Fresh off winning best picture and director at the last Academy Awards for her masterpiece “Nomadland”, Chloe Zhao delivers the most unusual Marvel film in some time. Unusual is a welcome diversion from the familiar superheroes, whose origin stories have been played out to exhaustion. While the big question of how these “Eternals” fit into […]
What people do when they get older varies immeasurably, depending on family, circumstances, personal preference, and many other reasons. That there is a group of oldsters who travel around—mostly in vans and RVs—is new to me, as probably for most of us. Some are facing the end of life and want to make the most of it,
Chloé Zhao’s sobering drama The Rider is a mixed bag of filmmaking elements and emotions. The Chinese filmmaker discovered cowboy Brady Jandreau while doing research on a previous film. Her next project would revolve entirely around Jandreau’s life and desperate situation, even casting the South Dakota rider and his family as themselves. Zhao’s The Rider