Tune in for the latest Cinema Scribe segment on Bring Me 2 Life Radio, beginning Tuesday December 9, available by clicking here. You can also catch it later on demand on Spreaker, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Castbox, Podchaser, Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict and Jiosaavn ...

“Eleanor the Great” (2025). Cast: June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht, Rita Zohar, Will Price, Lauren Klein, Stephen Singer, Elaine Bromka, Ray Anthony Thomas, Barbara Andres. Director: Scarlett Johansson. Screenplay: Tory Kamen. Web site. Trailer. We’ve all been taught the wisdom behind the notion of “honesty is the best policy.” It’s sound, solid guidance that’s nearly always appropriate (provided it’s not carried to an unhealthy extreme). But what about the opposite of this advice: Is there ever any benefit in a falsehood, the so-called “good lie?” At first glance, it might be easy to dismiss this idea out of hand, but what if something less than truthful is capable of imparting insight, inspiration or comfort to someone in distress? In cases like that, can it realistically be summarily rejected? Those are intriguing questions raised in the new comedy-drama-character study, “Eleanor the Great.” Eleanor Morgenstein (June Squibb) has lived a long and happy life. The spry 94-year-old former New Yorker has spent the past few decades in retirement in Florida, first with her devoted husband, who died 12 years ago, and since then with her longtime best friend and roommate, Bessie Stern (Rita Zohar). But, when Bessie passes, Eleanor ...

Reviews of “Bugonia” and “Eternity,” along with a Chicago Film Festival wrap-up, are all in the latest Movies with Meaning post on the web site of The Good Media Network, by clicking here ...

Tune in for the latest Cinema Scribe segment on Bring Me 2 Life Radio, beginning Tuesday November 25, available by clicking here. You can also catch it later on demand on Spreaker, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Castbox, Podchaser, Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict and Jiosaavn ...

“Eternity” (2025). Cast: Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, John Early, Olga Merediz, Barry Primus, Betty Buckley, Tailya Evans, Panta Mosleh, Ryan Biel, David Z. Cohen. Director: David Freyne. Screenplay: Patrick Cunnane and David Freyne. Web site. Trailer. Life can sometimes present us with hard choices. However, strange as it might sound, death might actually hand us some even bigger ones. That might throw us for a huge, unexpected loop, especially if we go into the afterlife envisioning it as a stress-free experience, one assumed to be characterized by unending happiness and bliss. Such is the dilemma posed to a recently deceased woman who now faces a decision that’s not at all what she anticipated, a choice far greater and more difficult than anything she experienced while alive. These are the curiously confusing conditions examined in the entertaining and enlightening new romantic comedy-drama-fantasy, “Eternity.” Many of us might perceive death as an intimidating prospect, but, at the same time, many of us also look upon it as a time of eternal joy and contentment, a chance to recover from life’s difficulties, a time to truly rest in peace. That generally seems to be what Joan Cutler (Betty ...

Tune in for the latest Cinema Scribe segment on Bring Me 2 Life Radio, beginning Tuesday November 11, available by clicking here. You can also catch it later on demand on Spreaker, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Castbox, Podchaser, Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict and Jiosaavn ...