Santa-approved films to chase away the 2020 blues
By Dana Barbuto
We could all use some holiday cheer in 2020, and luckily, you can find some in front of a screen. Pour the eggnog, spike it if you choose, and get all nestled and snug on your couch to watch one these new Santa-approved Christmas-themed movies: Godmothered
Eleanor (Jillian Bell), an aspiring fairy godmother, is on a mission to give a happiness makeover to a reluctant Mackenzie (Isla Fisher), a 40-year-old single mom and widow who lives in Boston in this fantasy comedy. The movie was filmed across the city in January through March. From Charlestown to Copley Square, director Sharon Maguire (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”) bathes the city in a cheerful holiday glow with twinkling lights and rows and rows of festive garland. Other scenes were shot at City Hall, Boston Common and the North End. A deconsecrated church in Lowell was used for the interiors of The Motherland, the make-believe world where fairy go
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Gautaman Bhaskaran
April 05, 2021 16:59
CHENNAI: Oscar-nominated actress Frances McDormand plays a disenfranchised widow in “Nomadland,” where she takes to the road in a van after she loses her job in a mine, which shuts down in 2011. The Nevada town that depended on it crumbles, its zip code is binned.
“Nomadland” has clinched several Academy Award nominations, including those for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director for Chloe Zhao. The first Chinese woman auteur with this recognition, Zhao had in her earlier two films “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” and “The Rider” created a romance with the American West, training her script and camera toward the magical landscape with its huge, thinly populated open places.
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L-R: Willa Skye as Mia, Jillian Shea Spaeder as Jane, Jillian Bell as Eleanor and Isla Fisher as Mackenzie Walsh in GODMOTHERED, exclusively on Disney+.
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L-R: Willa Skye as Mia, Jillian Shea Spaeder as Jane, Jillian Bell as Eleanor and Isla Fisher as Mackenzie Walsh in GODMOTHERED, exclusively on Disney+.
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By Paul Hall
Fairy godmothers have lost their place in the world. There are very few new recruits, but Eleanor (Jillian Bell) still dreams of joining their ranks. Still, godmother classes have not been kind to her youthful exuberance, and the requests for the service of fairy godmothers everywhere have been waning. When Eleanor discovers the request of a 10-year-old girl, she takes the initiative and heads to America from the Motherland (home of the godmothers) in an attempt to prove her worth.
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