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Review: Luce

4 Comments / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / February 26, 2020 / Kelvin Harrison Jr., Luce, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Naomi Watts, Norbert Leo Butz, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth

Luce is a challenging story because you’re never clear about what’s really happening. The four main characters turn in brilliant performances. That makes digging through the subtleties even harder.

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Catherine McCormack and Rufus Sewell in Dangerous Beauty

Review: Dangerous Beauty

1 Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / October 17, 2018 / Catherine McCormack, Dangerous Beauty, Jacqueline Bisset, Margaret Rosenthal, Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt, Rufus Sewell, trailers

Netflix just put Dangerous Beauty in its rotation as a new arrival. This 20 year old film was a treat. It’s based on the true story of a real, very badass, woman.

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Review: Fair Game

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / September 12, 2018 / Chris Matthews, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dan Rather, David Andrews, Dick Cheney, Doug Liman, Fair Game, Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Naomi Watts, Polly Holliday, Sam Shepard, Sean Penn, The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat's Memoir: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, Valarie Plame

I find it interesting that 2010’s Fair Game is back on Netflix now as a trending selection. This is the true story of how the George W. Bush administration used disinformation and the outing of one of their own CIA

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Brie Larson and Shree Crooks in The Glass Castle

Review: The Glass Castle

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / August 28, 2018 / Andrew Lanham, Brie Larson, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jeannette Walls, Josh Caras, Max Greenfield, Naomi Watts, Sarah Snook, Shree Crooks, The Glass Castle, trailers, Woody Harrelson

The Glass Castle gut punched me when I read it about 10 years ago. It’s now a film. As a film, it still conveys the emotional wreckage of a dysfunctional family upbringing in vivid ways.

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Review: 3 Generations

2 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / September 6, 2017 / 3 Generations, About Ray, Elle Fanning, Gaby Dellal, Jill Soloway, Linda Emond, Naomi Watts, Nikole Beckwith, Sam Trammell, Susan Sarandon, Tate Donovan, transgender, Transparent, Women Directors

For all the problems and rebranding involved in bringing 3 Generations to the screen, I expected it to be a mess. It was actually quite good. The emotions were real and alive. The performances were excellent.

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Review: Season 1 of Gypsy

12 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / July 7, 2017 / A Beautiful Mind, Billy Crudup, Blythe Danner, Breaking Bad, Brenda Vaccaro, Brooke Bloom, Coky Giedroyc, Gypsy, Karl Glusman, Lisa Rubin, Lucy Boynton, Maren Heary, Melanie Liburd, Naomi Watts, Poorna Jagannathan, Ring of Fire, Sam Taylor-Johnson, season 1, Sophie Cookson, Stevie Nicks, transgender, Victoria Mahoney, Women Directors

I almost didn’t watch Gypsy. There were so many bad reviews. I sometimes forget my cardinal rule: I generally disagree with critics. I saw one good review, and a gay girlfriend told me she liked it a lot. To get

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Watch This: Trailer for Gypsy

2 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 15, 2017 / Billy Crudup, Brenda Vaccaro, Coky Giedroyc, Gypsy, Jonathan Caren, Karl Glusman, Lisa Ruben, Melanie Liburd, Naomi Watts, Sam Taylor-Johnson, season 1, Sophie Cookson, Victoria Mahoney, Women Directors

Gypsy is a new Netflix original starring Naomi Watts as a therapist who is apparently more twisted and in need of help than her patients.

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Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe in The Sea of Trees

Review: The Sea of Trees

5 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / November 25, 2016 / Gus Van Sant, Jordan Gavaris, Ken Watanabe, Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, The Sea of Trees

The Sea of Trees is a mystical, mysterious, spiritual journey about love. The trees are a forest called Aokigahara, known as The Sea of Trees. It’s a dense forest at the base of Japan’s Mount Fuji where people go to

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Bill Murray and Jaeden Lieberher in St. Vincent

Review: St. Vincent

Leave a Comment / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / September 5, 2016 / Ann Dowd, Bill Murray, Chris O'Dowd, Donna Mitchell, Jaeden Lieberher, Kimberly Quinn, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Nate Corddry, St. Vincent, Terrence Howard, Theodore Melfi, trailers

St. Vincent is one of those feel-good movies where you cry a little at the end but everything works out fine. I love that kind of stuff, so I enjoyed watching this movie get there. Plus, it has a fantastic

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Review: Adore

4 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / March 11, 2014 / Adore, Anne Fontaine, James Frecheville, Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, trailers, Women Directors, Xavier Samuel

Let me explain what you’re looking at in the poster for Adore. If it makes you cringe, the you don’t need to bother to read the rest of this review. From the left you see Lil (Naomi Watts), a 40

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