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 colleagues seem desperate to get her a man. Bets are off when her… View Post
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 is dying. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Bichir and Oyelowo. The… View Post
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 spoke with Shanley. Wild Mountain Thyme is available on Digital and… View Post
George Clooney’s new film The Midnight Sky, carries forward his activism on behalf of our planet Earth. Clooney stars as Arctic researcher Augustine, and he produced and directed the film. Augustine’s left alone in his northern station when colleagues rush home for their last remaining days. The Earth’s being swallowed up by a toxic, man-made cloud. Augustine’s determined to warn… View Post
Caoilinn Springall and George Clooney in The Midnight Sky By Anne Brodie Looks like Nomadland’s Frances McDormand has fierce competition for all the Best Actress awards in Viola Davis. Davis is unrecognizable as 20’s blues icon Ma Rainey, in George C. Wolfe’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Broadway hit play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Ma is big, bold, entitled, confident and… View Post
Viola Davis’s astonishing transformation into 20’s blues singer Ma Rainey is an act of pure thespian skill that may well earn Davis a second Oscar. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom directed by George C. Wolfe and based on August Wilson’s long running Broadway hit stars Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman. So, who was Ma Rainey? Born Gertrude Pridgett in 1896, and born… View Post