GLOW Season 3
GLOW’s secret weapon is Bash Howard. Chris Lowell, always destined to be runner-up in the ‘Veronica Mars’ boyfriend game, is shockingly good in the role.
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Tag Archives: Period Drama
Mowgli
Word to the wise – it gets very dark at one point. Almost Artax-level dark.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Seriously, if you want to know how to shoot a scene in a confined space, this is the feature to study.
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Atomic Blonde
Theron looks great smoking cigarettes under neon light – but style counts for nothing when you care not a jot for your protagonists, or when their story is so palpably dull.
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Dunkirk
For all the chaos going on, there’s very little in the way of exposition.
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The Beguiled
Suffice to say that The Beguiled is a nifty little tale that isn’t quite a thriller, isn’t quite a wartime drama and isn’t quite an historical romance.
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Wonder Woman
If you only see one superhero movie this year, make it this one.
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Kong: Skull Island
I’d even go so far as to say this is a better Jurassic Park sequel than the mystifyingly popular Jurassic World.
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Jasper Jones
Racism and sexism lurk around the edges of the interpersonal drama, though there isn’t anything particularly nuanced about the depiction.
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Hidden Figures
The packaging may be rather generic – this is a period drama about social justice, with all the dramatic beats you’d expect – but the writing is wonderfully nuanced.
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