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NEXT GOAL WINS – Review by Nadine Whitney

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 Nadine Whitney American Samoan soccer team, elisabeth moss, Kaimana, michael fassbender, new zealand films, Taika Waititi

The best one can say about Next Goal Wins is it’s cute. The worst would require a complete breakdown of where Taika Waititi is stumbling as an artist. Too many jokes far too often that many of them just fail to land. There is some great writing, some wonderful performances, but Next Goal Wins is a cluttered mess which could have benefitted from slowing its madcap pace. It certainly isn’t the worst thing either Waititi or Michael Fassbender have done, but it is also far from the best. Waititi has scored his own goal by being remarkably repetitive. Next Goal Wins is not a winner.

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THE HANDMAID’S TALE Season 4 – Review by Susan Granger

October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 Susan Granger ann dowd, Bruce Miller, elisabeth moss, hulu, margaret atwood, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley, The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 4

With so many new dramatic series, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 4 somehow got put on a back-burner, begging to be binge-watched. Lacking its previous topical urgency but retaining its feminist rage, the fourth season begins where the relentless third left off, as heroically tormented June Osbourne (Elisabeth Moss) dispatches a plane filled with 86 children and numerous women fleeing from the tyranny of Gilead into Toronto, Canada.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Moss to Make Adaptation of Katie Hill’s SHE WILL RISE – Brandy McDonnell reports

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments blumhouse, elisabeth moss, katie hill, she will rise, She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality, twiw, week in women

Two-time Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss will star in and produce a film adaptation of former Congresswoman Katie Hill’s memoir She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality. The Emmy Award winner is teaming with writer Michael Seitzman (North Country) and producer Jason Blum for the streaming film.

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SHIRLEY – Review by Sherin Nichole

June 3, 2020June 4, 2020 Sherin Nicole 0 Comments biopics, elisabeth moss, josephine decker, logan lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, shirley, shirley jackson

Director Josephine Decker’s take on literary giant Shirley Jackson’s later years is more creative non-fiction than biopic. It’s a character study used to dissect the decay of male dominance on female creativity.

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SHIRLEY – Review by Susan Granger

June 3, 2020June 7, 2020 Susan Granger 0 Comments elisabeth moss, josephine decker, shirley, shirley jackson. biopics

Now that the Academy is considering ‘streaming’ films, Elisabeth Moss could be an Oscar contender for her ferocious performance as mercurial writer Shirley Jackson, perhaps best known for her allegorical short story The Lottery in the New Yorker in 1948.

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THE INVISIBLE MAN – Review by Brandy McDonnell

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments Blumhouse Productions, elisabeth moss, Leigh Whannell, The Invisible Man

Whannell gets decent mileage out of predictable scare tactics like doors that mysteriously drift open, breathy vapor that appears out of nowhere and rain outlining a shadowy figure. Although he lets the run time get a little long, Moss’ propulsive performance keeps driving the narrative relentlessly forward.

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THE INVISIBLE MAN – Review by Susan Granger

February 25, 2020March 1, 2020 Susan Granger 0 Comments elisabeth moss, invisible man, leigh wannell, remakes

The smartest move made by writer/director Leigh Whannell was hiring Elisabeth Moss to play the protagonist in his contemporary re-imaging of H.G. Wells’ 1897 horror classic. The Emmy-winning resourceful actress has come to embody female suffering.

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THE KITCHEN – Review by Lana Wilson-Combs

August 6, 2019August 9, 2019 Lana Wilson-Combs 0 Comments andrea berloff, elisabeth moss, Melissa McCarthy, the kitchen, Tiffany Haddish

The Kitchen, from director Andrea Berloff, is a crime thriller based on the DC Entertainment/Vertigo comic book miniseries of the same name. The movie stars Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss as the wives of Irish mobsters. The women decide to get tough and take over organized crime operations in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood when their husbands are sent to prison.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Campion to direct Moss in POWER OF THE DOG – Brandy McDonnell reports

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments Benedict Cumberbatch, elisabeth moss, jane campion, power of the dog, the week in women, twiw

Oscar winner Jane Campion and two-time Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss will reunite in the new film, The Power of the Dog. Moss and Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch will star in the film, an adaptation of the Thomas Savage novel. Campion will direct from a script she adapted, with See-Saw Films’ in-house sales arm, Cross City Films, The movie will go into pre-production at the end of the year.