Rami Malek as Freddie, Gwilym Lee as Brian May, Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, Joe Mazzello as John Deacon, and Lucy Boynton as Freddie’s lifelong companion Mary Austin, do an admirable job considering this ‘Twisted Rubik’s Cube’ of a script. Bohemian Rhapsody is a seriously disjointed biopic of Freddie Mercury and Queen from multiple viewpoints. The film simply dances around every […]
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Based on a 1816 short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, this version stars Mackenzie Foy as Clare. At a Christmas ball, Clare goes into her godfather’s (Morgan Freeman) laboratory where he gives her a gift that her deceased mother left her. It’s a silver egg with a key to a magical place. Clare is a brave, […]
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Can You Ever Forgive Me? is adapted from Israel’s popular novel, subtitled Memoirs of a Literary Forger, and is really in tune with a distaff part of a once prosperous author. Her writing included the biographies of Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder, and Dorothy Kilgallen (a journalist and What’s My Line?panelist), but was her métier being mined, even with […]