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About Caroline Ely

Caroline Ely is a TV, movie, and art lover who worked for years in the television industry. Until a few years ago, she would have described herself as well traveled, and she hopes to live up to that description again very soon. She lives in New York and often heads to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Wild Nights with Emily

Director and writer Madeleine Olnek has a hoot sending up and tearing down Emily Dickinson's priggish image.

By |April 12th, 2019|Comedy|0 Comments

Roll Red Roll

How do you cover up a heinous crime when you’ve tweeted and posted it all over social media?

By |March 21st, 2019|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

Transit

An enigmatic study of living in limbo on the way to somewhere else.

By |February 28th, 2019|Germany|0 Comments

Destroyer

Nicole Kidman has achieved an unnerving transformation to play a ravaged police detective in director Karyn Kusama’s sweeping, dark film.

By |December 20th, 2018|Top Picks|0 Comments

Happy as Lazzaro

Director Alice Rohrwacher somehow manages to make a fantastical tale cohere and remain compelling.

By |November 29th, 2018|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments

Narcissister Organ Player

Narcissister, a performance artist who changes in and out of costumes and transforms shape through dance, music, burlesque, all the while telling her life story.

By |November 26th, 2018|Documentary|0 Comments

Widows

A moody, fleet-footed story of four women out for revenge—and big money.

By |November 16th, 2018|Crime, Top Picks|0 Comments

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Melissa McCarthy stars in the bizarre tale of Lee Israel and is well matched by Richard E. Grant as an accomplice and fellow drunk.

By |October 19th, 2018|Top Picks|0 Comments

Beautiful Boy

A tightly focused story of a family’s beloved son hooked on drugs and the cycle of using, cleaning up, relapsing in agony, and cleaning up again.

By |October 12th, 2018|Book adaptation|0 Comments