"She wanted a storm to match her rage."…
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This year has been a whirlwind for female-led productions in every sense. We have seen some incredibly dynamic, fascinating, powerful and leading female characters in both film and television.…
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I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to watch the 17 films that I did and so glad I could write about a few of them for FilmEra!…
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A billowing, paradoxical love filled with great sorrow.…
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Advertisements The Upside, a remake of the French film The Intouchables, is a typical drama in which the central characters fall easily into archetypes and archetypal emotions. Bryan Cranston is a wealthy businessman paralyzed from the neck down. He pours over his grief…
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Advertisements Abrasive, cranky, and mostly unpleasant, Lee Israel is recognizably human. Lee is not a supervillain and she is also not absurdly nice. She obsessively relies on others for validation and praise, yet so easily freezes them out when she feels they…
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The Biggest Little Farm is an opulent story of our deep connection to the earth and land that surrounds us. …
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I am so excited to be covering my first film festival and can't wait to get started!…
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Advertisements Bird Box should have been an incredibly exciting, sensory, and inventive thriller, but instead, the life slowly drains from it as we are forced to switch back and forth between the past and the present. The majority of the first half…
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Advertisements Emily Blunt has tackled one of the most challenging roles of her career, if not because of its emotional weight or physical difficulty, but because of its insane amount of cultural significance and influence. In 1964, Julie Andrews became Mary Poppins,…
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