EJ Moreno with a review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings… Marvel Studios has cooked up their best solo film in quite some time with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The action in this film is unlike anything that the MCU has seen before, and it’s led by one […]
Melissa McCarthy faces grief and a territorial bird in The Starling trailer
Melissa McCarthy is always looking for her next big hit, and Netflix is giving the star her next attempt in this touching new film. McCarthy stars in The Starling, the new film from the Hidden Figures filmmaker Theodore Melfi, which follows “a woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that’s […]
Movie Review – Together Together (2021)
Together Together, 2021. Written and Directed by Nikole Beckwith. Starring Ed Helms, Patti Harrison, Rosalind Chao, Anna Konkle, Evan Jonigkeit, Tig Notaro, Nora Dunn, Fred Melamed, Timm Sharp, Bianca Lopez, Julio Torres, Travis Coles, Jo Firestone, and Sufe Bradshaw. SYNOPSIS: When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, […]
Disney+ Review – Mulan (2020)
Mulan, 2020. Directed by Niki Caro. Starring Liu Yifei, Yoson An, Tzi Ma, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Jason Scot Lee, Gong Li, Rosalind Chao and Xana Tang. SYNOPSIS: A young woman pretends to be a man in order to take her ageing father’s place as a conscript in the Chinese Imperial Army. The recent wave […]
Movie Review – Mulan (2020)
Mulan, 2020. Directed by Niki Caro. Starring Yifei Liu, Yoson An, Gong Li, Donnie Yen, Jason Scott Lee, Ron Yuan, Jet Li, Tzi Ma, Jimmy Wong, Doua Moua, Chen Tang, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Chum Ehelepola, Rosalind Chao, Susana Tang, Nelson Lee, Cheng Pei-Pei, Radhesh Aria, Hoon Lee, and Crystal Rao. SYNOPSIS: A young Chinese maiden disguises […]
Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings adds Star Trek actress Rosalind Chao
Just days after it was reported that Michelle Yeoh is in talks for the film, The Illuminerdi is reporting that Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine actress Rosalind Chao has signed on for a role in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Chao – who portrayed the character of […]
Movie Review – The Laundromat (2019)
The Laundromat, 2019. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, David Schwimmer, Will Forte, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeffrey Wright, Alex Pettyfer, Chris Parnell, James Cromwell, Robert Patrick, Melissa Rauch, Dan Gruenberg, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Juliet Donenfeld, Shoshana Bush, Rosalind Chao, Nonso Anozie, Amy Louise Pemberton, Jay Paulson, Cristela Alonzo, Larry Clarke, Larry Wilmore, […]
Movie Review – The Laundromat (2019)
The Laundromat, 2019. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Nonso Anozie, Matthias Schoenaerts, Melissa Rauch, Sharon Stone, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Rosalind Chao. SYNOPSIS: When a woman suffers an insurance injustice, she begins to investigate the shady law firm Mossack Fonseca, who would eventually become the subject of the […]
Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat gets a first trailer and poster
Netflix has released the first poster and trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming drama The Laundromat. Based on the Panama Papers scandal and Jake Bernstein’s book Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite, the film features a cast that includes Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, […]
Toronto After Dark Film Festival Review – Tragedy Girls (2017)
Tragedy Girls, 2017. Directed by Tyler MacIntyre. Starring Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Jack Quaid, Kevin Durand, Josh Hutcherson, Rosalind Chao, Timothy V. Murphy, and Craig Robinson. SYNOPSIS: Tragedy Girls, a twist on the slasher genre following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into […]
