Email Author Melissa Anderson

2011 Stories by Melissa Anderson

• Margin Call movie review

  published October 19, 2011

  Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at Occupy Wall Street, writer-director J.C. Chandor's lifeless Margin Call depicts roughly 36... More >>

• Take Shelter movie mirrors our national anxiety

  published October 12, 2011

  Standing outside his small-town Ohio home, his wife and child busy preparing breakfast inside, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) looks up at... More >>

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  Sarah Jessica Parker in I Don't Know How She Does It

  published September 14, 2011

  What I don't know: why these movies keep getting made. I Don't Know How She Does It is based on Allison Pearson's 2002 diaristic, comic... More >>

• Highlight: My Dog Tulip

  published March 9, 2011

  The antithesis of both Marley & Me cuddliness and Cesar Millan militance, J.R. Ackerley's 1956 memoir about his recalcitrant German... More >>

• Somewhere

  published January 5, 2011

  Action-movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), first seen doing laps in his black Ferrari, has no destination in Somewhere, Sofia... More >>