Tag: Brie Larson

Lessons in Chemistry–A Delicious Dose

Written by Diana Paul on December 6, 2023. Posted in Television reviews.

Based upon Bonnie Garmus’s bestselling blockbuster of the same name, the AppleTV+ mini-series Lessons in Chemistry opens in 1961, at the cusp of the feminist and civil rights revolutions. Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson, Academy Award-winning actress of “Room”), a highly educated and talented chemist, has taken a job as a low-level...

“Room”—No Haven or Home

Written by diana on March 9, 2016. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “Room”—No Haven or Home

Based on the searing novel by Emma Donaghue, “Room” is a movie both disturbing and compelling. For five-year-old Jack (amazing Jacob Tremblay), Room is his home, a 11 x 11 foot shed where he was born, after his teenaged mom (Brie Larson, in her Academy Award winning role)—was kidnapped, imprisoned and sexually assaulted daily by Old...

“Short Term 12” —Fostering Care

Written by diana on January 20, 2016. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on “Short Term 12” —Fostering Care

In this 2013 film debut by Destin Cretton, we see Grace (Brie Larson) as a counselor in a group home for “at-risk” youth,–Short Term 12— a facility for “transitioning” out adolescents into the world. Grace is a beautiful, extremely vulnerable case worker who relates to everyone in the Short Term 12 residence. She...

Tag: Brie Larson

Lessons in Chemistry–A Delicious Dose

“Room”—No Haven or Home

“Short Term 12” —Fostering Care

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