Betty Gilpin – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

AMERICAN PRIMEVAL – Review by Susan Granger

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 Susan Granger American Primeval, Betty Gilpin, Lucas Neff, mormons, Mountain Meadows Massacre, netflix, Peter Berg, Preston Mota, series, Shea Whigham, Taylor Kitsch

Set in the Utah Territory circa 1857, Netflix’s American Primeval rectifies any mistaken impression that the pioneers settling in the Old American West – a.k.a. Manifest Destiny – had embarked on a romantic adventure. Scripted by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) and directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights), this ‘authentic’ limited series is largely fiction but draws on many verified violent Utah ‘origin’ stories, joining other ‘realistic’ historical releases like The English, Meek’s Cutoff, The Power of the Dog and Killers of the Flower Moon.

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THE HUNT – Review by Susan Granger

March 11, 2020April 8, 2022 Susan Granger 0 Comments Betty Gilpin, charlotte bruus christensen, craig zobel, emma roberts, hilary swank, the hunt

Taking its cue from Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game, it depicts wealthy, heavily armed elites exercising their Second Amendment right against a dozen drugged/kidnapped/gagged victims, stalking them as sport on a private game reserve in Croatia.

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A DOG’S JOURNEY – Review by Susan Granger

May 25, 2019 Susan Granger 0 Comments a dog's journey, Betty Gilpin, Dennis Quaid, gail mancuso, Kathryn Prescott, Marg Helenberger

Beginning where Lasse Halstrom’s A Dog’s Purpose (2017) left off, this syrupy sequel follows a Buddhist philosophy, imagining that a dying dog’s life-force reawakens in the body of another canine.