Tag: Vanessa Kirby
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Eden, survival in the wild
Eden is a Ron Howard film based on real events. I don’t want to say true events, because the only accounts of the events from those who survived tell very different stories.
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Night Always Comes with an outstanding Vanessa Kirby
Night Always Comes is worth seeing. Not because it’s a good movie – it’s barely average – but because Vanessa Kirby gives a jaw dropping performance as a woman trying to save her family from being evicted from their home.
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The World to Come brings period romance to the American frontier
The World to Come is a melancholy tale of the hardships of farming in 1856, brightened briefly by the astonishment and joy of falling in love. The film is available to rent to Prime Video.
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Pieces of a Woman feels unbearably real
Pieces of a Woman tells the story of a parent’s worst nightmare. Vanessa Kirby plays a woman whose child dies just minutes after being born. Everyone in the film deals with the grief in their own way, but Kirby’s Martha is so real in her agony that it’s painful to sit with her for the…
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Review: The Crown, season 2
The Crown season 2 is as lush and grand as season 1. It provides a view of the world in the late 1950s from inside the vulnerable but unbreakable British monarchy. Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and the rest of the pitch perfect cast continue the story behind the facade. Peter Morgan, creator of…
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Watch This: Trailer for Season 2 of The Crown
The Crown on Netflix was one of the best things on television when it began. Season 2 will be available on December 8, and promises more of the same.
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Review: The Crown
Netflix’s 10 part drama The Crown makes the the first years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign a human tale of love and sacrifice. And it makes very clear that being the Queen of English is a terrible job to be stuck with.