AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced
And the winners are…
Ellen Burstyn
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Feb 14
Zosia Mamet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Maika Monroe, Ellen Burstyn, and Catherine Keener are all starring in new movies this week… but good luck finding them on a screen near you.
The Age of Adaline movie review: time enough for love
A pleasant and undemanding romantic drama that takes great care not to upset you unduly with strong emotion or embarrassing passion.
2014 preview: only movies left underived
Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.
One Day (review)
There’s a lot of would-be wrenching stuff that One Day tries to pull that it doesn’t earn.
Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in ‘The Children’s Hour’ (West End): give it a miss
Did director Ian Rickson make the conscious decision to replace emotion with a studied old-fashionedness? If so, why?
guess who snagged a ticket for Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in ‘The Children’s Hour’ in the West End?
Elisabeth Moss from Mad Men is making her West End debut this weekend when the classic drama The Children’s Hour opens on Saturday night. And I’ll be there to see it…
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (review)
There’s retro, and then there’s better left safely in the past.
The Exorcist, Lost Souls, and Possessed movies review: sympathy for the devil
Do screenwriters bother with characterization or motive for Old Scratch? Rarely — the Prince of Darkness is supposed to just coast on his rep as the Ultimate Bad Dude, and yet those selfsame screenwriters must, by storytelling necessity, declaw him, prevent him from taking full advantage of the hellish forces at his command.
