idiot, wait till you see how dangerous he is now that he’s intelligent.






1 for $1: Magnus, Robot Fighter
Russ Manning (W/A)
On sale Sept 8
FC, 28 pages
$1.00
In the year 4000, with the human race threatened by robots that would enslave mankind, one man alone has the power to fight back—Magnus, Robot Fighter!




1 for $1: Star Wars Legacy
John Ostrander (W), Jan Duursema (P), Dan Parsons (I), and Brad Anderson (C)
On sale Sept 1
FC, 28 pages
$1.00
The Jedi Temple is attacked, an Emperor is betrayed, and the Sith are born anew! A lot can happen in a hundred years, but all of the above happens just in this first issue! Not since Luke Skywalker first stepped aboard the Millennium Falcon has the galaxy seemed like such a vast, exciting, dangerous place!


Again the ones I don't have.