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Friday, October 28, 2022 at 10:06AM by Nathaniel R
It's Friday which means "new movies!". We'll discuss the streaming titles in a bit but first here's what's new in movie theaters today, Friday, October 28th, to help you plan your weekend...
Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 11:14AM By Glenn Dunks
If you were paying close enough attention to the ways the American political winds were blowing, you likely could have foreseen how relevant The Janes would ecome. Well, even more so than it already was. Still, even as recently as its Sundance premiere in January, it’s unlikely that filmmakers Tia Lessin (her first since 2013’s Citizen Koch) and Emma Pildes could have envisioned its release a mere few months late would coincide so frighteningly with the systematic dissolving of the rights their subjects were fighting for. Right in front of everybody’s eyes.
That The Janes is a film for this very moment isn’t what makes it so good. Although it helps...
Call Jane, Doc Corner, The Janes, documentaries Monday, January 24, 2022 at 6:00PM By Ben Miller
Handsomely filmed and admirably performed, Oscar-nominated Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy makes her feature film directorial debut with Call Jane. Elizabeth Banks stars as Joy, a traditional suburban Chicago housewife in the 1960s. Joy has a loving but busy lawyer husband Will (Chris Messina) and a 14-year-old daughter Charlotte (Grace Edwards). Joy is newly pregnant, and keeps having dizzy spells and passes out in her kitchen. Her doctor diagnoses a congenital heart blockage that threatens her life, unless the pregnancy is terminated - the only treatment...
