The Mule (2018)
Starring Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Weist, Taissa Farmiga, Ignacio Serricchio, and Andy Garcia
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Written by Nick Schenk
The RyMickey Rating: C-
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
Adrift
Adrift (2018)
Starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur
Written by Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell, and David Branson Smith
The RyMickey Rating: B
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Gemini Man
Gemini Man (2019)
Starring Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong, Ralph Brown, and Linda Emond
Directed by Ang Lee
Written by David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke
The RyMickey Rating: C+
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Secret Obsession
Secret Obsession (2019)
Starring Brenda Song, Mike Vogel, Ashley Scott, and Dennis Haysbert
Directed by Peter Sullivan
Written by Kraig Wenman and Peter Sullivan
The RyMickey Rating: D
Monday, October 21, 2019
The Laundromat
The Laundromat (2019)
Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, David Schwimmer, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeffrey Wright, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Nonso Anozie, Will Forte, Chris Parnell, James Cromwell, Melissa Rauch, Larry Wilmore, Robert Patrick, Rosalind Chao, and Sharon Stone
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Scott Z. Burns
The RyMickey Rating: C-
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The Seagull
The Seagull (2018)
Starring Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll, Elisabeth Moss, Mare Winningham, Jon Tenney, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Zegen, Billy Howle, and Brian Dennehy
Directed by Michael Mayer
Written by Stephen Karam
The RyMickey Rating: B
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Ma
Ma (2019)
Starrring Octavia Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Diana Silvers, Corey Fogelmanis, McKaley Miller, Gianni Paolo, Dante Brown, and Luke Evans
Directed by Tate Taylor
Written by Scotty Landes
The RyMickey Rating: D
Friday, October 11, 2019
Theater Review - August: Osage County
August: Osage County
Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Jackson Gay
Where: Thompson Theatre at the Roselle Center for the Arts
(University of Delaware, Newark, DE)
When: Sunday, September 29
Photo by Evan Krape
The University of Delaware's Resident Ensemble Players opens up their 2019-20 season with a fantastic production of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County. I saw this play back in 2010 at the somewhat large Forrest Theater in Philadelphia as part of its national touring company and my review shows that I was actually pretty disenchanted with the piece, finding it over-the-top and not worthy of the numerous awards that were heaped upon it.
Perhaps being removed from the hype mellowed me or maybe it was the more intimate theater at the REP or maybe it was simply that the REP ensemble does a fantastic job interpreting the piece -- whatever the difference (or the combination of all of them), this version of August: Osage County gave me a better appreciation for the darkly comic, warped, yet realistic family soap opera at its (lengthy three hour-and-twenty-minute) center. The REP's Kathleen Pirkl Tague's acerbic matriarch Violet Weston is certainly the centerpiece of the story, but kudos must also be given to the REP's Elizabeth Heflin as Violet's daughter Barbara for being a nice levelheaded counterpoint. It's great to see these two veteran REP members play off of each other with Letts' witty banter. Guest actors Izabel Mar, Karen Alvarado, Bridget Flanery, and particularly the absolutely hilarious Angela Iannone (who conjures up a perfect mix of Cloris Leachman and Vicki Lawrence's Mama from Mama's Family) add much depth to the piece. Notice that I've only mentioned women -- this is a strongly female-driven piece and although I certainly have nothing negative to say about the men in the ensemble, they're left in the dust here by the very nature of Letts' work.
Excellent work, as always, on the design front from the REP with a particular shout-out to scenic designer Brittany Vasta's three-story set which towers over the Weston family much like their family secrets always hover over them weighing them down. Overall, a great start to the REP season and congratulations on giving this reviewer a different perspective on a play he thought he didn't like.
Excellent work, as always, on the design front from the REP with a particular shout-out to scenic designer Brittany Vasta's three-story set which towers over the Weston family much like their family secrets always hover over them weighing them down. Overall, a great start to the REP season and congratulations on giving this reviewer a different perspective on a play he thought he didn't like.
Tuesday, October 01, 2019
Operation Finale
Operation Finale (2018)
Starring Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Lior Raz, Mélanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, Joe Alwyn, and Haley Lu Richardson
Directed by Chris Weitz
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