By Anne Brodie Emerald Fennell’s sharp revenge thriller Promising Young Woman is a well crafted story featuring a game changing performance by Carey Mulligan. She’s Cassie, victim of a brutal rape and she’s taken it upon herself to wreak vengeance and ruin on predators. The film opens late at …
It’s 2049 and Earth is Dying. George Clooney’s Passion Project The Midnight Sky Offers Hope.
George Clooney’s new film The Midnight Sky, carries forward his activism on behalf of our planet Earth. Clooney produced and directed the film and plays Arctic researcher Augustine, left alone to man his northern station when colleagues rush home for their last remaining days. The Earth’s being …
Alicia Witt, a Jane Austen Heroine in Modern Persuasion
Alicia Witt's all business as a rising exec in Modern Persuasion, a contemporary comic riff on Jane Austen’s social manners novel Persuasion, set in a Manhattan boutique PR firm. Witt’s Wren is approaching forty and happily single, but her aunt, played by Bebe Neuwirth, and her millennial …
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Meet Clooney’s Space Crew Demián Bichir and David Oyelowo
Multi-award-winning British actor David Oyelowo and veteran Mexican actor Demián Bichir star in George Clooney’s climate crisis space drama The Midnight Sky. They’re astronauts confined to a spaceship returning to earth following a stay on a planet friendly to human life. They have no idea Earth …
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An Irish Ex Pat Returns Home for Wild Mountain Thyme.
Famed writer director John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Doubt, Live from Baghdad) traveled home to Ireland to create a modern fable about a guy and a girl, rival farmers who may just be meant for one another. Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken star. What She Said’ Anne Brodie …
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