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Blithe Spirit is so aggressively un-funny it might make audiences unfamiliar with the script s successful track record wonder why it was ever a success in the first place. Of all the movie s sins, this is the biggest. Coward requires a light touch and nerves of steel. His characters are witty and heartless, with glittering carapaces of dazzling verbal weaponry. They are self-involved, impulsive, and careless of consequences. When Coward is done badly, the plays come off as arch and stilted, the characters paper cut-outs representing generalized haughty attitudes. It s all-style, no substance. When Coward is done well, and you know it when you see it, there s nothing better. Unfortunately, Coward is nowhere in sight in this new adaptation. Even his famous dialogue doesn t stand out. In fact, there have been many improvements added by the writing team of Piers Ashworth, Meg Leonard, and Nick Moorcroft, none of which improve anything.
I’ve watched
The Rental, his two latest and remarkably different
movies, in the space of two days. The English star is being modest. Ever since his career-making role in
Downton Abbey abruptly ended in 2012, when his character Matthew Crawley died in the Christmas special, he has deliberately kept that face of his fresh in our minds.
Along the way, he has been a murderous army veteran in
The Guest, the Beast to Emma Watson’s Belle in Disney’s
Beauty and the Beast live-action remake and a schizophrenic mutant in
X-Men-related TV show
Legion. “It’s a dream to turn from one thing and go and do something completely different,” he says. “That’s really all I ever set to achieve – variety.”
Subscribe Nomadland Frances McDormand, David Strathairn; directed by Chloé Zhao (Available in select theaters and streaming platforms)
Winner of Golden Lion at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, writer-director Chloé Zhao s Nomadland explores the true-to-life experiences of itinerant Americans over 60 years old who have chosen to embrace a life of mobility following the economic collapse of 2008.
Based on Jessica Bruder s 2017 nonfiction book, the neo-Western road drama captures the quintessentially restless American spirit through the eyes of Fern (Frances McDormand), a 61-year-old recent widow who embarks on a road trip to pursue a vagabond life after her small hometown has been dissolved.
On her journey, from the Badlands of South Dakota to the Nevada desert to the Pacific Northwest, Fern gains a new colorful life through the friendships she develops with fellow modern-day, van-traveling nomads.
The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the film industry. Movie theaters continue to operate with enhanced health and safety measures, following CDC recommended COVID-19 safety guidelines. Some films are tentatively scheduled for big-screen releases while others will be available digitally via video on demand.
âFlora & Ulyssesâ
Genre: Fantasy, adventure and family
Cast: Matilda Lawler, Alyson Hannigan, Ben Schwartz, Benjamin Evans Ainsworth, Danny Pudi, Kate Micucci, and Bobby Moynihan
Director: Lena Khan
Rated: PG
Disney s âFlora & Ulyssesâ is a comedy-adventure based on the Newbery Award-winning book about 10-year old Flora, an avid comic book fan and a self-avowed cynic, whose parents have recently separated.