This week’s edition of “For Your Consideration” features Ryan Murphy’s latest Emmy nomination powerhouse, Feud. Season one, subtitled Bette and Joan, follows the infamous drama surrounding the production of the 1962 film, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The film starred Hollywood…
Feud: Bette and Joan Season Finale Review: “You Mean All This Time We Could Have Been Friends?”
There’s no happy ending to be mined from the lives of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Their final days, like their embittered rivalry, was filled with anguish and dismay, and the only difference between the days of What Ever Happened to…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “Mommie Dearest”
A woman’s touch is a welcomed one for Feud: Bette and Joan. Ryan Murphy’s newest FX anthology series finds Murphy himself evacuating the director’s chair in favor of Gwyneth Horder-Payton, a TV director with a long established history with the…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “The Other Woman”
Ryan Murphy’s productions tend to be a little, well, melodramatic. That’s fair to say. They don’t merely dip their toes into dramatics; they practically relish in extremism. And when you deal with the eternal overblown anguish shared between two of…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “Pilot”
Often charitably, my friends tell me that I hold an encyclopedic knowledge on film. But I have to make a confession: I know very little about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’ “legendary” behind-the-scenes rivalry during What Ever Happened to Baby…
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s TAMMY!
When it comes to independence day weekend we’re use to seeing huge blockbuster movies with tons of action, explosions, and aliens but this weekend we have ‘Tammy’. A comedy about a woman (Melissa McCarthy) who is pushed to her limits…
This Month in Film: September New Releases
September is finally here! The time for awards season movies has just begun, and I’m pretty excited for this Fall’s new releases. This month begins with a slow start and eventually gains momentum with some interesting releases. See what movies…