After seeing 2022’s “Alice, Darling”, Anna Kendrick went from being an actor I generally liked and respected to an actor I held in high esteem. Naturally, her directorial debut intrigued me. But once I saw it and it ended, I was even more impressed than I expected.
“Woman of the Hour” as a whole is just affecting. It switches between Kendrick’s Cheryl Bradshaw’s life in Los Angeles as a struggling actress (which is honestly more interesting and less generic than…
“Study after study shows that having a good support network constitutes the single most powerful protection against becoming traumatized.” – Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, “The Body Keeps the Score”
We all know Anna Kendrick is a talented actress by now, right? While she did a few roles before “Up in the Air”, her critical acclaim in that movie felt almost immediate in its role in making her a household name, leading her to an Oscar nomination at 24. Even…
On the Sacha Baron Cohen show “Who is America?” last summer, one of the characters was Dr. Nira Cain N’Degeocello, a far-left professor who always wants to make sure everyone is comfortable while trying to understand why the country is so divided and hoping to rebuild burnt bridges, while at the same time, always reminding people of their own privilege, and letting us know he was ashamed of his own for good measure. He referred to black people as “Afro-marginalized”…
