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SPOTLIGHT October 2022: Tatiana S. Riegel, Film Editor

September 30, 2022October 6, 2022 Beth Accomando craig gillespie, curella, film editor, i tonya, Pam and Tommy, spotlight

Editing has been called the “invisible art” because it is meant to go unnoticed. Perhaps that’s why it is a field where women were allowed to flourish from the earliest days of Hollywood. Women have consistently made up almost a third of Hollywood’s editing pool and they have excelled at the craft. Tatiana S. Riegel is a success story. She set her sights on a career in the film industry started at the very bottom and navigated her way to the top through hard work and by choosing challenging and diverse projects.

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PAM AND TOMMY – Review by Martha K Baker

March 8, 2022March 9, 2022 Martha K. Baker craig gillespie, Lily James, Pam and Tommy, Pamela Anderson, Rand Gauthier, Sebastian Stan, seth rogan, Tommy Lee

You just know that, when the voice of a protagonist’s male member gets a credit in the cast list, the motion picture has the tell-tale tongue in the cheek. In eight episodes. Pam and Tommy flashes back and shreds threads of history through the Eighties and Nineties. shedding light on sleazy producers and paparazzi, celebrities, and craven criminals. The result is bright, loud, sad, vicious, painful and stupefying and worth considering as a slice of recent history and a slab of eternal misogyny.

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CRUELLA – Review by Martha K Baker

June 3, 2021June 6, 2021 Martha K. Baker craig gillespie, cruella, emma stone, emma thompson, Jenny Bevan, Joel Fry, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mark Strong, Paul Walter Hauser

A so-called “prequel,” Cruella quotes more than it originates. Set in the punking ’70s in London, the film traces the early days of the evil-doer known as Cruella back to the time that she was Estella. Even as a child, her white and black hair symbolized her good and evil sides.

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CRUELLA – Review by Lois Alter Mark

May 26, 2021May 30, 2021 Lois Alter Mark craig gillespie, cruella, emma stone, emma thompson, Jenny Bevan, Joel Fry, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mark Strong, Paul Walter Hauser

Cruella just may be the best movie of the year, daaaaaahling. It’s Wicked mixed with The Devil Wears Prada, and it’s so edgy and full of life (and, yes, some death), it brings Disney into the 21st century.

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CRUELLA – Review by Pam Grady

May 25, 2021May 30, 2021 Pam Grady craig gillespie, cruella, emma stone, emma thompson, Jenny Bevan, Joel Fry, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mark Strong, Paul Walter Hauser

You’ve got to hand it to the Mouse. Disney can make a princess out of anyone, even one of its legendary villains, Cruella De Ville, a kind of hard-hearted Snow White whose Evil Queen is her designer boss, the Baroness. For those of us who grew up loathing that simpering, eventually sleeping princess, this is more like it: a princess who gives as good as she gets.

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CRUELLA – Review by Susan Wloszczyna

May 25, 2021May 30, 2021 Susan Wloszczyna craig gillespie, cruella, emma stone, emma thompson, Jenny Bevan, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mark Strong

What’s black, white and wittily wicked fun all over? Disney’s Cruella, an origin story of the puppy-snatching villainess from the studio’s 101 Dalmatians franchise that was launched 50 years ago with the much-beloved original animated canine classic In that version, the pelt-wearing, skunk-haired crone with jutting cheekbones swanned about as she waved her cigarette holder while plotting to make a black and white fur coat from puppies.

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CRUELLA – Review by Susan Granger

May 25, 2021May 30, 2021 Susan Granger craig gillespie, cruella, emma stone, emma thompson, Jenny Bevan, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mark Strong

Opening nationwide in theaters and streaming, Cruella is an all-new, live-action origin story, recounting the early days of the screen’s most notorious – and infamously fashionable – dog-napping villainess, the legendary Cruella de Vil from Disney’s 1961 animated classic 101 Dalmatians.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Emma Stone Goes “Cruella”

December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments 101 dalmations, craig gillespie, cruella, disney, emma stone, the weekin women, twiw

Before she was a Golden Globe nominee for The Favourite or even an Oscar winner for La La Land, Emma Stone was reportedly set to star as a Disney villain in Cruella, a live-action origin story for 101 Dalmatians baddie Cruella De Vil. Think the Mouse House’s 2014 box-office hit Maleficent only with a fashionable fur coat instead of the horns.

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Anna Chi's The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu is a lighthearted look at intergenerational dynamics, but takes time to tackle significant issues like immigration policies and racial and sexual identity prejudices too. Read @AprilMac's review: https://awfj.org/blog/2023/03/18/the-disappearance-of-mrs-wu-review-by-april-neale/

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#ShazamFuryOfTheGods didn't set the box office on fire this weekend, but what did @nadine13am think of the #DCU superhero sequel? Read her review now: https://awfj.org/blog/2023/03/16/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-review-by-nadine-whitney/

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THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT on @netflix casts a beautiful and emotional spell, proving some things are impossible only until you believe they're not. I enjoyed the marvelous animation, script, and talented voice cast. More in my @AWFJ review. https://awfj.org/blog/2023/03/17/the-magicians-elephant-review-by-valerie-kalfrin/

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From John Wick to The Wire and beyond, Lance Reddick was an actor who elevated every production he was involved with. A fierce talent gone way too soon at just 60. #RIP

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Thank you @AWFJ and @jen4green for the wonderful review! #awfj #stillworking9to5 #9to5 https://awfj.org/blog/2023/03/16/still-working-9-to-5-review-by-jennifer-green/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1636840199727779842

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