The
Shape of Water
The
Shape of Water, from master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, is an
other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America
circa 1962. The hidden high-security government laboratory where lonely Elisa
(Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed
forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret
classified experiment. Rounding out the cast are Michael Shannon, Richard
Jenkins, Doug Jones and Michael Stuhlbarg. It is Drana, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Romance directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor.
The Post
The Post tells the story
of the news of the Pentagon Papers focusing on the free press and a White
House struggling to keep the secrets of how our government handled the Vietnam
War. Kay Graham (Meryl Streep), the beleaguered publisher of the Post and
Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), the editor. Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) walked away
with thousands of pages on the history of Vietnam, including sensitive and
confidential information that revealed the lies the government had told the
American people for years.
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Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
No one does angry better than Frances McDormand, who does her best film work here since Fargo as Mildred Hayes, a recently divorced mother who lost her daughter Angela less
than a year ago. Angela was raped and murdered, but the case has gone cold.
There was no matching DNA, so the spotlight has dimmed and Mildred is getting
no updates. She’s angry. She should be. One day, she sees three barren
billboards on a rarely-traveled road, and she rents the space to ask the local
chief of police, (Wood Harrelson) why there are no answers. Local media becomes interested in
the billboards, and the attention sparks a series of events involving not only
the chief but one of his more loathsome officers, played by Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Clarke Peters and John Hawkes fill
out supporting cast. Shhh - It's shot in North Carolina, so it isn't a win for the Missouri Film Commission...
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