Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 45 minutes Director: Joel Coen Quick Impressions: First of all, I want to live in the Macbeths’ house! Their castle is amazing! They appear to have no possessions whatsoever. There are absolutely no furnishings in this castle unless someone needs to go to sleep, eat a …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 48 minutes Director: Wes Anderson Quick Impressions: I had just convinced my husband that he would secretly love to watch a film that was a conversation between two couples, in which one couple’s son had murdered the other couple’s son. This took some work on …
Original Release Date: January 18, 1985 (or in festival release March 26, 1984)Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 38 minutesDirectors: Joel Coen (and Ethan Coen) Quick Impressions:This week I desperately wanted to watch Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, but not desperately enough to go to the theater to see …
Viola Davis Age: 55Film: Ma Rainey’s Black BottomRole: Ma Rainey, early Blues legend and vaudeville star who comes to Chicago on a sweltering day in July, 1927, to make a record of some of her hit songs. Though Ma lives up to her reputation for being difficult, she’s the one …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 47 minutesDirector: Chloé Zhao Quick Impressions:What a beautiful film! I went into Nomadland expecting to like it. After all, it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It’s been called the frontrunner for Best Picture for months. I’ve also heard wonderful things about director …
