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With the tragic opioid epidemic, the topic of rehabilitation and a family’s dealing with a struggling member certainly merits cinematic attention. But dramatizing the issue with sensitivity, insight, and honesty presents unique challenges. All the more credit, then, to writer/director Peter Hedges for what he achieves in Ben Is Back, starring his Oscar-nominated, real-life son Lucas as recovering addict Ben.
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Julia Roberts says she hopes her latest film will help start conversations about the continuing epidemic of opioid addiction. The Oscar-winning actress plays a mother of a drug-addicted son in Ben Is Back opposite Lucas Hedges, who was nominated for a supporting actor Oscar in 2017.
Read moreIt’s not surprising that Julia Roberts rose to the bait of this remake of Juan Jose Campanella’s 2009 Buenos Aires-based
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RIP Maureen O’Hara. Sandra Bullock seconds Hollywood’s spanking for sexism and ageism. Suffragette director Sarah Gavron talks role models. Kate Winslett to star in Lee Miller biopic. Sylvia Robinson, known as the “Mother of Hip-Hop,” will be the subject of a biopic. And Daniel Craig bonds with Monica Bellucci, his equal in age. Read more in THE WEEK IN WOMEN.
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Read moreNow I have to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir – because this tepid travelogue of a self-involved yuppie writer can’t
Read more“Eat Pray Love” presents Liz’s road to enlightenment in ways that are too reverent, too episodic, and too self-absorbed. Read
Read moreYears ago the word Hollywood conjured up images of glamour, legend and famous actresses and actors. Movie fans clamored for
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