Nell Minow's Blog
May 19, 2017
The American Writers Museum
I got a chance to preview the new American Writers Museum in Chicago before it opened on May 16, 2017. It is enchanting, inspiring, genuinely magical. There is a special room about children's literature, with a glorious full-wall mural by my friend, Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky. There are some artifacts, including the legendary original manuscript of
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Best Opening Credits
Opening credits tell you what world you are in. Saul Bass, the all-time great, created brilliant animated opening credits for films like "Anatomy of a Murder," "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World," and "Psycho."
This month's release of "Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2" inspired IndieWire to ask critics about their own favorite opening credit sequences and a couple mentioned...
This month's release of "Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2" inspired IndieWire to ask critics about their own favorite opening credit sequences and a couple mentioned...
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The Women’s Balcony
Israel's biggest box-office hit of 2016, "The Women's Balcony," is a warm-hearted film about a close-knit Orthodox community living in blissful harmony until their synagogue literally collapses in the middle of a bar mitzvah. The rabbi's wife is critically injured and the rabbi becomes depressed and foggy-minded. The men of the congregation are grateful when a charismatic rabbinical student known as Rabbi David (Avraham Aviv Alush), offers to help, bringing along his friends to conduct services...
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Interview: Francesca Capaldi on “Max 2: White House Hero”
"Max 2: White House Hero" star Francesca Capaldi has a very extensive resume for someone born in 2004, including three seasons on the popular series "Dog with a Blog" and the voice of the little red-haired girl in "The Charlie Brown Movie." It was a lot of fun to talk to the charming and remarkably bright and poised young actress about her newest project, Max 2: White House Hero, available on DVD/Blu-Ray and streaming May 23, 2017. I have a copy to give away!...
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May 18, 2017
Everything, Everything
"Everything, Everything," based on the novel by Nicola Yoon, is an updated fairy tale about a princess trapped in a castle and the prince who does not exactly rescue her but gives her a reason to rescue herself.
It's not an enchantment or a curse that keeps her inside. It's an illness that means any exposure to bacteria or a virus could be fatal. Maddy (Amandla Stenberg, Rue in "The Hunger Games") cannot remember a time when she was allowed to be...
It's not an enchantment or a curse that keeps her inside. It's an illness that means any exposure to bacteria or a virus could be fatal. Maddy (Amandla Stenberg, Rue in "The Hunger Games") cannot remember a time when she was allowed to be...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Ah, the family car trip. Often excruciating, frequently tedious, always unforgettable. For this third in the "Wimpy Kid" movie series, based on the wildly popular books by Jeff Kinney, the story moves from the schoolyard to the highway as Greg and the Heffley family leave home for his great-grandmother's birthday party. The kid actors from the first movie have grown up. Remember, one of the characters was played by Chloe Grace Moretz, recently in "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising." And if that...
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Interview: Barry Watson on “Date My Dad”
It was a lot of fun to talk to actor Barry Watson about his new television series, "Date My Dad," a one-hour dramedy on the UP channel about a widower with three daughters -- and a mother-in-law played by Raquel Welch! The show is something of a real-life family affair, as Watson's wife, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and his father-in-law, Robert Wagner ("Hart to Hart," "It Takes a Thief") have guest-starred on the series, which premieres June 2,...
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May 16, 2017
Bond Villains at the Spy Museum
I had a lot of fun visiting the Spy Museum to see their fabulous exhibit about the villains in the series of James Bond films based on the books by Ian Fleming. Aptly titled "Exquisitely Evil," the exhibit includes props and costumes and fascinating behind-the-scenes details about the films and the culture they reflected and influenced over half a century.
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Trailer: Battle of the Sexes — Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
Emma Stone and Steve Carell star in "Battle of the Sexes," the true story of the famous 1972 tennis match between women's champion Billie Jean King and middle-ranked, middle-aged men's player Bobby Riggs, who bragged that even someone at his level could beat any woman. Riggs, a publicity-savvy showman, had already beat Margaret Court and ramped up the intensity of his challenge with sexist comments, at the height of the Equal Rights Amendment era of the women's movement. The movie is...
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May 15, 2017
Ilya Tovbis on the Washington Jewish Film Festival 2017
It was great to catch up with Ilya Tovbis to hear about this year's Washington Jewish Film Festival. I will be hosting "A Classy Broad" and interviewing its subject, trailblazing Hollywood executive Marcia Nasatir and filmmaker Anne Goursaud following the film. The schedule includes a screening of "Clueless" with writer/director Amy Heckerling, and a 45th anniversary screening of "Cabaret."
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