Marvel’s Black Panther rewrites film and cultural history, breathes new life into the superhero genre, I daresay reinvents it and breaks through all the glass ceilings. It is the first ever-black superhero film, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, and features an all-black cast, barring Andy …
Real Life Becomes Art, an Oscar Worthy Heroine, Margot Robbie as Flopsy, Ropes and Romance, So Much Sex, Horror and Spectacle
Clint Eastwood was intrigued by the real-life American heroes, two ex-military and one civilian whose fast reaction scotched the August 21st, 2015 terrorist attack on Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris. Eastwood decided against using big name actors, and that the real-life heroes would be more …
Winchester Madness, a Streaming Delight, the Past Repeated, Spies to the Left and Right, Travel to U.K. TV Villages, and TIFF Cinematheque’s Guy Who Just Couldn’t Help Himself
Winchester stars Helen Mirren stars as Sara, widow of the founder of the Winchester Gun company who, following his death was overcome by guilt and fear, connected to the souls of the people who died at the business end of the famed repeating Winchester rifle. In 1884, she moved from Connecticut to …
Tender Love and Tough Love, Family Love, a Dash of Evil and Toronto Library’s Movie Gift to You
Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool looks at the real life romantic and sexual relationship between Hollywood noir queen and femme fatale Gloria Grahame and Peter Turner an aspiring Liverpool actor 28 years her junior. They met in his parent’s Liverpool boarding house in 1975 with a …
Oscar Nominated Thriller, Western Redux, Blood ‘n’ Guts, Obama Exits, Chilling True Life TV and Grace & Frankie Are Back, Baby
Diane Kruger won Best Actress at Berlin for her work in Fatih Akin’s thriller In the Fade set in contemporary and über rainy Hamburg. Katya, a native German and her Kurdish-German husband are trying to live a normal life following his drugs conviction and jail term. They’re doing well and have a …