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Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway
A live recording of George Clooney’s Broadway debut, this stage play adapts Clooney’s 2005 film of the same name, centered on CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and his on-air battles with Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. It’s not a beat-for-beat re-creation though—beyond Clooney stepping into the lead role of Murrow, it extends the original movie’s examination of the role of media and journalism right up to the present day, for a powerful contrast of McCarthy’s spurious Communist witch hunts with present day politics. Darkly, depressingly resonant, but a powerful piece of theater that’s now accessible without the hefty ticket price.
Okja
Before winning Oscars and cementing his name in the Hollywood firmament with Parasite, Bong Joon-ho had something of a sideline in creature features. While 2006's The Host remains worth hunting down, this 2017 saga of genetic engineering and animal exploitation may be the director’s pinnacle of the genre. After helping raise an enhanced “super pig” in rural South Korea, young Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun) is distraught when the American company behind its creation, Mirando, comes to take it back. Falling in with a group of Animal Liberation Front activists, Mija travels to Mirando’s headquarters in New York in a desperate effort to rescue her unlikely animal friend. Darkly satirical in places, Okja manages to explore themes of animal exploitation and environmental conservation without feeling preachy—and a dual-role from the ever-magnetic Tilda Swinton doesn’t hurt.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
The third installment in writer-director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series finds master detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) investigating “a perfectly impossible crime.” This time, it’s the death of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), whose firebrand preaching has alienated much of his small parish in upstate New York. All fingers point to junior priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O'Connor), a “young, dumb, and full of Christ” former boxer with a dark past. Of course, with Johnson’s skilled pen, nothing is clear-cut, especially when Wicks’ own flock—a murderer’s row of acting royalty, including Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington, Glenn Close, and Thomas Haden Church—all seem to have their own motives. Although it takes a somewhat darker, more ponderous tone than its predecessors, Wake Up Dead Man still packs in a wry sense of humor and makes for a fantastic third outing for what might end up being Craig’s definitive onscreen role. (Shake that, James Bond.)
Klaus
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