By Anne Brodie Guillermo de Toro’s florid version of Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein gets the full CGI, over the top treatment typical of the filmmaker. It could have benefitted from a slightly less in-yer-face with some degree of naturalism, more suggestion than showmanship. …
Faye, Impressive New Actor, Surreal Adventure and Celebrating Teen Films
By Anne Brodie Faye Dunaway’s singularity in the '60s and '70s as an actor and independent woman was important and we are reminded in the doc Faye. She was strong-willed, talented and made her demands clear, as the women's movement caught up to her. Dunaway’s power exploded asBonnie Parker in her …
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A Week for the Books! Barbenheimer, Hollywood Shuts Down, Actors’, Writers’, Studios’ Toxic Moment.
By Anne Brodie Strike! The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) are marching the picket lines and production, for the most part, has shut down. Film, TV, and streaming are not producing new works. For the foreseeable, films and shows will …
The Suicide Squad Lands, Wahlberg, A Boy’s Revenge, a Horse to Inspire, Paris Hilton is Back and …
The Suicide Squad WB By Anne Brodie David Cronenberg has begun principal photography on his latest feature and his first screenplay in 20 years, Crimes of the Future in Athens, Greece. And what a lineup of actors - Tanaya Beatty, Nadia Litz, Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott …