Category: Movies
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Wicked: One Wonderful Night
Wicked: One Wonderful Night is a Wicked variety show TV special. The stars from Wicked all appeared and sang, danced, talked, and joked about the musical and each other. They shared the songs, but presented them in different ways. There were a few behind the scenes moments and some guest spots.
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Hedda, a classic reworked by Nia DaCosta
Hedda is Nia DaCosta’s take on the play Hedda Gabler written by Henrik Ibsen. She wrote the screenplay with several changes from the original. Although the character Hedda remained a scheming manipulator, her race was changed to a woman of color (Tessa Thompson). Hedda’s former lover, Eileen Lovborg (Nina Hoss), gender switched to be a…
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A House of Dynamite, political thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow
A House of Dynamite delivers a straightforward message: nuclear war is insanity. Stockpiles of nuclear weapons are insanity. We live in a house stuffed to the rafters with dynamite and we choose to keep living in it.
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The Substance, body horror times a million
The Substance is a horror movie, more specifically a body horror movie. I sometimes miss the point of horror movies but this one I definitely get. It’s about how piggish, gross, men expect women to alter themselves to look young and beautiful for the piggish, gross men. Why haven’t we burned down the patriarchy yet?
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A Kind of Madness, family drama from South Africa
A Kind of Madness is a family story from South Africa. It includes scenes from the past, the present, and from the broken mind of the family matriarch. Most of the past scenes come from the mother’s mind and what she remembers is fractured and sometimes not real.
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Quick Takes on films and TV
This post is one of those quick looks at several films and TV shows I don’t feel the need to write a complete review about. Today’s topics will be the live action How to Train Your Dragon, Task, Maintenance Required, and Peacemaker, season 2.
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Other People’s Children, French drama with Virginie Efira
Other People’s Children (Les enfants des autres) comes from France. It stars Virginie Efira as a woman who wants to have a child but her biological clock is running out of time. She forms a deep bond with her boyfriend’s child.
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What Happens Later, Meg Ryan brings some magic
What Happens Later is classified as a romcom. Writer and director Meg Ryan calls it a romcom. Good grief, she even dedicated to the movie to Nora Ephron, her romcom mentor. Well, I have a bone to pick with Meg Ryan because this movie is not a romcom. It’s a love story. A magical, life…
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Winner, based on the true story of Reality Winner
Winner is based on the true story of Reality Winner. She is a veteran of six years in the Air Force, where she worked translating Arabic, Dari, and Pashto. After her stint in the Air Force, she went to work for the NSA. While at the NSA she leaked some documents about Russian interference in…