Tagged Annette Bening

This film was previously reviewed in October 2019 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. With Marriage Story prominent on the festival circuit, LFF's other divorce drama, Hope Gap, threatens to be...

One of the most tiresome habits of modern film marketing and discourse is the obsession with timeliness. Every "serious" release has to be related to Trump or Brexit or MeToo, even if the connection is...

In 1981, following a good few years in the showbiz wilderness, Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame (inhabited here by an electric Annette Bening) finds herself backstage prepping for a stage production, far...

Fourteen-time Oscar nominee Warren Beatty's newest picture comes with certain expectations and, despite the wry casting of legendary Hollywood Lothario Beatty as eccentric aviator-producer billionaire (and...

Great films help us deal with life by telling stories we can relate to. Just like us, the characters are flawed and often struggle to deal with their situations. But as the movie progresses, they come to...

The opening of Danny Collins claims that it's "kind of based on a true story a little bit". It's kind of a good movie a little bit too. The slew of classic Lennon songs is a nice touch, but as late-in-life...

Mars Attacks! is a misunderstood 1996 science fiction film that was overshadowed by the release of the similarly structured but far more successful Independence Day in the same year (Mars Attacks! only made...

Celebrated Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has recorded twenty two albums in a career spanning more than forty years and ranging across the genres of folk, jazz, and pop. She’s even been named...