“Being the Ricardos” is writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s dramatization of one week of production of the iconic TV series, “I Love Lucy”. The episode depicted is “Ethel and Fred Fight”, named on scripts as Season 2 Episode 4. (In reality, “Fred and Ethel Fight” was the 22nd episode of Season 1, filmed in early 1952. While […]
“Being the Ricardos” stars Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball. This isn’t the first time the Oscar winner had played the leading lady of a sitcom. 2005’s “Bewitched” saw Kidman as Isabel Bigelow, a real witch who’s cast to play Samantha Stephens on a remake series of the ‘60s classic. Her co-star is popular Hollywood actor […]
If you’re into the world of TV news and current events, then “Bombshell” has to be one of your most highly anticipated movies of 2019. It’s also one of the fastest turnarounds for a narrative film “based on a true story”. Yes, the sexual harassment case involving FOX News chief Roger Ailes was pre-Harvey Weinstein/ […]
Director John Crowley’s follow-up to the lovely, heartbreaking 2015 romance “Brooklyn” is an ambitious one. “The Goldfinch” is based on author Donna Tartt’s nearly 800-page, 2013 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This film version is an epic soap opera, with a 1654 painting of the title bird at its epicenter. The painting […]
Prior to seeing any movie at a theater these days, we’re all forced to sit through anywhere from 6 to 8 previews. And if you go to the movies as often as I do, you end-up watching the same trailers over and over again – to the point where every edit and line of dialogue […]
Nicole Kidman is having quite a 2017. In January, she received her fourth Oscar nomination – her first in the Supporting Actress category – for her excellent performance in “Lion”. Her role of Celeste Wright on the HBO miniseries “Big Little Lies”, opposite Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley, has been garnering Emmy attention. And now, she’s ready to […]
The beauty of “Lion” is its very simple, yet extremely powerful story. It’s based on a true one (and the less you know about it going in, the better). The way screenwriter Luke Davies and first-time feature film director Garth Davis (“Top of the Lake”) have adapted “Lion” from the page (the 2013 memoir, A Long […]