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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

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / January 20, 2022 / Angelina Jolie, Barry Keoghan, Brian Tyree Henry, Chloé Zhao, Eternals, Gemma Chan, Harish Patel, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Lia McHugh, Ma Dong-seok, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Women Directors

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.

Nomadland: real people, real lives

5 Comments / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / February 22, 2021 / Chloé Zhao, David Strathairn, Frances McDormand, Nomadland, Women Directors

Nomadland from director Chloé Zhao fits neatly with her previous work. She finds a story to tell and uses real people and their real lives to tell it. You can watch this one streaming on Hulu.

Irene Bedard, John Reddy, and Jashaun St. John in Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Review: Songs My Brothers Taught Me

1 Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / September 6, 2016 / Chloé Zhao, Forest Whitaker, Irene Bedard, Jashaun St. John, John Reddy, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Taysha Fuller, trailers, Women Directors

Songs My Brothers Taught Me features a cast of Oglala Lakota people from the Pine Ridge Reservation in a moving story about life on the reservation. It is chiefly about the lives of Johnny Winters (John Reddy) and his younger sister Jashaun (Jashaun St. John).