By 2015, the combination of director David O Russell and actress Jennifer Lawrence had been incredibly successful at the Oscars. Lawrence won what, at time of writing, is her only Oscar for her role in Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook and followed this up one year later with a supporting actress nomination in his next movie … Continue reading
There are some performers that I wasn’t familiar with going into this stage of the blog and Dianne Ladd was one of these. Although I knew the name, I didn’t know a lot about her apart from the fact that she was Laura Dern’s mother. Looking back on her filmography, the only movie I think … Continue reading
I continue my trawl through the career of David Lynch by journeying back fifteen years before Mulholland Drive to arguably the director’s best known work, Blue Velvet. I do feel that Blue Velvet incorporates elements of the two Lynch films that I’ve seen before as it has macabre segments to rival The Elephant Man and … Continue reading
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