MAX CASELLA

LATE NIGHT (2019)
Starring Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow, Reid Scott, Amy Ryan, Denis O'Hare, Hugh Dancy, Max Casella, Paul Walter Hauser and John Early. Directed by Nisha Ganatra.

Katherine Newbury is a pioneer and legendary host on the late-night talk-show circuit. When she’s accused of being a “woman who hates women,” she puts affirmative action on the to-do list, and—presto!— Molly is hired as the one woman in Katherine’s all-male writers’ room. But Molly might be too little too late, as the formidable Katherine also faces the reality of low ratings and a network that wants to replace her. Molly, wanting to prove she’s not simply a diversity hire who’s disrupting the comfort of the brotherhood, is determined to help Katherine by revitalising her show and career—and possibly effect even bigger change at the same time.

REVIEWS Late Night - The ladies of comedy have come to make waves

WONDER WHEEL (2017)
Starring Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, Justin Timberlake, Jim Belushi, Debi Mazar, Max Casella, Geneva Carr, Tony Sirico, Steve Schirripa and Matthew Maher. Directed by Woody Allen.

The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.

REVIEWS Wonder Wheel - Inert and boring

JACKIE (2017)
Starring Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Richard E. Grant, Caspar Phillipson, Beth Grant, John Carroll Lynch and Max Casella. Directed by Pablo Larraín.

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

REVIEWS Jackie - An appreciation of a new American classic
Jackie - Natalie Portman is Jackie O

FADING GIGOLO (2014)
Starring John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone, Sofía Vergara, Loan Chabanol, Bob Balaban, Max Casella and Aida Turturro. Directed by John Turturro.

In a scheme to make money, a man who owns a book store convinces his friend that a fortune could be made by becoming a professional gigolo.

BLUE JASMINE (2013)
Starring Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.k., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tammy Blanchard and Max Casella. Directed by Woody Allen.

The story of the final stages of an acute crisis and the life of a fashionable New York housewife.

REVIEWS Blue Jasmine - Blanchett brightens a dark Allen film