Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 38 minutes Director: Ridley ScottWriter: David Scarpa Quick Impressions:I’ve been so excited to see this movie, for one reason and one reason only. In the trailer, we see a lot of Napoleon in Egypt, and for twenty-six years, I’ve delighted in a long-standing running joke …
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: 2 hours, 6 minutesDirector: Kornél Mundruczó Quick Impressions:Yesterday afternoon my husband and I said in enthusiastic unison, “Tonight we’ll watch,” and then I finished, “One Night in Miami,” and he said, “Pieces of a Woman.” We blinked at each other in confusion. Then he asked, “What’s One Night …
