Melinda and Melinda

The Woodman's latest opus Melinda and Melinda is a welcome respite from the bats and hobgoblins that are currently showing in our modern movie palaces. Sure, there are no light sabres but there are waifish ingenues dancing about the screen fretting about their weight and the hollowness that they fear at the core of personal relationships.

Hey, as my friend Snoop Dogg says, "It's all good, baby. It's all good."

Larry Pine plays the earnest playwright who laments the paltry audiences for his offerings of tragedy while Wallace Shawn playing a screenwriter, the most successful lisping actor in modern history, revels in his comedic success not as an indictment of his esteemed colleague but a confirmation that humanity desires the sanctuary offered by laughter.