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Sunday
Mar072021

FYC: Julia Garner in "The Assistant"

by Ben Miller

This year’s Best Actress race is filled with powerful women going through big things.  Viola Davis and Andra Day portray groundbreaking artists dealing with systems stacked against them.  Frances McDormand and Vanessa Kirby are women trying to work through immense grief.  Carey Mulligan is exacting revenge for monumental wrongs.

In The Assistant, Julia Garner portrays Jane, an assistant to a Hollywood big wig.  Jane is not going through something big.  She is just doing her job.  Something big is happening nearby, she recognizes, but she can’t do anything about it...

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Sunday
Jan312021

Showbiz History: Derek Jarman, The Misfits, and Jennifer Lawrence's breakout

7 random things that happened on this day, January 31st, in showbiz history

1941 Alfred Hitchcock's comedy Mr & Mrs Smith, no not the Brangelina one, opened in theaters starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. Yes, Hitchcock once made a screwball comedy without thriller elements. 

1961 The Misfits, the elegaic last film for both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable and one of Montgomery Clift's last pictures, has its world premiere in Reno, Nevada. It will open in movie theaters the next day...

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Sunday
Feb022020

Weekend Box Office

It was a quiet weekend at the box office with both new wide releases (horror film Gretel and Hansel and revenge thriller The Rhythm Section) opening softly, apart from a few noteworthy monetary marks for indie films...

Weekend Box Office
January 31st through February 2nd (ESTIMATES)
🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended
WIDE RELEASE (800+ screens)
PLATFORM TITLES
"Gretel and Hansel" Oscar Nominated Short Film "Hair Love"
1 BAD BOYS FOR LIFE  $17.6 (cum. $148)
1 🔺 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS $1.0 on 460  screens *NEW* THE CHARTS 
1917  $9.6 (cum. $119.2) THE ACTING,  CONTINUOUS SHOT ★ 2 THE LAST FULL MEASURE $519k on 617 screens (cum. $2.0)
3 DOLITTLE $7.7 (cum. $55.2) THIS ODD FRANCHISE 3 WEATHERING WITH YOU $405k on 224 screens (cum. $7.2) REVIEW  ★ 

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Friday
Jan312020

"The Assistant" is complicit and so are we

Here's Ren Jender on a Sundance movie that moved straight into theaters this weekend...

Writer-director Kitty Green's The Assistant (now open in NYC and LA) is a Jeanne Dielman-like examination of a woman who is the newest assistant in Harvey Weinstein's office (though he's never named) in the time before the revelations of his rape and harassment of women came to light. The film delves into how serial sexual harassment makes the entire office (and of course the industry) complicit, even when individuals try to do the right thing. 

The title character Jane (Julia Garner) is not clueless and she doesn't lack a conscience...

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