Female Film Critics 24/375
The relationship between two broken souls is what Memory investigates, and it’s not always easy to understand — or watch. There are devastating scenes about earlier childhood trauma and the unflinching camera means you may find yourself holding your breath during certain scenes. What distinguishes Memory are the performances from Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, both of whom are emotionally naked throughout and riveting here.
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Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain will star in and executive produce the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series The Savant. The new eight-episode limited series will star the Oscar, SAG, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award winner in the lead role. Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye,.The Good Nurse, George & Tammy, Broadway’s A Doll’s House) will executive produce through her Freckle Films Production Company.
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It made no sense to have Netflix release The Good Nurse in late October, followed by a far-more detailed account of the same serial killer in its own Capturing the Killer Nurse in early November. Based on Charles Graeber’s book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Madness, Medicine, and Murder, both follow the investigation that led to serial killer Charles Cullen’s arrest in 2003.
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Efficient yet gentle, a hospital nurse hooks up an IV bag of medication for an older woman, something to soothe the allergic reaction she’s having. The woman’s spouse nuzzles his head close to hers as her eyes close, resting. So much trust—about the nurse, their skills, and what’s in that bag. That’s ultimately what makes the Netflix crime drama The Good Nurse so unsettling.
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The Good Nurse dramatizes suspenseful, terrifying medical villainy. Films and television series highlight criminal activity in its many incarnations. Of course, nefarious deeds deliver conflict, tension, and suspense as perpetrators are pursued. But there’s an exceptionally unnerving impact with blatant disregard of life when it revolves around intentional medical malice. At least, that’s how I felt throughout the unsettling, masterfully presented The Good Nurse.
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Almost unrecognizable in spidery mascara, prosthetic cheeks and garish wigs, Jessica Chastain is irresistible as camp icon Tammy Faye Bakker who – with her husband, preacher Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) – built a Christian empire, Including Heritage USA, a Jesus-themed amusement park.
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Even at the height of their influence, Jim and Tammy Bakker were difficult to take seriously. The notorious TV evangelists got famous selling that specific American Christianity that is equal parts mammon, myth and messianic misdirection. The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a new film based on an eponymous documentary, attempts to capture this particular moment and these people. Directed by Michael Showalter and starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield, it is short on script and long on latex.
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Jessica Chastain will play a troubled artist in the comedy-drama “Losing Clementine,” helmed by Argentine filmmaker Lucía Puenzo . Sentient Entertainment’s Renee Tab picked up the feature rights to Ashley Ream’s acclaimed debut novel of the same name and brought “Better Call Saul” writer and producer Ann Cherkis onboard to adapt the screenplay.
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Universal Pictures will unleash the femme-centric espionage film “355” into theaters Jan. 15, 2021. “355” is a passion project for Jessica Chastain, who has been one of the most vocal movie stars on the issue of gender equality in Hollywood.
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Better suited for a TV mini-series, this overly long, episodic sequel, nevertheless, delivers on the gross, supernatural terror. Picking up 27 years after his last appearance in Derry, Maine, the creepy, shape-shifting clown called Pennywise is back.
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