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Editor: Tim Miller, 508-862-1140 [email protected] MOVIES & MORE Fax: 508-771-3292 capecodonline.com/films Recently reviewed by Tim Miller Movie showtimes “Labor Day” (((in Falmouth, Hyannis, Mashpee, Sandwich and Cape and Islands theater schedules are South Dennis; “That Awkward Moment” (in Hyannis, Mashpee, updated every Friday on our website. Sandwich and South Dennis; see www.capecodonline.com/miller SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2014 Dpjfe `jXA\[`

Former classmate: I went to elementary school with a kid named Josh Miller. But he died. Josh: No, that was me.

osh was 9, and we were sitting on grass by a baseball field after Little League practice. I was the team’s Acoach. My boy was not showing signs of being a serious athlete. I’d catch him from time to time digging in the dirt around second base, for instance, instead of antici- pating a ground ball coming his way. He wasn’t the only kid like this; he was just acting his age. I was concerned, though. I was concerned about what the world might do to him. I looked at him, this sweet-natured boy with the glasses and big Tim front teeth and bowl- cut hair; this angelic, MILLER innocent goofball. And Confessions of a Cape Cod Film Critic I thought of how he could fall prey to bul- lies some day because, not being able to conceive of meanness, he’d assume they were just joking around. CLAUDETTE BARIUS/ I told him about my dilemma. I told him Starring in “” are, from left, , , John Goodman, Bob Balaban and . I was worried about him, that he might need to toughen up. The problem, I said, was I didn’t want him to change, because he had such a good, pure heart. “Usually the son is supposed to admire NOW SHOWING the father,” I told him. “But this time it’s the Clooney delivers mediocre other way around.” What: “The Monuments He understood. And he gave me a big Men” hug. A few months later, after he turned Star rating: (( 10, Josh was diagnosed with advanced Starring: George large-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Third ‘Monuments Men’ Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill stage. Not good. With nine months of Murray, , chemo, he was given a 70 percent chance By TIM MILLER Europe’s masterpieces from the 12-year-old boys who like to John Goodman, Jean [email protected] to live. But, as our doctor at Dana-Farber greedy grasp of Hitler. watch guys in Army helmets Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville told my wife, Sue, and me, the percent- he Monuments Men” How could this movie possi- drive around in Jeeps. It seems and Bob Balaban age ultimately wouldn’t matter to us. is like a chocolate bly go wrong? dated (like “,” actu- He’d either live or die. bunny. It looks good Well, first and foremost, by ally). And while there’s nothing Directed by: Clooney The next year was, truly, a living “Tbefore you dive never sparking to life. necessarily wrong with family- Written by: Clooney and nightmare for our whole family: Sue, in, but you might be disap- Clooney, who also co-wrote friendly, old-fashioned movies, me, daughter Katie (then 13) and Josh. It pointed to find that it’s hollow the screenplay, certainly tries. they still need to grab the audi- involved battling a daily onslaught of fear inside. There is noble sacrifice – some ence’s attention in some way. Based on: a book by and heartache. It has a great cast: George of these guys don’t make it Take Murray’s performance, Robert M. Edsel and Bret I held Josh in the children’s cancer Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill out alive. There is redemption. for example. In “The Monu- Witter ward and told him I’d change places with Murray – Isn’t that enough in There is friendship and cama- ments Men,” we get the deadpan Running time: 94 him if I could. “I’d never want that, Dad,” itself? – Cate Blanchett, John raderie. There is (an attempt . That version of him minutes he said. “Adults have a lesser chance of Goodman, (of to create) romantic tension can work well (in Jim Jar- survival.” “The Artist”), Hugh Bonneville (between the Damon and musch’s “Broken Flowers,” for Rating: PG-13 (for some He kept his sense of humor. While he (of “Downton Abbey”) and Bob Blanchett characters). There is instance), but in a movie lack- images of war violence was going through a particularly horrific Balaban. Murray getting misty-eyed as ing any energy, the sarcastic, and smoking) procedure involving a needle in his back, It was directed by Clooney, his character listens to a sen- lively Bill could have shaken us Where: Chatham his wonderful doctor, Melody, with whom who also made the first-rate timental Christmas recording awake. Orpheum Theater, he had become close, asked playfully, “Good Night, and Good Luck” from home. As for depth, the film does Entertainment Cinemas “Who’s your favorite doctor, Josh?” (though he also made the lame And all of this falls flat. question (more than once, in Falmouth and South In a high voice, Josh answered, “Doctor football comedy “Leather- Maybe it’s in part because unfortunately) whether saving Dennis, Heritage Kevorkian.” heads”). Clooney’s film is like a mati- art is worth the cost of human Theaters in Sandwich, He also gained a certain perspective. On And the basic real-life story nee movie kids would attend life. Given the premise of the Regal Cinemas in one of the days he was healthy enough to has so much potential: Ameri- in the 1960s, a rather innocent movie, we know the answer Hyannis and Mashpee, go to his fifth-grade class, he was sitting can art experts are enlisted (despite the killings), gung- before the question is asked. and Wellfleet Cinemas in the back row of the school bus when an during World War II to save ho war adventure geared for And that’s a problem, too. older kid walked over and said something like, “Get out, the back seat is for sixth-grad- ers.” Josh looked at him and said, “There is nothing you can say that will make me move.” (“What was the kid going to do?” Josh asked me later. “Give me cancer?”) So the kid sat next to Josh and they had a friendly conversation. ?fccpnff[jkXijgXp A year passed. Josh went into remis- sion. He survived. I don’t know how these things work, but all I can say is thank you, i\jg\ZkjXk?f]]dXe]le\iXc God. Thank you. It’s now more than 15 years later. Josh is 25, happily married, working and living By KAREN MATTHEWS looked visibly upset as he Campbell Funeral Home in on the Cape. He has a good life. He still THE arrived. . has that sweetness, that incredibly warm – Philip Sey- “He left an enormous The rumpled, heavy-set heart that he gets from his mom. But he’s mour Hoffman’s private amount of love behind. It’s Hoffman was known to dive also as close to fearless as anyone I’ve funeral was held in Man- a terrible loss,” said Jose into roles and was nomi- ever known. He’s the guy you want in the hattan on Friday, with stars Rivera, a playwright whose nated for foxhole with you. , Cate Blanch- work has been produced four times: for “The Master,” So what does any of this have to do with ett, , Brian by Hoffman’s LAByrinth “Doubt,” “Charlie Wilson’s movies? Dennehey, Amy Adams and Theatre Company. He said War” and “Capote,” which he When Josh was going to UMass Ellen Burstyn paying their the service was beautiful, won. He also received three Amherst, he was frustrated because he respects to an actor widely with people sharing their Tony nominations for his wasn’t sure what area to pursue. He didn’t considered among the best memories of Hoffman and work on Broadway, which know what he wanted to do, what he of his generation. laughing. included an acclaimed turn wanted to be. The coffin holding Hoff- Hoffman, 46, was found in 2012 as the weary and Josh has always been a “Star Wars” nut, man’s body was brought out dead Sunday of an appar- defeated Willy Loman in and one day I realized what should have of the Church of St. Ignatius ent heroin overdose in his “Death of a Salesman.” been obvious. Loyola by pallbearers and apartment. He leaves behind The theater community “I know what you should be, Josh.” put in a hearse as family his partner of 15 years, Mimi mourned the actor Wednes- “What?” and guests began to stream O’Donnell, and their three day with a candlelit vigil out- “A Jedi.” out Friday afternoon. Streep children. O’Donnell was seen side his beloved LAByrinth I was serious, and he understood. hugged Diane Sawyer as cradling their youngest child company downtown and with During a lecture to a film class last they left. as she entered the church. Broadway’s marquee lights week, I suggested that the best movies, of The list of mourners also Police did not allow any- turned off for a minute. any genre, can be applied to real life. included Michelle Williams, one to linger on the block More tests are needed “They could be fantasy or science fic- , Joaquin outside the church, and the to determine what exactly tion,” I said. “Even ‘Stars Wars.’” Phoenix, Louis C.K., Mary media was penned in an killed Hoffman, who was I used my son as an example. Louise Parker, John Slat- area far from the mourners. found with a syringe in his “He’s a Jedi,” I said. “He’s a badass.” tery, Jerry Stiller, Chris A larger memorial service arm and what authorities JASON DECROW PHOTOS/ASSOCIATED PRESS And I left it at that. Rock, Marisa Tomei, Spike is being planned for later said were dozens of packets Mimi O’Donnell, center at top of stairs, estranged partner Lee and Sawyer’s husband, this month. On Thursday of heroin in his apartment. of actor , watches with her chil- Tim Miller’s reviews can be found at www. director Mike Nichols. Play- evening, family and close Autopsy results were incon- dren, from left, Willa, Tallulah and Cooper, as Hoffman’s capecodonline.com/miller. To follow him on wright David Bar Katz, friends gathered for a pri- clusive, authorities said this casket is loaded into a waiting hearse after his funeral Twitter, go to @TimMillerCritic. who found Hoffman’s body, vate wake at the Frank E. week. Friday in New York. Cape Cod Times C2 Cape Cod Times

Editor: Tim Miller, 508-862-1140 [email protected] MOVIES & MORE Fax: 508-771-3292 capecodonline.com/films Recently reviewed by Tim Miller Movie showtimes “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” (((½in Falmouth, Hyannis, Mashpee, Sandwich, Cape and Islands theater schedules South Dennis and Wellfleet; “Grand Budapest Hotel” (((½in Chatham, Falmouth, are updated every Friday on our South Dennis and Wellfleet; see www.capecodonline.com/miller website SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2014 @k_Xgg\ej \m\ip j\d\jk\i t happens every semester. I give my film students their finals, and as they’re taking them, I’m @sitting at the front of with a heavy heart. One by one they drop off their exams as they finish them, and we quietly (so as not to disturb the remaining test-takers) say our goodbyes. One by one they walk out the door, and I know there’s a good chance I’ll never see them again. When the last stu- dent leaves, it’s time for me to pack up and leave. But I usually want to sit, or stand, in the class- room or lecture hall for a bit longer. The students, I’m pretty sure, Tim are happy the MILLER class is over, and Confessions of a they’re looking Cape Cod Film Critic to their future – graduation, or the next semester. I’m already in their rearview mirror, as I should be. For me, it’s a bittersweet experi- GLEN WILSON PHOTOS/ ence. I might feel relieved at getting Kelly (Rose Byrne) and Mac () infiltrate a frat party in “Neighbors.” through another semester and hav- ing “time off” (as in only one job to worry about), but I also feel a strong sense of loss. I get to know these college stu- dents – some better than others – Wild ‘Neighbors’ crude, but funny through class discussions, through casual or not so casual chats before and after class, and, perhaps most of By TIM MILLER all, through their writing. [email protected] NOW SHOWING I have my students, at Suffolk eighbors” is 2014’s What: “Neighbors” University and Cape Cod Com- “Animal House” – munity College, write critiques on and that’s meant Star rating: ((( just about every movie we see in as a compliment. class. I emphasize that I don’t want It involves an Starring: Seth Rogen, Rose formal, generic pieces. Movies are insanely hard-par- Byrne and personal, or should be, and I want “Ntying college fraternity – only it’s their writing to reflect this. I want mostly from the perspective of Directed by: Nicholas Stoller them to bring something of their the neighbors who live next door. Written by: Andrew J. Cohen own to the table. I want to be able They are the Radners, Mac to read critiques and, without look- (Seth Rogen, the human Fozzie and Brendan O’Brien ing at the name on top, have a good Bear) and Kelly (Rose Byrne), a Running time: 96 minutes idea who wrote them – through their couple with an (adorable) infant individual views and concerns, their daughter, Stella. The Radners are Rating: R (for pervasive personalities, their writing voices. in that funny transitional phase language, strongly crude and My goal as a teacher (warning: where they want to be respon- sexual content, graphic nudity, this could sound pretentious) is sim- sible parents, but they also don’t ple: to raise consciousness. I want to want to feel, well, old. Or boring. Teddy (Zac Efron, left) and Pete (Dave Franco) are ready to party in and drug use throughout) encourage students to be more con- They’re concerned, under- “Neighbors.” Where: Entertainment scious of how they’re experiencing standably, when a frat moves into Cinemas in Falmouth and and digesting movies, and, by exten- the house next door. And their most nights. The Radners even bags stolen from his car and set South Dennis, Heritage sion perhaps, to be more conscious fears are warranted. Led by its party with the guys for a night. as traps for him. Theaters in Sandwich, Regal about everything in their lives. president, Teddy Sanders (Zac But then things turn ugly. But as crazy as things get, When I show an Ingmar Bergman Efron), and his sidekick, Pete Neighbor turns on neighbor. War “Neighbors” also has the ring of Cinemas in Hyannis and movie (either “Wild Strawberries” or (Dave Franco, younger brother of is declared. truth. If you’ve ever been victim- Mashpee “The Seventh Seal”), for instance, ), this fraternity has Like the recent “This Is the ized by a noisy neighbor, you we get into Bergman’s in-your-face a long history of bad behavior. End,” in which Rogen played a might relate to Mac and Kelly. Or, than playing the stereotypical consideration of death. I used to Rumor has it this is the group variation of himself, “Neighbors” if you’ve ever been on the other wife-as-voice-of-reason, Byrne think I was immortal when I was that invented the toga party and is sexually graphic and crude end, and can’t believe the wea- gives Kelly a wild side and killer their age, I tell my students, most of beer pong! And Teddy and Co. enough to drive some unsuspect- sels next door called the cops on instinct of her own. There’s a whom are in their late teens or early are determined to make their ing moviegoers from the theater. you for being too loud, you might sequence when she pulls off one 20s. But now, I continue, I’m fairly own mark on history. But it’s also often outrageously relate to Teddy and Pete. bit of nasty business against certain everyone in the classroom is First, Mac and Kelly stroll over funny. Highlights include a Rob- Or maybe, based on different Teddy that ends with her giving a going to die eventually. So shouldn’t and try to be friendly, while also ert DeNiro frat party (with Teddy points in your life, you will relate look that says “That’s right; don’t we give death some thought, even if getting the message across to in a Mohawk to represent “Taxi to both sides. even think about messing with it makes us feel uncomfortable? the boys that there’s a baby next Driver” and Pete even funnier as Rogan and Efron are just right me.” Yeah, sometimes I’m just a barrel door and it sure would be great the “Meet the Fockers” DeNiro), in their roles, but the surprise Look out, . of laughs. if the volume could be kept down and Mac falling victim to air here is Byrne’s Kelly. Rather You’ve got competition. The students’ critiques, and their essay answers on the final, often move me. Last semester, a young woman in one of my Suffolk classes in Boston wrote that “Casablanca” was her favorite film from the course because of its theme of self- Ê>`^fcfËj_flc[ sacrifice: It made her want to be a better person. My heart soared. Much of the time the students’ sin- ]X[\XnXp cerity is what gets to me. Some write with great compassion and warmth, some with passion and anger. Some By TIM MILLER are just so down-to-earth and funny, [email protected] NOW SHOWING or cheerful and optimistic, in their ohn Turturro’s New York-set What: “Fading Gigolo” writing. Even those who take a “Fading Gigolo” is essentially a more intellectual approach often dig one-gag movie: is Star rating: ( deep within themselves and make it Aa pimp and Turturro is his “ho.” personal. That is, if you consider that a gag. Starring: , Woody I am so grateful, so honored, that Gimmicky premise is more like it. Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Sharon they open themselves up to me this As writer-director, Turturro takes Stone and Sofia Vergara way. It’s a risk on their part, on any- this idea and walks with it – as in, one’s part, to write or speak from “I’m gonnaFioravante hit the ground Written and directed by: John JOJO WHILDEN/MILLENNIUM ENTERTAINMENT the heart. It leaves you vulnerable. walking!” It’s hard to figure out what Turturro Murray (Woody Allen, left) has an idea – turn his friend Fioravante (John I’m humbled that they would trust he’s going for. Is this movie sup- Turturro) into a gigolo. me by sharing this part of them- posed to be funny? Is it supposed to Running time: 90 minutes selves. be sexy or romantic? Is it supposed out to lonely (and/or horny) women? characters, there’s the promise of a So I sit there after they’ve all to be moving? Is it supposed to Rating: R (for some sexual Murray will set things up; Fiora- menage à trois – and Fioravante will finished their finals and have left the reflect human nature in some way? content, language and brief vante just has to, um, satisfy. get paid big bucks on top of this! room. I fight the urge to get choked No matter what it’s supposed nudity) Playing his potential, needy It looks like our middle-aged stud up. And then I force myself to get up to be, the film flies off-target. It is clients: Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara will soon have to choose between and move on. creepy, but I suspect that’s unin- Where: Cape Cinema in Dennis and ’s real-life ex, Van- love and sex/money. tended. essa Paradis, as a Hasidic widow. Do we care about the outcome? Tim Miller’s reviews can be found Turturro plays Fioravante, who his bookshop. With the widow, apparently, it’s not No. at www.capecodonline.com/miller. works as a florist and is hard up for Murray comes up with a brain- really about sex, but her need for And the weird thing is, you never To follow him on Twitter, go to @ money. So is Fioravante’s friend, storm: Fioravante’s a studly guy in intimacy; she and Fioravante barely get the sense that Turturro really TimMillerCritic. Murray (Allen), who’s had to close an Everyman way. Why not rent him touch. With Stone’s and Vergara’s does, either. Cape Cod Times C3 Cape Cod Times

Editor: Tim Miller, 508-862-1140 [email protected] MOVIES & MORE Fax: 508-771-3292 capecodonline.com/films Recently reviewed by Tim Miller Movie showtimes “A Walk Among the Tombstones” ((( in Hyannis; Cape and Islands theater “The Trip to Italy” (((( in Chatham and Dennis; schedules are updated see www.capecodonline.com/miller every Friday on our website. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 Conversations with a squirrel

’m walking down Main Street, Hyannis, having my daily phone conversation with my mom, who’s 82 and lives in Isuburban Detroit. Neither one of us has the best hearing. She’s just told me, for the umpteenth time, that she loves to watch “America’s Got Talent.” Mom: I really like one of the judges. I think her name is May Bee. Tim: Maybe? Mom: I think it’s May Bee. Tim: Uh, no, Mom. It’s Mel B. Mom: It is? I thought it was May Bee. I thought the B was for B-e-e. Tim Tim: Nope. MILLER Mom: What’s the B Confessions of a for? Cape Cod Film Critic Tim: Brown, I think. Melanie Brown. Mom: What do you watch on TV? Tim: Baseball, mostly. Oh, and “Boardwalk Empire.” I don’t know if you’d like it, though. It’s very violent. It’s about . Mom: Pranksters? SCOTT GARFIELD PHOTOS/SONY - COLUMBIA PICTURES Tim: Gangsters! Yeah, Mom, pranksters. Robert McCall () has a way with tools in “The Equalizer.” You know, that Lucky Luciano, what a prankster! The St. Valentine’s Day Massa- cre? Probably Al Capone’s greatest prank! This is our typical conversation, though for a long time the majority of our conver- sations involved whether my mom was a squirrel. I claimed she was. She said she wasn’t. Strong message, acting Whenever I’d call and get her voice mail, I’d call out, hoping to lure her from the outer reaches of her condo. “Squir-rel ... Oh, Squirrrrr-rel. ... Here, Squirrel. Here, Squir- rel.” I sent her a stuffed squirrel or two. One was from Yosemite National Park; you could press its belly and it would make squirrel- chirping sounds. enhance ‘Equalizer’ I thought of “Squirrel” as a term of endear- ment. My mom has slightly chubby cheeks (runs in the family) and she looks very cute. By TIM MILLER She also gets a bit nervous at times, but [email protected] NOW SHOWING she’s also very sweet. I like squirrels; they “The Equalizer” opens with a crack me up the way they scamper about quote from saying that What: “The Equalizer” and eat with such enthusiasm (another trait the two most important days in Star rating: ((( shared with our family). Squirrel just seems your life are when you are born and the right nickname for her. when you find out why. This intro- Starring: Denzel Washington, Not in her mind, though. duces the major theme of the film: Chloe Grace Moretz and Marton Mom: I’m not a squirrel. I’ve told you, I’m that it’s up to us to figure out our Csokas an eagle. role in life. Are we the person we’re Directed by: Tim: You’re a squirrel. meant to be? If not, then it’s up to Mom: No, I want to be an eagle. I’m an us to change things – ourselves, our Written by: Richard Wenk eagle. When you were a child, did you situations – so that we can be. You Based on: the TV series written dream you could fly? I did! know, self-actualization. by Michael Sloan and Richard Tim: OK, maybe you’re a flying squirrel. It’s this theme, along with fine Lindheim Mom: I am not. I’m an eagle. acting by Denzel Washington and And so it would go. Finally, she told me Chloe Grace Moretz, that sets “The Running time: 131 minutes she really didn’t want to be called a squir- Equalizer” apart from what it other- Rating: R (for strong bloody rel. Some of her friends, apparently, had wise would be: the typical bloody, violence and language confirmed her opinion that squirrels were out-for-justice movie. throughout, including some pests and that being called one was not a Washington plays a charac- sexual references) compliment. So, reluctantly, I stopped call- ter somewhat older, heavier (if Chloe Grace Moretz plays a young prostitute who befriends McCall in an ing her Squirrel, though I thought it was her only by the way he carries him- all-night diner. Where: Entertainment Cinemas loss. self) and more reserved than in Falmouth and South Dennis, Mom (formerly known as Squirrel) will usual. He’s Robert McCall, who local diner. At a certain point, he film unintentionally funny toward Heritage Theaters in Sandwich, be on the Cape as you read this. She’s visit- works at a Home Mart (think must decide whether to become the end. I kept wanting to yell out: Regal Cinemas in Hyannis and ing for a few weeks, which I’m sure will Home Depot) in Boston and has her protector, and when he does, he “Clean-up in Aisle 3!” Mashpee, Wellfleet Cinemas be filled with games of canasta and talk of a mysterious past. He has a quiet finds himself taking on the Russian Still, there’s something cathartic movies. dignity; his younger co-workers mob. about watching an honorable man I inherited my love of movies from my like and respect him. He tries to And in doing so, he becomes protect innocents by fearlessly turn- Washington to his best-actor Oscar mom and my dad. Dad, who died in 2007, help people; he encourages one what he’s meant to be: a modern ing the tables on sadistic pimps, for “Training Day.” Once again, was a guy; he loved old war overweight co-worker to watch knight in shining armor. Except cops given to extortion, mob king- Fuqua brings out the best in his star movies and Westerns and taught me the his diet and work out so he can this knight has, to borrow a phrase pins and the like. And there’s this: in a film that, like “Training Day,” names of all of the supporting actors (Dane become a security guard. from another film, “a very particular McCall always gives his opponents has a strong premise and builds Clark, Richard Jaeckel, John Agar, George He’s a widower, and you can tell set of skills.” a chance to change, to stop what suspense but eventually goes a bit Tobias, Henry Morgan, Walter Brennan, he’s experienced great pain. Part of These skills include (but are they’re doing. When they don’t, he too over the top. Moretz also does etc). Mom loved the old movies, too, but in him has died, but, as one character not limited to) the ability to make sometimes seems to feel genuinely well, breathing life into a somewhat the ’60s she also leaned toward more con- points out, the best of him remains. deadly, and gruesome, use of sorry for what comes next. stereotypical role (young hooker in temporary dramas that veered off a bit from Meanwhile, he befriends a young home-improvement tools, and “The Equalizer” was directed by distress) by seeming convincingly the mainstream. Her two favorite movies, Russian prostitute (Moretz) at a that, frankly, is what makes the Antoine Fuqua, who also directed lost and desperate. released at opposite ends of the decade, were “The Misfits” (, Marilyn Monroe) and “Midnight Cowboy” (the only X-rated movie ever to win the best picture Oscar). She doesn’t go out to see as many movies as she once did, but we still talk about them GXlc;XefÔe[jjleepj`[\f]9i`XeN`cjfe all the time. She’s often expressed concern about the ugliness and evil often portrayed By BETSY SHARKEY singer’s story decades later, deeply the stage regularly. He already has on screen these days; she worries about TIMES damaged and under the thumb of an enviable body of movie work. my spiritual health. I have a lot of respect TORONTO – Paul Dano is having a controlling psychologist, then Yet in a sense, Dano is only begin - for her wisdom, and I know she has a good a light moment. finally breaking free. ning. “I feel like I’ve got a lot ahead point. But I tell her it’s my job to see all Seared into memory as “Little “I know Brian’s life is full of tur- of me,” he said. “I don’t know what sorts of movies, and that one of my respon- Miss Sunshine”’s sullen, silent moil, but he has a real childlike the next thing is, but I want to find sibilities is to get moviegoers to consider teen, “”’s fire- spirit,” Dano explained. “Some of something to be challenged by, that what they are watching and perhaps help and-brimstone devil, and “12 Years the parts of Brian you see in ’Love gets you wanting to fight.” them weed out the bad from the good. a Slave”’s maniacal overseer, the & Mercy’ are lighter than a lot of When so many peers play heart- As I write this, I’m looking forward to her young actor has a role in a heralded CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION the characters I play.” throbs or superheroes, Dano opts visit and our movie talks. I mentioned to my new movie that shows a – relatively, Paul Dano, right, appears with Dano is known for turning psy- for the easy to despise and then pal, Meg Burton, our assistant news editor, anyway – softer side. of , chic pain into an art form. So com- gives them a gripping, unsettling that my mom was coming. In “Love & Mercy,” which pre- center, and . paratively, the young Wilson is inner life.. “Love & Mercy”’s com- Meg perked up. miered to a good deal of love at the saturated with good vibrations. But plexities allow Dano to open up in “Squirrel???” Toronto International Film Festival, helped make beautiful music, Dano hopes for more. Comedy is different ways. A scene that cap- the maestro of emotional mayhem before things went terribly wrong. but one of many dreams. The actor, tures the birth of Wilson’s album Tim Miller’s reviews can be found at www. plays the Beach Boys’ troubled Wilson is a two-man job in direc- 30, started on Broadway at 11 in a “” gets to a sense of capecodonline.com/miller. To follow him on genius, Brian Wilson, in his 20s. A tor ’s free-form biog- revival of “Inherit the Wind” oppo- artistic invention. Gentleness, raw Twitter, go to @TimMillerCritic. time when the voices in his head raphy. John Cusack picks up the site George C. Scott and returns to vulnerability, joy seep into frame.