Heartbreak Provides A Springboard For Enjoyable Comedy in The Breaker Upperers

Everybody's gotta make money somehow. Me, I make money through working at Walgreen's and also through writing about movies on the internet. For the two lead characters of The Breaker Upperers (which is now streaming on Netflix), Jennifer (Jackie van Beek) and Mel (Madeleine Sami), they make their money through a service that sees them being hired by people to break up their failing relationships. Jennifer and Mel, who became best pals and business partners after they found they were seeing the same man, then proceed to concoct some sort of scheme to tear the two people apart and make a solid sum of money in the process. It's been a reliable business for quite some time, but now challenges have emerged threatening this set-up.

Boy is Taika Waitit's Best And Most Emotionally Resonant Feature

Back in the 1984, a child known only as Boy (James Rolleston), who is the figure this 2010 feature is named after, lives out a pretty normal life for an adolescent on the cusp of being a teenager. He loves Michael Jackson, has a small but close group of friends and also yearns for his father to come back into his life. For years, Boy has been telling anyone who would listen these tales about his father's great deeds from the past and that's helped build up his father to be some kind of mythic figure in the mind of Boy. So when his dad, Alamein (Taika Waititi) shows up again out of the blue, well, Boy is as happy as can be, he's just so excited to have his father back into his life and it seems like his dad is happy to see him too.