Still, he added, " 'Bottle Shock' is unable to figure out what kind of movie it wants to be, and flops around between madcap comedy and rousing drama.
But "Bottle Shock" is unable to figure out what kind of movie it wants to be, and flops around between madcap comedy and rousing drama.
BUSINESS DAY A picture caption on Tuesday with the Advertising column, about the mix of dark dramas and madcap comedies to be introduced for the fall television season, misidentified, in some editions, the actress shown in a scene from "Nashville," a country music soap drama from ABC.
But as with most of Mr. Ruders's works, this one is madcap, eclectic and teeming with drama.
There's a reason for all that flakiness and fidgeting: "The Newsroom" weaves an underlay of screwball comedy into the drama, and MacKenzie's madcap missteps and stuttering dismay are part the show's lighter touch.
Its star, for me, is Ryan Trecartin, an American artist based in Philadelphia, who orchestrates a shaggy installation in which scripted, digitally eventful videos (catchable on YouTube) feature madcap, often sexually ambiguous performers enacting phantasmagorical dramas in squeaky voices at very high speed.
After the incessant plaudits for the forward-thinking, superlative state of German football over the recent weeks, it was almost refreshing to see the Bundesliga sign off with a defiantly back-to-basics, madcap Saturday high on tears, comedy defending and drama.
But the madcap ending was the most memorable play.
His willingness to plunge in body and soul serves Mr. Wahlberg in ambitious, demanding films: Mr. Russell's madcap farces, Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights," the near Greek-tragic family dramas of the writer-director James Gray ("The Yards," "We Own the Night").
