Film review: ‘THELMA’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

For some, June Squibb will be best remembered as Bruce Dern’s long-suffering wife in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, or Sheldon’s flinty grandma in The Big Bang Theory.  She’s been acting in movies since 1990 but the uneven yet touching comedy Thelma is her first leading role. Squibb plays the 90-something title character who’s still adjusting to life after her husband’s death. 

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Film review: NEBRASKA, from Built For Speed

Nebraska is exactly the sort of film that generates instant Oscar buzz, a quirky yet solemn tale of crumbling dreams and redemption steeped in Americana and anchored by an idiosyncratic Becket-esque performance. Bruce Dern plays irascible scraggly-haired old drunk Woodrow Grant who, sadly, floats in a state between retirement and encroaching dementia. Mistakenly believing that a sweepstakes letter guarantees him

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