She was indeed. Despite having a stage career, She apears to have been her one and only film credit. Neither imdb nor wikipedia list any others (aside from Academy award shows and the like). She went into politics in the 1930s and ran for congress in 1944 and won.
Definitely one of the top 3 films to feature a runaway merry-go-round.
The Marvels: A fun film to watch on the big screen. Kamala Khan’s fangirling over Captain Marvel is cute. The herding cats scene is HILARIOUS. Stay for the between-credits scene.
And you thought…?
I love Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange. He is absolutely perfect for the role.
However…I don’t like what they did with Wanda Maximoff. It just felt wrong to me.
When I think of Helen Gahagan I think of the Tom Lehrer song mentioning her.
Always Be My Maybe
Highly recommended.
Still very fun four years later. A hilarious comedy that loses a bit of steam near the end, but is still mostly fun and light-hearted.
It streams on Netflix, so check it out for sure.
I just watched Silverado, a film I may not have seen since the 80s. What a lot of very silly fun, and quite the list of stars, including the first appearance of Jeff Fahey, who was just a couple of years from his time at the Joffrey School of Ballet and Broadway ballet appearances. Brian Dennehy chews the scenery better than anyone else in an entire film full of scenery chewers.
Totally agree. The trailers really did not do it justice - the comedy is relentless (“If it’s top secret, why is it see-through?”), the material for Larson and Parris is far superior to what they got in their previous appearances, the place-swapping fight scenes are great and they even managed to make the villain (who is pretty much just there to stitch the story together) somewhat sympathetic.
I continue to maintain that Vellani is an absolute gem, and would be interested to see her in some non-superhero role at some point.
Me, too, originally. It’s the first time I ever heard her name. But now I think of She Who Must Be Obeyed.
And not in the Hilda Rumpole sense.
I was just wondering if I should make a Rumpole reference.
And thanks, Hurrilon, for the review.
Just saw him over the weekend in a first-time-in-a-long-time viewing of The Russians are Coming. The Russians are Coming. Even in a small part, he ingested much dry wall.
I don’t think he’s in that movie…
Damn! Brian Keith. This is an error I make all the time, so I should have been more careful.
I don’t confuse the actors; I just confuse their names.
What they did with Wanda Maximoff is turn her into the “overemotional woman gone crazy” archetype in which they tied her “feminine” neurosis directly to her status as a mother.
I didn’t like it, either.
Brian Denehy’s acting tic was gritting his teeth. Brian Keith’s was rubbing his face.
Saw him doing The Iceman Cometh with Nathan Lane in Chicago. Amazing show.
Dennehy also inspired the greatest hip hop song dedicated to an actor ever. Pour out an O’Doul’s for the king.
Speaking of films with Brian Dennehy, two of lighter fare are F/X and F/X2. The former is the first film with Angela Bassett. They are both action thriller movies and I remember enjoying both of them though the second mostly because they used the characters from the first one. And now that I am reminded of them I will need to seek them out to watch again…
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Totally Killer
Recommended.
A horror comedy similar in spirit to Happy Death Day, but sadly not as funny. A girl travels back to 1987 to try to stop a slasher from killing numerous people, her mother included. It tries to get jokes out of how different 1987 is from 2023, but only some of them work. Honestly, the world just wasn’t different enough to warrant all the jokes.
Anyway, fun movie and actually worth a watch. It streams on Prime.
I had a good time at It’s a Wonderful Knife, which, as the title implies, is It’s a Wonderful Life recast as a slasher movie. (just in time for the holiday season!). The teenage heroine is in the George Bailey and the masked “Angel of Death” terrorizing the town is…well, I won’t spoil it.
The movie hews well to the tropes of the slasher flick, but has some nice twists that keep the audience guessing. Also, a very LGBTQ friendly film without making a big deal about gender.