Tag: Laura Linney

  • The Miracle Club: EldersRock on the way to Lourdes

    The Miracle Club: EldersRock on the way to Lourdes

    The Miracle Club merely needs to slap up a photo of the main characters, which include Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney, to get me to agree to watch. May I say it? EldersRock! We’re off on a journey in search of healing, but some things are hard to heal.

  • Suncoast review, learning to live with loss

    Suncoast review, learning to live with loss

    Suncoast tells a semi-autobiographical story from writer and director Laura Chinn about a small Florida family dealing with the impending loss of a son and brother to brain cancer. That sounds grim, and in many ways it is, but it’s also about life and coming of age. It’s as full of life as it is…

  • Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the icon’s own story

    Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the icon’s own story

    Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, from director Lana Wilson, takes a look at Brooke Shields life and career from her point of view now as a woman in her 50s who has survived as a famous icon for her entire life.

  • Genius, the man who edited Thomas Wolfe

    Genius, the man who edited Thomas Wolfe

    Genius, the 2016 version starring Colin Firth and Jude Law, is about Scribner editor Max Perkins (Firth) and his efforts to corral the language of Thomas Wolfe (Law) into marketable books.

  • The Last Movie Stars, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

    The Last Movie Stars, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

    The Last Movie Stars from director Ethan Hawke is a love letter to two Hollywood icons, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. But it’s more than an exploration of this famous couple and their lives together. It’s a look at Hollywood history for the last 60 or 70 years, crammed with stars from both then and…

  • Tales of the City, 2019 style

    Tales of the City, 2019 style

    Tales of the City was revived in 2019 from the stories by Armistead Maupin. Lauren Morelli is the creator behind the new series, which I found to be very much a series of right now. Contemporary.