By Anne Brodie Netflix's highly anticipated Marilyn Monroe film Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional biography of Norma Jean Baker and Marilyn Monroe takes an alternate look at the superstar who died too young. Norma Jean's ascent from poverty and abuse to one of the most famous women in …
A Stunning Peter Jackson-less LOTR, Romeo & Juliet, Rom-Coms, Murder, Simone Signoret and There’s Cake, Too.
By Anne Brodie Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is reported to be the most expensive production ever made at $1B. Every penny is on the screen. Perhaps the longest end credit list in existence and for good reason. It's stunning; it took a lot of work and a lot of artists. And despite …
The Spell of Exotica, or, a Good Djinn is Hard to Find, Workplace Blues, Godard, Momoa and Hitch!
By Anne Brodie Three Thousand Years of Longing, an ambitious fable based on Persian myths stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a prim, self-sufficient, and intellectual seeker, a narratologist who studies "all the stories in human history". She heads to Istanbul to speak at a story conference when a …
Arden Cho Navigates Gender Politics as an Ambitious Young Lawyer in Partner Track
Partner Track, Netflix' series foray into the workplace, a law firm where twenty-somethings battle it out for every square inch of clout reveals a lot about discrimination, inequality, and sexism - in 2022. We think we've come a long way but maybe not, as star Arden Cho tells What She Said' Anne …
Jim Broadbent Plays a Pensioner, the Only Person to Successfully Steal Treasure from London’s National Gallery, in The Duke.
Beloved and versatile British actor Jim Broadbent's body of work is as varied and long as any actor's. He released four films and series in the last few months and now stars in Roger Michell's heist adventure The Duke. It's the highly entertaining true story of disabled old age pensioner Kempton …