‘Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known’: The Reunion Show of the Broadway Hit Musical
Photo: ‘Spring Awakening’ ‘Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known,’ is a documentary that displays the first-hand experiences of the original cast and crew that was involved with the making of this Broadway musical sensation. In this documentary film the entire...
‘True Mothers’: A Sad, If Slow-Paced, Examination of Japanese Life
Photo: ‘True Mothers’ A Tragedy in the Making We have two mothers, except one has the other’s child. If ‘True Mothers’ was an American film, conceived with American values in mind, the conflict would probably play out a fair bit differently. Infertility...
Hulu’s ‘Candy’ Premiere: Jessica Biel Stars in A Story That Is Not Too Sweet
Photo: ‘Candy’ Hulu’s new TV mini series, ‘Candy’, is a retelling of the 1980 Candy Montgomery murder case in which Montgomery kills her friend, Betty Gore. Jessica Biel plays the housewife turned ax murderer and Betty is played by Melanie Lynskey in the Hulu series....
‘The Staircase’: Colin Firth and Toni Collette Star in HBO Max Crime Drama That is Off to a Pretty Good Start
Photo: ‘The Staircase’ Note: Only the first three episodes of ‘The Staircase’ are out as of this writing, and thus, this review will be based solely on them. Background and Introduction On December 9, 2001, novelist Michael Iver Peterson found his wife Kathleen at the...
