Tag: Bill Nighy

  • The Wild Robot review, animated children’s story about belonging

    The Wild Robot review, animated children’s story about belonging

    The Wild Robot, from DreamWorks Animation, tells a story of not belonging, finding your place in the world, and thinking for yourself. It’s a beautiful message that will resonate with children. It is rated PG and does have a few scary scenes.

  • Joy review: the birth of IVF

    Joy review: the birth of IVF

    Joy is based on the true story of how IVF came to be. It documents several years of struggle that a scientist, a gynecologist, and a nurse went through to find a way to make it work and see the first child born of IVF. Since then over 12 million babies have been born by…

  • Role Play review: another secret assassin story

    Role Play review: another secret assassin story

    Role Play is just like The Family Plan, which I reviewed last week. Except the secret assassin in the family is a woman, not a man. And except The Family Plan was kind of funny and Role Play is on the tired, flat side. Also except, I thought Kaley Cuoco was miscast as the killer.…

  • The Kindness of Strangers moves slowly toward survival

    The Kindness of Strangers moves slowly toward survival

    The Kindness of Strangers is a slow moving story of one woman’s escape from an abuser. Zoe Kazan plays the woman. She took her two sons and fled in the middle of the night. What happened when she reached New York City forms the story. There are some spoilers ahead. The film is on Prime…

  • Hope Gap stars a brilliant Annette Bening

    Hope Gap stars a brilliant Annette Bening

    Hope Gap tells of the breakup of a 29 year marriage. The script is an ear wowing flow of rhythm and poetry. Annette Bening as the wife, Grace, does an amazing job delivering on the poetry and pain of the story – she’s simply brilliant. You can see Hope Gap on Prime Video.

  • Review: The Bookshop

    Review: The Bookshop

    The Bookshop, from Catalan director Isabel Coixet, is so very, very English that the emotional life of the characters is buried deep. Almost no action and an unnecessary voice over explaining things make this an unusual but ultimately moving film.

  • Review: Their Finest

    Review: Their Finest

    Their Finest tells the story of Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) who struggles to write the script for a British propaganda film about World War II while living in London during the blitz.

  • Watch This: Trailer for Their Finest

    Watch This: Trailer for Their Finest

    Their Finest is a female driven story about a World War II script writer. Gemma Arterton plays copywriter Catrin Cole, who lands a job writing women’s dialogue for war films at a British ministry.

  • Surprise! Old People are Underrepresented in Film

    Surprise! Old People are Underrepresented in Film

    A new study from the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism provides the data showing what we all know already – older people are ignored, underrepresented, or trivialized in film.

  • New Previews for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    New Previews for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel will release in late March 2015 in the US. I will be there, ready to be delighted by this wonderful cast and charming story. New in this edition of the story will be Richerd Gere, Tamsin Greig and David Strathairn. Still around are Dev Patel, Maggie Smith, Tina Desai,…

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