Posts with the tag 'drama'
tick, tick… Boom- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. The film follows Jon (Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical. Days before he’s due to showcase his work in a make-or-break performance, Jon is feeling the pressure from everywhere.”
11/10/21- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
Tags: drama, musical
November 10th, 2021
BELFAST- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “BELFAST is a movie straight from Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain.”
11/10/21- Very good reviews for this drama. TRDB.
12/1/21- I liked this movie very much. Lucky there were sub-titles. TRDB.
Tags: drama
November 10th, 2021
ALL IS FORGIVEN- 2007. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A father and daughter reunite 11 years after the father’s drug addiction took control and tore their family apart.”
11/5/21- Just a few reviews and they are mixed. This movie is from 2007. TRDB.
Tags: drama
November 5th, 2021
BEANS- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.”
11/5/21- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama
November 5th, 2021
THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Timothy Reyes hustles through the NYC subway system. Oblivious passers-by don’t notice he is popping pills, fading, killing himself. Discovered dead on an empty train, no one knows him to be a combat veteran. His mentor, Will LaRue blames himself and wrestles with the guilt, and a resurgence of his own demons from war. His refuge: a multi-generational community of artist veterans, who make handmade paper out of military uniforms. Shredding them, pulverizing them — uniforms are reconstituted into paper, onto which the veterans express their rage, humor, memories, and hopes, in the form of art and poetry.”
11/5/21- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
Tags: drama
November 5th, 2021
HIVE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “HIVE is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije (Yllka Gashi), who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls together the other widows in her community to launch a business selling a local food product. Finding healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands–but their will to begin living independently is met with hostility. The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her,”
11/5/21- Excellent reviews for this drama from Albania. TRDB.
Tags: drama, Foreign
November 5th, 2021
THE HARDER THEY FALL- 2021. “Synopsis by Netflix. “When outlaw Nat Love learns that the man who killed his parents, Rufus Buck, is getting out of prison, Nat assembles his former gang (including ex-love Stagecoach Mary) to exact revenge. But Rufus has a badass crew of his own.”
11/5/21- Very good reviews for this Western. TRDB.
11/5/21- I did not like this mish-mosh of a movie one bit. Too many bandits, too many gangs and nearly impossible to follow the action. TRDB
Tags: drama, western
November 5th, 2021
SPENCER- 2021. Synopsis by Netflix. “Princess Diana’s exit from Britain’s royal family is recounted in this historical drama set at the queen’s Sandringham estate during the 1991 Christmas holidays, where Diana makes the fateful decision to leave Prince Charles.”
11/9/21- Fairly good reviews. TRDB.
Tags: drama
November 5th, 2021
SPENCER- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. SPENCER is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.”
11/3/21- Very good reviews. TRDB.
Tags: drama
November 3rd, 2021
THE BETA TEST- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, murder and infidelity.”
11/3/21- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
Tags: drama
November 3rd, 2021
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