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When I read a book, I tend to give it 50 pages to grab me. If I’m not sucked in, I consider it fair to move on. The same goes with film… so I wouldn’t fault you for abandoning She Dies Tomorrow if you are clenching your teeth through...
It is hard to believe that a modern major motion picture has never been made about the fascinating, celebrated Marie Skłodowska Curie. Her discoveries of radium and polonium and her groundbreaking experiments in physics won her not one, but two Nobel prizes (the first with husband Pierre, the second...
Now, I’ve never seen A Chorus Line in any incarnation. My only familiarity with it is the unavoidable finale song “One” (“… singular sensation! Every little step she takes!” Go on, sing along!). It is one of those musicals that has toured the world and is probably being performed...
During the pandemic, for whatever reason and perhaps against better judgement, I have watched many disaster movies. Perhaps it is to feel better knowing that things could be a lot worse, but the truth is they have made me feel perhaps more queasy than they would have under normal...
Jess (Jasmine Batchelor) is a bright, passionate young woman living her best life as a web designer in Brooklyn. She is also more than enthusiastic to tell any passing stranger that she is newly pregnant as a surrogate for her best friend Josh (Chris Perfetti) and his husband Aaron...
In the preface, we meet Leilani (Issa Rae) and Jibran (Kumail Nanjiani) cute, giggly, and obviously crazy about each other after a hook-up that certainly looks like it is going to lead to something more serious. Jump ahead four years, and they are living together, bickering about little things,...
The cinematic portrayal of an antiquarian bookseller is usually of a gray-haired old guy in a tweed jacket who grumbles whenever he is disturbed by a customer. The bookstore is musty and dim, and you can see dust fly out of a book when it slammed shut. The Booksellers...
If it didn’t already mirror real life, there would be something kind of brilliant about a brash new-to-politics B-grade celebrity rising to power based on her penchant to speak her mind. [Viv Rook (Emma Thompson) even ends up naming her party the Four Star **** party, based on the...
We meet an attractive man and woman (Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith) on an awkward Tinder date at a diner. The date is not going well, but it’s just about to get a whole lot worse. On the drive home, they are pulled over for what seems to be...
When a story is told from the point of view of a dog, it seems like it would be an easy assumption to assume that it is “dumbed down” for a family audience. But Jack London’s gritty, often violent classic story The Call of the Wild had our hero, a...
SYNOPSIS: It’s open season on Harley Quinn when her explosive breakup with the Joker puts a big fat target on her back. Unprotected and on the run, Quinn faces the wrath of narcissistic crime boss Black Mask, his right-hand man, Victor Zsasz, and every other thug in the city....
Though Just Mercy is a relatively by-the-book procedural, it is actually better than its trailer suggests, portraying a solemn lawyer promising justice for an unjustly imprisoned death row inmate. With the swelling music of the trailer, and the cuts between concerned family members, furrowed brows, and evil lawyers and...
