“Who Are You?” is supposed to invoke questions about the work done by Quantico’s black ops team, and what that work does to each individual. Instead, the title of this series finale evoked this question for me: “Who are you,…
Iron Woman: The Real-Life Heroine Of ‘Adrift’
This article includes spoilers for the movie Adrift. Tami Oldham Ashcraft’s story of her boat being tossed about by a vicious Pacific hurricane sounds as frightening as it looks in the new movie Adrift. “We were coming up and over…
A Childhood Dream Come True With ‘A Wrinkle In Time’
Catherine Hand says that after her first childhood reading of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time, she wrote a letter to Walt Disney asking him to make the book into a movie. She never sent that letter. Decades later, she…
A Talk With The Young Stars Of ‘A Wrinkle In Time’
This week, Disney releases A Wrinkle In Time – just in time for summer vacations. Storm Reid stars as Meg Murry, and Deric McCabe stars as Meg’s brother Charles Wallace. Together with Meg’s classmate Calvin O’Keefe (Levi Miller), the Murry…
Movie Review: ‘Adrift’ Brings Us The Summer’s Most Badass Female Protagonist
Adrift brings us the most badass female protagonist of this summer movie season. She’s not a warrior. She doesn’t wear a super suit. She doesn’t have mutant powers. She simply survives. Her antagonist is not an alien, not an evil…
A Different Kind Of Survival Story: Talking With The Director Of ‘Adrift’
Perhaps growing up in Iceland gave director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) his affinity for survival stories. “I come from a country that basically it’s a survival experience to go to school in the morning!” he laughed while talking with reporters about his…
‘Adrift’ Stars Woodley And Claflin Talk About Getting Their Sea Legs
Sailing across the Pacific Ocean sounds like a dream vacation. In the new movie Adrift, opening June 1, it quickly becomes a nightmare for a young couple when their boat is swamped by a hurricane. Shailene Woodley (The Fault In…
Returning To Neverland With A Disney Legend
Full disclosure: Peter Pan is my favorite Disney movie, and has been since I first saw it at age 13. My son’s childhood room is decorated with Peter Pan artwork. So I jumped at the chance to visit the Disney Studios for…
From The Upfronts: ‘Murphy Brown’ Making Her Comeback
Of all the new shows the networks are promoting at their Upfronts this week, the one that has me the most excited is an oldie but goodie. Murphy Brown is coming back to CBS this fall, on Thursday nights at…
‘Timeless’ Takes Television Beyond The Idiot Box
It’s an interesting coincidence that this week’s suffragette episode of Timeless comes just days after the death of Schoolhouse Rock! songwriter Bob Dorough. One of his iconic songs was “Sufferin’ Till Suffrage,” with the memorable line, “Those pilgrim women who…
