Daily Archives: September 3, 2020

Where my feminists at? Julianne M. and Alicia V. are “The Glorias”

It will be hard to top Rose Byrne’s canny, sexy take on the feminist icon Gloria Steinem, one of the standout performances in Hulu’s “Mrs America” series this past spring. Alicia Vikander and Julianne Moore, and two younger actresses will … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” becomes an Aussie crimeland drama/love-story

In the canon, it’s listed with “the problem plays,” those Shakespearean works treated as comedies but with death, troubles and darkness lain o’er the “true love tested” proceedings. Resetting “Measure for Measure” in modern day Australia, in the gangland apartment … Continue reading

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Find “Tenet” on an IMAX theater screen near you

This, from Exhibitor Relations. Go to the link, find your IMAX.“Every single IMAX theater playing ‘Tenet’ in the US” https://t.co/YAYK0jSrFm via @thisisinsider https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1301583860988166145?s=20

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Movie Review: “Range Runners” find violence on the Appalachian Trail

Mel’s been tested all her life. It started with her Daddy (Carl Clemons-Hopkins) on the track. “You body always fights against you,” he’d growl, as teen Mel whimpered in pain. “It doesn’t tell you what to do!” She ran and … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Disney’s “Mulan,” sans music or laughs

“Beauty and the Beast” remains the gold standard for Disney remaking its animated classics as live action, or “looks like live action” (“The Lion King”) feature films. Stripped of the singing and the comedy that made the animated “Mulan” the … Continue reading

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The second trailer for James Bond, “No Time to Die”

Bad guys everywhere…

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