Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Ma Dong-seok, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, and Lia McHugh in Eternals

5 Things I Loved about Eternals

Eternals is just another Marvel superhero story. Except it isn’t. It’s a little different and some of those differences really landed well with me. Here’s what I like about this Disney+ streamer.

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Angelina Jolie in Those Who Wish Me Dead

Those Who Wish Me Dead: Angelina Jolie brings thrills and perils

Those Who Wish Me Dead is a pretty standard adventure tale with peril piled upon peril for the hero to overcome. Except, in this story, it’s a heroine – actually two heroines – who save the day. It’s currently in

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Michaela Coel in Black Earth Rising

Review: Black Earth Rising

In Black Earth Rising, Hugo Blick’s 8 part mini-series on Netflix, we watch a metaphoric chess game taking place. Humans claim dominion over the game. They assume different roles on the game board, determined by greed or altruism, the quest

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a scene from Mudbound

A Dozen Wonderful Films Directed by Women from 2017

I always preface these end of year lists with a disclaimer. I don’t see everything. I don’t subscribe to everything and I don’t go out to the theater weekly. Nobody is telling me what to see or paying me to

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The Breadwinner

Watch This: Trailer for The Breadwinner

The Breadwinner is an animated story, ostensibly for kids, although it’s rated PG-13. It’s the story of a young girl who disguises herself as a boy to help her family. It looks like a story about female empowerment that adult

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Sareum Srey Moch in First They Killed My Father

Review: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers from director Angelina Jolie is a child’s experience of the genocide in Cambodia during the reign of the Khmer Rouge.

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Angelina Jolie and Louis Zamperini

AARP Interview with Laura Hillenbrand on Unbroken

The AARP Bulletin ran an interesting story with Laura Hillenbrand talking about her book Unbroken and her relationship with World War II hero Louis Zamperini. The book is being made into a movie, directed by Angelina Jolie. I thought this

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