The score by Ingrid Michaelson is key. Characters sing what regular people feel in such circumstances, and the songs deliver that directly to the audience.
The last time we saw James Bond he was being blown to bits. Sorry, but “No Time to Die” is three-years old now and the spoiler statue of limitations has expired. Chris Corbould blew him up. He’d been trying to...
It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter and banged out a novel that began, “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning."
Annette Bening and Sam Neill play a bored retired couple in West Palm Beach who add some spark to their lives (and angst for their four adult children) when they invite a young woman to live with them.
The most powerful moment comes not as the walls close in on the two doomed lovers, but when Amonasro admonishes Aida to "think of our suffering people. You are their only hope."