Anton Chekhov’s play about a couple of writers — one nascent, one established —and a couple of actresses — one aspiring, one not retiring — gathered for a family reunion at a lake house in the country proves to be unfilmable, at least here. It could be that the manifest …
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) take on the case, the two find …
No, not the Hilton sisters, America’s once loved and sadly forgotten Siamese twins. Instead, Geoffrey Fletcher’s violent and ditzy Violet & Daisy gives us a pair of blue-eyed teenage hit-girls (32-year-old Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan, basically reprising her role as Hanna) who are assigned the job of whacking Michael …