By Anne Brodie Apple Tree Yard, released theatrically in 2017 is now available as a series well worth resurrecting. Sure, there are problems with pacing and our changing feelings about the characters, but hang on – the slow burn is ideal, things feel lifelike and resonant and at the en when we …
Inside the Legend, Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Taylor.
By Anne Brodie Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar opens with her powerful statement. “Ill use my pain. If you want to hear something from me, you’ll hear it. I’m gonna thunder this through their brain”. Given her life story, forced into acting as a child, based on her beauty and fortunately, …
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Kyra and Kevin Star in Their Fourth Film Together.
By Anne Brodie One of the most enduring marriages in the world of entertainment, between Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon has lasted thirty-seven years. They made three films together - Lemon Sky, Pyrates and Murder in the First and their fourth,The Best You Can opens on Christmas Day. Quite a …
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Rowan Atkinson’s Making Me Nervous
By Anne Brodie Rowan Atkinson stars as Trevor Bingley in the comedy series Man vs Baby a meek fellow separated from his beloved wife and daughter and living alone in an isolated farmhouse. Christmas nears and he expects be with them but they’re both going to Barbados with his wife’s new beau. …
America 1975, Murder and Dopplegangers.
By Anne Brodie If you were conscious in 1975 and lived in North America, you will remember it as a turbulent year, of upheaval, new ideas and post hippy social awareness. It was a banner year for bold, impressive and timely films; that’s the lens through which Morgan Neville illustrates what …
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