By Anne Brodie It was an astounding turn of events, when in 1974 William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter Patty Hearst, a socialite and university student appeared armed with a rifle during a bank robbery apparently a willing part of the radical leftist terrorist group based on the Symbionese Liberation Army. Following a deadly shootout with police, she escaped with surviving members and… View Post
By Anne Brodie You may remember being riveted by the events that unfolded in 1974 as 19-year-old heiress Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by terrorist left wing radicals the Symbionese Liberation Army. Kept in a cupboard in the group’s safe house, she reappeared carrying a rifle in an SLA led bank robbery, survived a… View Post
We’ve been raving about Dads Bryce Dallas Howard’s first documentary, for a couple of weeks now and its finally available Apple TV+. Howard gathered her famous dad Ron, grandfather actor Rance, comedians Will Smith, Hasan Minjah, Kenan Thompson, Patton Oswald, Ken Jeong, the two Jimmys, Judd Apatow and regular dads for their input. To say this is an incredibly moving doc is a… View Post
Bryce Dallas Howard is best known as Ron Howard’s actress daughter; she’s starred in prestige films over twenty years including the Jurassic Wolrd films, Rocketman, The Help, Spider-Man 3 and The Village. Now directing shorts and television she’s releasing her first documentary feature Dads in time for Father’s Day on Apple TV+. It’s a funny, emotional, enlighting and often profound tribute to the… View Post
By Anne Brodie Spike Lee looks at the tragic history of African Americans in US wars in his stirring 2.5 hour Da 5 Bloods. Set within the story of four Vietnam veterans (Clarke Peters, Delroy Lindo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., and Norm Lewis) returning to ‘Nam to claim the remains of their comrade and a cache of gold bars they hid, it’s a… View Post
By Anne Brodie Stephanie March, the no-nonsense Attorney Alexandra Cabot in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit aims for comic nonsense in the social influencers mockumentary The Social Ones. I spoke with her about, among other weighty matters, her blouses. The Social Ones is on VOD now.