Alicia Vikander
Movie Review: Blue Bayou
While there may be more ambition and intention than is fully realized in the end product, what is produced is a remarkable and rewarding exploration of the immigration system.
Movie Review: The Glorias
Director Julie Taymor’s often entertaining, yet occasionally whimsical, biography of the feminist icon Gloria Steinem, The Glorias, covers over eighty years of Steinem’s amazing and remarkable life. A feat that is achieved by the portrayal of the subject by no less than four distinctly original actresses at four disparate periods of Steinem’s story. Crafted from Steinem’s memoir, My Life on the Ro...[Read More]
Focus Features Snares Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’ Out of Cannes
Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to writer/director Justin Chon’s Blue Bayou, from MACRO and Entertainment One (eOne) out of Cannes’ virtual market. In addition to writing and directing the film, Chon (above), who has previously won multiple festival awards for Ms. Purple and Gook, also stars alongside Academy Award® winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Mark O̵...[Read More]