Hey, Everyone, Nicole Kidman Is Actually A Great Actress

June 09, 2020 in Collections

Turns out, she is actually a great actress. I know, it seems unfair that someone so perfectly beautiful is also that talented. It’s like Halle Berry. How come she gets to be such a good actress? She’s already way ahead anyway. Sheesh. I guess it’s a sort of reverse discrimination against beautiful people. I mean, Channing Tatum shouldn’t be a good actor, but he is. Nor should Cary Grant. There’s another one. Kidman has put up an impressive body of work over the past thirty years and here are some of her more notable performances.

After “Marriage Story”: Time for You to Watch More Noah Baumbach

January 21, 2020 in Collections

Where Baumbach is preferable—for me, at least—is that his movies are about families. Granted, these are families in crisis, but they at least feel like people you might know, not because of how they live, but because of how they talk. When things are going badly, we all aspire to rise above the moment and be a better version of ourselves. Alas, that usually doesn’t happen. We end up saying things we regret and doing things we later find embarrassing. We end up being disappointed in ourselves and how we handled those moments. That’s the part that Baumbach nails perfectly.