Tag: Abigail Breslin

  • Miranda’s Victim review: the victim behind your Miranda rights

    Miranda’s Victim review: the victim behind your Miranda rights

    Miranda’s Victim is a fascinating story about a legal precedent established in 1966 called the Miranda warning. The story is told from the victim’s point of view. Abigail Breslin plays the victim of a rape (trigger warning, folks) by a man named Ernesto Miranda (Sebastian Quinn). The legal cases that followed the victim’s decision to…

  • Review: August: Osage County

    Review: August: Osage County

    There are many films that can make you feel as if you’ve been assaulted by life, by pain, by damage and abuse, by hurt. August: Osage County is one of these. It peers into the way abuse and pain carries down, almost intact, from one generation to the next. In this particular story, the damage…

  • August: Osage County is Full of Promise (Updated)

    August: Osage County is Full of Promise (Updated)

    August: Osage County is the most promising movie, story, cast, whatever, to come along in a very long time. It’s a family drama with many strong women called together by a family crisis at their childhood home in Oklahoma. It’s based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tracy Letts. Letts also wrote the screen play…