Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren star in the alternately touching and enervating comic drama “The Leisure Seeker,” about Ella and John Spencer, who’ve been married for 50 years when they decide to set out on one final road trip in their beloved 1975 Winnebago, the name of which lends the film its title. With nary […]
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Film review: ‘Winchester’
The story of Sarah Winchester, infamous heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms company fortune, is a fascinating one: growing despondent after the death of her infant daughter and then her husband, Sarah (played here by Helen Mirren) moved to San Jose in the late 1800s. There, she purchased a modest property, turning it into a […]
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Film review: “Eye in the Sky”
The War on Terror is given a provocative and suspense-filled exploration in the political thriller “Eye in the Sky,” from South African director Gavin Hood (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” “Rendition”). Helen Mirren stars as Colonel Katherine Powell, a British officer overseeing a joint military operation between Britain and America targeting a terrorist cell in Kenya. The […]
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Film review: “Trumbo”
“Trumbo” documents one principled man’s fight for his ideals, set against one
of the most shameful chapters in Hollywood (and America’s) history.
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Film Review: “Woman In Gold”
You may not know her name, but anyone with even a passing interest in art has seen her face. Viennese socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer was a friend of painter Gustav Klimt, and in 1907 he introduced oil and gold to canvas in “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer,” an image that would go on to grace coffee cups […]
