Born December 9, 1934 in Yorkshire, England, to a physician who was also general practitioner for a local theatre and his wife, the wardrobe mistress, Judith Olivia (Judi) Dench grew up to become one of her country’s greatest actresses. Although she intended to become a set designer, she followed her brother Jeff into acting school…
It must first be noted that British films often perform much better with this group than they do with the Academy. This allows the 5 nominations for No Time to Die and 4 for After Love and Boiling Point to be disregarded. What’s most noticeable is the absence of Spencer, which really should have been…
Page Revisions: (January 30, 2022) Original Release Date: February 18, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith Betsey refuses to eat,…
The first set of new wide releases in what seems like forever, but there isn’t much to see here as they aren’t titles that are likely to ignite interest in the box office, though Jackass Forever is sure to pull plenty of people who don’t care about the pandemic to theater, so it might come…
West Side Story Rating Director Steven Spielberg Screenplay Tony Kushner (Play: Arthur Laurents) Length 2h 36m Starring Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Rita Moreno, Brian d’Arcy James, Corey Stoll, Mike Faist MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here
Last year’s group was largely unknown, but this year, there’s two potential Oscar nominees in the bunch and one person who’s been in several movies already, so it’s a much more familiar group. The Nominations Rising Star Award Ariana DeBose Harris Dickinson Lashana Lynch Millicent Simmonds Kodi Smit-McPhee British Academy of Film & Television Arts…
Page Revisions: (January 30, 2022) Original (March 13, 2022) New Poster (#2) Release Date: February 25, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The film follows Leonard, an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough…
New This Week Jane Campion, who is the presumptive frontrunner for this year’s Oscar for Best Director for The Power of the Dog is already an Oscar winner. She won her first Oscar for her screenplay for 1993’s The Piano, which has been given a transformative new release from Criterion on UHD 4K and Blu-ray.…
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date. So, here is what I watched this past week: West Side Story On the…