Daily Archives: October 21, 2021

Movie Preview: Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson — “Red Notice”

The director did “Dodgeball” and “We’re the Millers” and DJohnson’s “Central Intelligence” is behind this Netflix comedy/thriller, about an art thief hunted by Interpol, among others. We’ll see what Rawson Marshall Thurber finds funny in all this Nov. 12.

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Location Scout: Revisiting “The Quiet Man” corner of Ireland

In the late spring of 1951, John Ford and his repertory company decamped from Monument Valley and Hollywood and took passage — paid for by B-Western house Republic Pictures — to The Old Country, the Eire of John Ford’s imagination. … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Maggie Gyllenhaal directs “The Lost Daughter”

This Netflix drama stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman as a haunted mother of “two daughters” on holiday, running into a mother (Dakota Johnson) distracted and overwhelmed and perhaps disinterested in hers. Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard and Jessie Buckley also star … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A pre Valentine’s Day bodice ripper — “Redeeming Love”

Given away, “groomed” for a 19th century life of prostitution, this adaptation of a Francine Rivers stars Abigail Cowen and features Famke Janssen as a villain. Jan. 21.

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