Section: Movies
The Ones That Got Away With It: A Celebration Of Bad Bitches In Film
by Leah Beckmann | May 12, 2016 at 8:57 pm
|
|
This weekend, indie film director Whit Stillman opens his latest movie, Love & Friendship. Starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny, the movie is based on Lady Susan, an epistolary novella by Jane Austen about a crafty and charming widow who conquers high society and shockingly goes unpunished. Austen abstained from publishing Lady Susan (it was... Read more »
|
|
No Comments
Top
|
Money Monster: Bankers, Crooks, George, and Julia
by Amy Nicholson | May 12, 2016 at 5:55 pm
|
|
If Bernie Sanders is elected president, Money Monster will be the only movie allowed on Air Force One. Jodie Foster’s Wall Street thriller is furious at everyone, from the corporate crooks swindling decent Americans out of their savings to the callow media chortling as the country plummets toward disaster. George Clooney plays Lee Gates, a... Read more »
|
|
No Comments
Top
|
What Is A Jodie Foster Film?
by Teo Bugbee | May 11, 2016 at 9:18 pm
|
|
The challenge facing Jodie Foster in her return to film directing is a bit of a paradox. It’s been so long since Foster’s heyday starring in movies like Silence of the Lambs or Maverick that it can be easy to forget the enormity of her stardom, making it a little tough to market movies based... Read more »
|
|
No Comments
Top
|
|
|
|
