Article – Howard Davis
Winner of both the Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award and the Venice Golden Lion, ‘Nomadland’ is perhaps the ultimately ‘road’ movie as it follows a group of dispossessed and disenfranchised domestic refugees after the economic recession of 2008 …
Hit the Road, Jack – Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’
Winner of both the Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award and the Venice Golden Lion, ‘Nomadland’ is perhaps the ultimately ‘road’ movie as it follows a group of dispossessed and disenfranchised vagabonds after the economic recession of 2008 who find a form of communal refuge in camp sites and trailer parks. The Toronto award is especially prized, as it has preceded a significant number of Oscar nominees and winners in the past, including ‘Green Book,’ (2018), ‘Room’ (2015) ,and ’12 Years a Slave’ (2013). Director Chloé Zhao is also the first woman to win the award since 2011, when Nadine Labaki’s ‘Where Do
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One of the year’s most anticipated films,
James Bond: No Time To Die, has been delayed again and now won’t be released until April 2021.
Despite film releases being delayed and cinemas struggling, an opening appeared for streaming sites such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ to step into the gap.
Here’s our pick of the best films released in 2020.
I’m Your Woman
In this “atmospheric” underworld drama, set in the early 1970s, Rachel Brosnahan (best known for TV’s
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) plays Jean – the pampered wife of a mobster (Bill Heck), said Kevin Maher in The Times. In the opening scene, he hands her a crying baby, saying he has “sourced” it elsewhere. He then disappears, and Jean is told that for her own safety, she must go on the run with his former associate Cal (Arinzé Kene) – a quietly competent African American – for protection. In her old life, everything from cooking to killing was done for Jean; now she must live by her wits, wh