A Promising Young Woman Emerald Fennell (2020 Facts for You: Where to Watch:Rentable on Amazon Prime Length:1 hour 54 minutes Names You Might Know: Carey Mulligan with supporting roles played by Connie Britton, Laverne Cox, Jennifer Coolidge and Alison Brie Language: English She Said: This black comedy suspense film from emerging creative powerhouse Emerald Fennell (Call… Continue reading A Promising Young Woman
Ada Limón’s “Love Poem With Apologies for My Appearance”
Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong James McBride (2020) James McBride is the acclaimed author of the National Book Award winning novel The Good Lord Bird (2013). He also wrote the popular memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man’sTribute to His White Mother (1995), which spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list; wrote the historical World War… Continue reading Deacon King Kong
The Dig
The Dig Simon Stone (2020) Facts for You: Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix Length: 1 hour 52 minutes Names You Might Know: Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Lily James He Said:If you’re a big fan of Beowulf (and let’s face it, who isn’t?) then you’re well aware of the dark, elegiac tone that hangs over that poem, and the… Continue reading The Dig
Seamus Heaney’s “Mother of the Groom”
Archibald MacLeish’s “Ars Poëtica”
Hamnet
Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell (2020) There is at the center of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the death of William Shakespeare’s 11-year-old son Hamnet a chapter that backs away from the story we are in the midst of and examines it from a transcendent perspective. It is unlikely that O’Farrell could have conceived at the time of… Continue reading Hamnet
News of the World
News of the World Paul Greengrass (2020) Facts for You: Where to Watch: Streaming on Amazon Prime Length: 1 hour 58 minutes Names You Might Know: Tom Hanks She Said: Well, it’s happened: We’ve been home for the Pandemic long enough to get TWO Tom Hanks movies on streaming; the first was Greyhound, last year when streaming major studio… Continue reading News of the World
