HILLBILLY ELEGY Review — A Serviceable Vehicle for Award-Worthy Performances
Lisa Johnson Mandell’s Hillbilly Elegy review says performances by Amy Adams and Glenn Close are sure to strum up Oscar attention. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis was written by J. D. Vance, a story of addiction, relationships, one family’s take on Appalachian values, and overcoming incredible odds. The book…
VICE Review – Making Political Satire Great Again
Vice Review – A stylized, grim and funny Dick Cheney biopic starring a shape-shifting Christian Bale. Widely considered the most powerful VP ever, Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) was a Halliburton CEO who put loyalists in high-places in the government, set up Guantanamo Bay detention camp, authorized bringing down planes on 9/11, made controversial use of…
ARRIVAL Review – Hauntingly Cerebal, It Will Make You Think and Think Again
ARRIVAL Review by James Mandell @cerealatomic I’m a sci-fi lover, and discovered author Ted Chiang about two years ago. He wrote “Story of Your Life” in his book of the same title, a collection of short stories that were the most quietly riveting and creative I’d ever read. The movie is an account of an…
How to Wear Green on St. Patrick’s Day
Out here in Hollywood, even the least Irish among us wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. Even though there aren’t as many descendants of the Emerald Isle on the West Coast as there are on the East Coast, pinching anyone who isn’t wearing the designated color is a big thing here–we’re a…
