Nell Minow's Blog, page 18
March 2, 2017
Logan
A lot of Wolverine fans love the elegaic final chapter, "Logan," but I do not. Perhaps if you are deep in the weeds of the MCU, you will see meaning and closure in "Logan," but for me, even as a Comic-Con-attending fangirl, it was slow and depressing, and not in a good way.
Wolverine fans know that he is a loner, only intermittently joining forces with the X-Men, and his stories often show the influence of classic western sagas. "Logan" is set in the west, and its dry, dusty terrain fits the...
Wolverine fans know that he is a loner, only intermittently joining forces with the X-Men, and his stories often show the influence of classic western sagas. "Logan" is set in the west, and its dry, dusty terrain fits the...
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Table 19
I know. They hate the term. But it is impossible to talk about Mark and Jay Duplass (as writers, anyway, aside from their work as actors, directors, and producers) without the dreaded term "mumblecore," which was applied to their early microbudget work because of the improvisational, shaggy-dog, millennial-ness of their work. Traces of that remain in "Table 19," cross-bred with a more conventional romantic comedy, and it turns out to be a welcome blend of sweet and sour. This is not the...
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The Shack
"The Shack," based on the best-seller by William P.Young seeks to provide comfort and healing for those struggling with a terrible loss and with something even worse -- the fear that tragedy has no purpose and the doubt that pain engenders about whether life makes sense. Can there be meaning in a world of senseless tragedy, where the innocent suffer? The book's subtitle is Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity, and...
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Before I Fall
Who would not like to go back in time to correct a mistake? Can you correct a mistake without making it worse?
Lauren Oliver's debut novel Before I Fall is a bittersweet "Groundhog Day" story about a pretty, popular high school senior named Sam ("Everybody Wants Some!!'s" Zoey Deutch) who lives her last day over and over until she figures out why.
Sam wakes up on "Cupid Day" (her school's version of Valentine's Day), happy, confident, and looking...
Lauren Oliver's debut novel Before I Fall is a bittersweet "Groundhog Day" story about a pretty, popular high school senior named Sam ("Everybody Wants Some!!'s" Zoey Deutch) who lives her last day over and over until she figures out why.
Sam wakes up on "Cupid Day" (her school's version of Valentine's Day), happy, confident, and looking...
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March 1, 2017
Trailer: Despicable Me 3
Trey Parker provides the voice of the new bad guy in this third chapter, as Balthazar Bratt, a child star from the 1980s, who hatches a scheme for world domination that must be foiled by Gru (Steve Carell) and Lucy (Kristen Wiig). ...
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March 2017 — Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters This Month
Happy March! Here's what I'm most looking forward to this month.
FRIDAY, MARCH 3
Before I Fall -- Zoey Deutch plays a high school girl who lives the same day over and over until she learns to pay attention to what is going on around her.
Table 19 -- Anna Kendrick stars in a romantic comedy about the people assigned to the worst table at a wedding.
The Shack -- The Christian best-seller is now a film about a father devastated by grief who gets as message from...
FRIDAY, MARCH 3
Before I Fall -- Zoey Deutch plays a high school girl who lives the same day over and over until she learns to pay attention to what is going on around her.
Table 19 -- Anna Kendrick stars in a romantic comedy about the people assigned to the worst table at a wedding.
The Shack -- The Christian best-seller is now a film about a father devastated by grief who gets as message from...
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February 28, 2017
Trailer: The Dinner with Richard Gere and Steve Coogan
Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall, and Steve Coogan star in "The Dinner," based on the international best-seller by Dutch author Herman Koch. At an elegant dinner the topic of conversation is far from elegant -- what to do about two 15-year-old boys who have done something terrible. ...
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Did This is Us Break Your Heart in Memphis?
I love "This is Us." I even love the way it makes me cry. Who thought washing machines could bring tears?
Everyone who watched it cried in the last episode, when Randall and William went to Memphis for some unfinished business and some farewells. Here the two actors, Sterling K. Brown and Ron Cephas Jones talk about making that emotional story.
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Everyone who watched it cried in the last episode, when Randall and William went to Memphis for some unfinished business and some farewells. Here the two actors, Sterling K. Brown and Ron Cephas Jones talk about making that emotional story.
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Interview: Jon Manning on the Burlesque Documentary “The Glitter Tribe”
Jon Manning is the director of Burlesque: Heart of the Glitter Tribe, an engaging and enlightening new film about modern-day burlesque performers who, as one of them says, combine "dancing, sexy, pretty, funny" in their performances. They have great passion for their work, their audience, and their fellow performers and they love what they do. Another one says in the film that when people tell her she will end up a spinster because of her burlesque...
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February 27, 2017
The Sense of an Ending
Life is messy. Stories are our way of cleaning it up to help us try to make sense of it. Some of those stories are in books or movies, but most of those stories are just the editing each of us does all the time in telling ourselves and others who we are. Whether it is explaining to a traffic cop why you should not get a ticket or the difference between the "how we met" story of a couple who are still together and one who has split up, or living in a version of Lake Woebegone, "where all the...
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