Tag: Glenn Close

Wake Up Dead Man–A Holier-Than-Thou Mystery

Written by Diana Paul on December 29, 2025. Posted in movie reviews.

Wake Up Dead Man takes place in Chimney Rock, a small town in upstate New York, where a newly ordained Catholic priest named Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) has been assigned to work under Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin). An aging, hateful right-wing cleric, Wicks has nothing but contempt for gay...

“Four Good Days” (2021) –After Ten Bad Years

Written by Diana Paul on May 24, 2022. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “Four Good Days” (2021) –After Ten Bad Years

Inspired by a Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post article, Four Good Days tackles the almost insurmountable ordeal of drug withdrawal. And also confronts the parent-adult child relationship that fails repeatedly to lead to a successful outcome. Thirty-year-old Molly (Mila Kunis) is the damaged and severely addicted...

“The Wife”–The Invisible Woman, or…Stand by My Man

Written by diana on October 6, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on “The Wife”–The Invisible Woman, or…Stand by My Man

The Wife, based upon Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling novel by the same name, opens with a sixty-something affluent couple, Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) and her husband, Joe (Jonathan Pryce), waiting for the phone to ring in the middle of the night. A perhaps futile hope that the Nobel Prize committee will grant Joe his dream of a...

Tag: Glenn Close

Wake Up Dead Man–A Holier-Than-Thou Mystery

“Four Good Days” (2021) –After Ten Bad Years

“The Wife”–The Invisible Woman, or…Stand by My Man

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