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THE BULLETIN • JANUARY 7 - 13, 2021
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“Movie: One Night in Miami”
“Movie: Herself ”
“Movie: Black Bear”
Phyllida Lloyd (“The Iron Lady,” “Mamma
Mia!”) directed this well-received 2020
drama about a young mother (Clare
Dunne, “Nice Night for It”) who escapes
her abusive husband who fights back
against a broken housing system. She
endeavors to build her own home, and in
the process rebuilds her life and rediscovers
herself. Harriet Walter, Conleth Hill and
Cathy Belton also star.
Aubrey Plaza (“Parks and Recreation”) stars
as a filmmaker at a creative impasse who
heads off on a rural retreat to clear her
head only to find the detour has unleashed
her inner demons in intense and surprising
ways in this 2020 drama from director
Lawrence Michael Levine (“Gabi on the
Roof in July,” “Always Shine”). Sarah
Gadon, Christopher Abbott and Lindsay
Burdge also star.
BY JAY BOBBIN
“The Time Machine”
“The Birds”
“Sunday in New York”
“Movie: Honest Thief ”
Hoping to go straight, a professional thief
(Liam Neeson, the “Taken” movies) cuts
a deal to pay back all the money he owes
in exchange for a reduced sentence. But
when FBI agents set him up for murder,
he’s forced to go on the run in this 2020
actioner from director Mark Williams
(“A Family Man”). Kate Walsh and Jai
Courtney also star.
Regina King (“Watchmen”) directed this
1964-set drama in which a young Cassius
Clay, who had just defeated Sonny Liston
in Miami Beach for the heavyweight
championship, is forced to leave the island
and the ensuing celebrations due to the
Jim Crow laws of the time. Instead, he
stays in a historically black neighborhood
with three of his closest friends: activist
Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and
football star Jim Brown. Eli Goree, and
Aldis Hodge star. (ORIGINAL)
BEST ROD TAYLOR MOVIES
“Giant” (1956) Billed as “Rodney Taylor,”
the actor had one of his first significant parts
in director George Stevens’ Oscar-winning
version of the Edna Ferber novel about
wealth, romance and rivalry in Texas.
“The Time Machine” (1960) The
H.G. Wells tale gave Taylor one of his most
popular hits, thanks also to the touch of
fantasy-producing staple George Pal.
“The Birds” (1963) Taylor makes a
solid hero going up against flocks of
feathered non-friends in Alfred Hitchcock’s
classic, ever-unsettling thriller.
“Sunday in New York” (1964)
Norman Krasna’s adaptation of his stage
play gave Taylor one of his most popular
roles as a man whose chance encounter
with a Big Apple visitor (Jane Fonda) sets
the stage for a new romance.
“Young Cassidy” (1965) Inspired
by the life of playwright Sean O’Casey,
this drama – started by legendary director
John Ford – reunited Taylor with his leading
lady from “The V.I.P.s,” Maggie Smith.
“The Glass Bottom Boat” (1966)
In his second teaming with Doris Day,
Taylor turns up the charm as an aerospace
executive who comes to worry that his new
employee (Day) might be a spy.
“Hotel” (1967) Taylor is ideally cast in
this saga based on Arthur Hailey’s novel,
playing the manager of a New Orleans
hotel targeted for a takeover while various
dramas unfold among the staff and guests.
“Dark of the Sun” (1968) At his
brawniest here, Taylor plays a mercenary
facing peril from all sides in the Congo
while planning a theft of uncut diamonds.
“Darker Than Amber” (1970)
Rarely seen now, this impressively gritty
mystery stars a very tough Taylor as
novelist John D, MacDonald’s private eye
Travis McGee.
“Inglourious Basterds” (2009)
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino enlisted
Taylor for what turned out to be the actor’s
final role, as British statesman Winston
Churchill.
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