daily stream: stirring some extra stress into the cranberry sauce
2003’s Pieces of April is on Max in the US, Prime in the UK.
Patricia Clarkson
daily stream: attend a delightfully nasty little soiree with Cillian Murphy (and others)
2017’s The Party is on Kanopy in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 29
Patricia Clarkson stars in writer-director Carol Morley’s noir Out of Blue; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 20-22
Lupita Nyong’o stars in mystery horror thriller Us; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Out of Blue movie review: murder most muted
A limp noodle of a cinematic noir that drains Patricia Clarkson of her usual eccentric charisma. And where it aims for intriguingly oblique pseudoscientific philosophizing, it ends up merely obtuse.
The Bookshop movie review: quiet portrait of a woman of words
It’s weighed down by unnecessary narration and a surprising lack of conflict. But star Emily Mortimer and director Isabel Coixet create a character study of a rarity onscreen: an earnestly cerebral woman.
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 Party movie review: bring your own battle
Sally Potter’s brutally snappy take on the classic British drawing-room comedy hauls it into the 21st century with a cutting takedown of the anxieties and hypocrisies of well-off left-wingers.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials movie review: apocalyptic pile-on
The only slightly original element of the first film — the Maze — is gone, and now we’re in not simply a generic afterscape but every sci-fi afterscape.
October Gale movie review: islands in the scream
It’s not very suspenseful or romantic, but the always awesome Patricia Clarkson remains calm and kicks some ass, so that’s something.
