Tag: Carey Mulligan
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Beef, season 2, rage against the rich
Beef brings a whole new story and cast to season 2. Instead of the road rage we saw in season 1, the second season deals with rage against people with money and power by people with no money and power. Income inequality is the topic of season 2.
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The Ballad of Wallis Island, a quiet gem
The Ballad of Wallis Island is a charming and funny tale about learning to live with lost love. It’s about a lonely man who lives on an island and what he decides to do with his large haul of lottery winnings.
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Saltburn: another horrible man wins everything
Saltburn is a morality tale, or perhaps a parable. It doesn’t end with a lesson, but a warning. It’s the story of Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a scholarship student at Oxford who presents himself as poor and orphaned. He pretends to be kind and helpful to befriend Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), and Felix buys into…
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Maestro, the intimate side of Leonard Bernstein
Maestro tells the story of Leonard Bernstein’s marriage and family and of his relationships with men. It’s intimate and inward. It acknowledges his genius and his iconic status in American life. It’s more about relationships than music. The directing and acting in the film were brilliantly done, but the overall feel and impact of the…
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She Said, going public with charges of sexual abuse
She Said tells the story of the work done at the New York Times to expose the history of Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator. It’s a powerful look at the work and effort that went into preparing the story and making it public.
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Promising Young Woman, a revenge story like no other
Promising Young Woman is a brilliant new treatment of the revenge movie. It’s fresh and funny and barbed and full of heart. A masterwork. Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, the film is available to rent on Prime Video.
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The Dig unearths an Anglo Saxon treasure
The Dig is based on a true story about the excavation of an Anglo Saxon era ship from a mound on an English manor. The site was Sutton Hoo. The story is set in 1938 against the background of impending war. It’s on Netflix.
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Brain Dump: Collateral, Rise, For the People
Welcome to the scattered thoughts swirling around on the way out of my head in what I charmingly call a brain dump. This edition will talk about Collateral, Rise, and For the People.
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Review: Mudbound
Mudbound grabs you from the first moments and won’t let go. It twists you up, wrings you breathless, and spits you out gasping. Finally, whew, finally, it shows you a break in the cloudy skies to let in a beam of sunshine.