By Anne Brodie Five-time Oscar winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and more superb films cemented him as a great American filmmaker. But the shine was dulled in 2024 with the limited release of his fantasy epic Megalopolis set in modern-day New York standing in …
Early January = a Lot of Junk, Hence WIP and Old Treasures.
Ben Affleck and Daniel Ranieri in The Tender Bar on Amazon Prime Video By Anne Brodie. George Clooney directs The Tender Bar, starring Ben Affleck, based on J. R. Moehringer's memoir about growing up on Long Island, with Daniel Ranieri as young Moehringer and Tye Sheridan the elder. The boy, …
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Kicking 2020 to the Curb with Laughs, British Comfort Shows, Ancient Icy Remains and More
Lesley Manville in Mum By Anne Brodie Netflix debuts a clever, of-the-moment mockumentary on the state of things this past year; it's all painfully, tragically, achingly there. Al Campbell and Alice Mathias' Death to 2020 puts a deep (state) black comedy spin on Trump, COVID and …