By Anne Brodie Netflix debuts a clever, of-the-moment mockumentary on the state of things this past year; it’s all painfully, tragically, achingly there. Al Campbell and Alice Mathias’ Death to 2020 puts a deep (state) black comedy spin on Trump, COVID and its possibly true, never-said-out-loud origins, toxic US individualism, election chaos, the rise of the alt-right, nut-jobs, violence, lies, and the many… View Post
By Anne Brodie Emerald Fennell’s sharp revenge thriller Promising Young Woman is a well crafted story featuring a game changing performance by Carey Mulligan. She’s Cassie, victim of a brutal rape and she’s taken it upon herself to wreak vengeance and ruin on predators. The film opens late at night in bar where Cassie’s passed out drunk, legs akimbo, vulnerable… View Post
George Clooney’s new film The Midnight Sky, carries forward his activism on behalf of our planet Earth. Clooney produced and directed the film and plays Arctic researcher Augustine, left alone to man his northern station when colleagues rush home for their last remaining days. The Earth’s being swallowed up by a toxic, man-made cloud and there is no way out…. View Post
Alicia Witt’s all business as a rising exec in Modern Persuasion, a contemporary comic riff on Jane Austen’s social manners novel Persuasion, set in a Manhattan boutique PR firm. Witt’s Wren is approaching forty and happily single, but her aunt, played by Bebe Neuwirth, and her millennial colleagues seem desperate to get her a man. Bets are off when her… View Post
Multi-award-winning British actor David Oyelowo and veteran Mexican actor Demián Bichir star in George Clooney’s climate crisis space drama The Midnight Sky. They’re astronauts confined to a spaceship returning to earth following a stay on a planet friendly to human life. They have no idea Earth is dying. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Bichir and Oyelowo. The… View Post
Famed writer director John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Doubt, Live from Baghdad) traveled home to Ireland to create a modern fable about a guy and a girl, rival farmers who may just be meant for one another. Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken star. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Shanley. Wild Mountain Thyme is available on Digital and… View Post