Don’t you just hate it when you pop your clogs in the middle of your Derasha? We’ve all been there. Disobedience begins with a death of a Rabbi in the midst of said circumstances, but his daughter Ronit (portrayed by Rachel Weisz) is the locus. All jokes aside, director Sebastián Lelio captures her grief without […]
Rachel McAdams
Review: Spotlight
S potlight is not, in any sense, an uplifting film-and probably not one ideal for Saturday night viewing, as I discovered. Then again, its subject matter is sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, so what did I expect? It is 2001, and the Boston Globe newspaper has a new editor, Marty Baron (Live Schreiber.) Fresh […]
Cut and paste: The women of True Detective
The first season of True Detective was arguably the finest moment of television in 2014. Its nods to surrealism, Lynch and Twin Peaks easily made it a unique addition to the tired ‘detective’ show. Moreover, its A-list acting talent further solidified the role of television as a medium potentially equal to feature films. However, despite […]