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AND JUST LIKE THAT… – Review by Susan Granger

August 26, 2025August 26, 2025 Susan Granger And Just Like That, Chris Noth, cynthia nixon, John Corbett, Kristin Davis, Michael Patrick King, sarah jessica parker

Revolving around iconic fictional fashionista Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City began on HBO in 1998 and continued for six successful seasons. In 2021 And Just Like That… caught up with Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) coping with the trials and tribulations of life and love as middle-aged Manhattanites. The absence of sassy, adventurous sexpot Samantha (Kim Cattrall) left a gaping hole. When the quartet became a trio, it lost a pivotal part.

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AND JUST LIKE THAT… – Review by Susan Granger

March 6, 2024March 9, 2024 Susan Granger And Just Like That, cynthia nixon, Kristin Davis, sarah jessica parker, sex and the city

After two big-screen spin-offs, the Sex and the City cast – minus Samantha – reassembled for the sequel And Just Like That… in which the quest – finding/marrying the right man – was abandoned in favor of each of the admittedly middle-aged women finding/defining herself. In the first episode of the new series, Carrie becomes a widow, selling her once-coveted Upper East Side brownstone. Her husband, known as Mr. Big (Chris Noth), collapsed from a heart attack while working out on his Peloton. At the urging of her publisher, Carrie then becomes the keynote speaker at WidowCon.

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THE GILDED AGE Season 2 – Review by Susan Granger

February 2, 2024February 5, 2024 Susan Granger Carrie Coon, christine baranski, cynthia nixon, Donna Murphy, hbo max, julian fellowes, Nathan Lane, series, The Gilded Age season 2

The second season of Julian Fellowes’ genteel, rococo soap-opera known as The Gilded Age finds ambitious 19th century NYC aristocrats dressed in bustles and top hats. Ambition meets its match as traditional customs collide with innovative schemes, proving that when the old rules don’t bend, something has to break, And since much of the filming took place in and around New York and Rhode Island, more than 60 of Broadway’s brightest musical stars comprise the cast, giving it a frivolous upstairs/downstairs aura – like ‘Downton Abbey Lite.’

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THE GILDED AGE – Review by Susan Granger

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 Susan Granger Blake Ritson, Carrie Coons, christine baranski, cynthia nixon, julian fellowes, Louisa Jacobson, taissa farmiga, The Gilded Age

If you enjoyed Julian Fellowes’ Downton Abbey, stream his latest mini-series, The Gilded Age, a period drama set in the Fifth Avenue mansions of New York City, where old money is suddenly confronted by new, threatening the aristocratic social hierarchy.

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AND JUST LIKE THAT: SEASON 1 – Review by Susan Granger

December 15, 2021December 19, 2021 Susan Granger And Just Like That, Chris Noth, cynthia nixon, hbo, Kristin Davis, Peloton, Sara Ramirez, sarah jessica parker, sex and the city

Six sassy seasons and two movies later, Sex and the City is back, streaming on HBO Max in its new incarnation: And Just Like That. Yes, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York-Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis) have remained close friends.

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RATCHED – Review by Diane Carson

October 6, 2020October 11, 2020 Diane Carson 0 Comments Amanda Plummer, Corey Stoll, cynthia nixon, evan romansky, Judy Greer, netflix, ratched, Sarah Paulson, series, Sharon Stone

Every frame of Ratched communicates the off-kilter nightmare realm. The art direction, including lighting, gives an expressionistic twist to its bizarre, hermetically sealed setting. The cinematography intensifies the garish greens, antiseptic whites, shimmering blues, and rainbow of psychedelic colors, complemented by red lipstick, so bright it all but jumps off the women’s lips that look more like wounds.

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A QUIET PASSION — Review by Martha K. Baker

May 12, 2017May 6, 2017 Martha K. Baker (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments A Quiet Passion, biopic, cynthia nixon, emily dickenson

Anyone who knows anything about Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) knows she led a circumspect life. Her passions were banked, her circle

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Top Female Performances @ New York Film Festival 2016 — Liz Whittemore reports

October 20, 2016August 8, 2019 Liz Whittemore 0 Comments 2016, 20th Centure Women, A Quiet Passion, Adèle Haenel, Adriana Ugarte, Alison Maclean, annette bening, Ava DuVernay, Certain Women, cynthia nixon, elle fanning, Emma Suárez, greta gerwig, Jennifer Ehle, Julieta, Kelly Reichardt, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Manchester By The Sea, Maren Ade, mia hansen love, Michelle Willaims, New York Film Festival, nyff54, Personal Shopper, Sandra Hüller, The Unknown Girl, Toni Erdmann, Top Female Performances

The New York Film Festival is the perfect venue for women to really show the world what they’re artistically capable of. This year was no exception. With performances from Annette Bening, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Cynthia Nixon to name a few, here is a list of what I believe are some of the best of the best of women at NYFF54.

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THE 33, MIA MADRE, SHELTER, JAMES WHITE and Other Nov 13 Openers – Reviews by Jennifer Merin

November 16, 2015September 23, 2019 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments angelina jolie pitt, by the sea, cynthia nixon, Ingrid Bergman, james white, jennifer connolly, jessie nelson, love the coopers, margherita Buy, mia madre, nanni moretti, patricia riggen, steve mcqueen, the 33

Patricia Riggen’s The 33 is compelling and inspiring truth-based drama about 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed mine. Nanni