Tag: Lily Rabe

  • The Great Lillian Hall with a great Jessica Lange

    The Great Lillian Hall with a great Jessica Lange

    The Great Lillian Hall looks at a famous Broadway actress as she faces the fading health that will mean the end of her long career. Jessica Lange plays Lillian Hall and gives her character heart and pain as she moves into the last part of her life and fame. There are some spoilers ahead.

  • Love and Death: Elizabeth Olsen is extraordinary

    Love and Death: Elizabeth Olsen is extraordinary

    Love and Death stars Elizabeth Olsen in a brilliant performance as Candy Montgomery, the Texas housewife who admitting killing her neighbor and friend with an axe.

  • The Underground Railroad reimagines history

    The Underground Railroad reimagines history

    The Underground Railroad is a 10 part series on Prime Video. It was created and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on The Underground Railroad: A Novel* by Colson Whitehead. It’s the story of a runaway slave and the man who pursued her. It was both brutal and beautiful.

  • Tell Me Your Secrets, an entire symphony of evil

    Tell Me Your Secrets, an entire symphony of evil

    Tell Me Your Secrets is a complex crime series streaming on Prime Video. It operates on the premise that if you keep throwing every known evil at the cast and most of it sticks, you soon have a suspenseful tale to tell.

  • Review: The Undoing

    Review: The Undoing

    The Undoing earns my praise with its fascinating mystery, its skillful trickery and misdirection, and its suspenseful and thrilling finale. Created by David E. Kelley and directed by Susanne Bier, this series on HBO Max is a masterclass in storytelling and direction.

  • Review: Miss Stevens

    Review: Miss Stevens

    Miss Stevens is a surprising indie about a teacher and 3 students who go to a drama competition. Lily Rabe stars as Miss Stevens, the teacher.