Posted on March 6, 2016 at 3:54 pm
Tina Fey’s new film, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, is “inspired by” not “based on” the true story of journalist Kim Barker, which is why the character’s name is one letter removed from her real-life inspiration: she is called Kim Baker. The real Kim Barker was a print journalist, not a television correspondent. She wrote for the …
Posted on March 6, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan has died at age 94. She met Ronald Reagan when she was an actress named Nancy Davis and she had been confused with a similarly-named actress by investigators looking for Communist sympathizers in Hollywood. They appeared together in one film, Hellcats of the Navy. In “The Doctor and the Girl” …
Posted on March 6, 2016 at 8:00 am
Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander star in the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia who raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Posted on March 5, 2016 at 3:13 pm
YouTube Spaces has launched a new program for women filmmakers. 51 channels from 6 cities around the world with a combined subscriber reach of over 43 million subscribers produced content as part of a special YouTube initiative to spotlight and empower female creators in 2016. The goal is to support the creation of female-driven content …
Posted on March 5, 2016 at 1:07 pm
“A story untold could be the one that kills you.” The man who said that was the great Southern writer Pat Conroy, who told his own story of pain and abuse and loss through the characters in his books. Today we mourn his loss. Conroy wrote with great compassion about dysfunctional families and with evocative …
