Susan Granger

Westport

Movie Writer and Critic at Freelance

Entertainment Writer at Freelance

Movie Critic at Hearst

Born and raised in Hollywood's motion picture industry, I'm a syndicated movie/drama critic and lecturer on THE MYTHOLOGY AND MAGIC OF HOLLYWOOD.

Articles

FAMILIES LIKE OURS - Review by Susan Granger

1 week ago | awfj.org | Susan Granger

0 Flares 0 Flares × To quote Shakespeare’s Hamlet – totally out of context – “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”…as that entire country faces mandatory evacuation. Set in the not-too-distant future, Thomas Vinterberg’s seven-episode miniseries “Families Like Ours” chronicles what happens when calamitous climate change forces six million Danish citizens to flee slowly encroaching sea water.
'La Palma' a bingeworthy thrill ride

1 week ago | ctinsider.com | Susan Granger

With the recent eruption of Mt. Etna in Sicily in the news, it's a good time to discover "La Palma," a four-part series on Netflix, revolving around a Norwegian family who travel to that Spanish landmass, part of the Canary Islands, to bask in the sun during the Christmas holiday.
'Last Breath' keeps viewers on edge of their seat

2 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Susan Granger

If you enjoy sitting on the edge of your seat, heart-racing, biting your nails with anxiety about what will happen next, "Last Breath" is for you. Based on a true story, it's about a diver performing routine pipeline repair work 300 feet below the surface of the North Sea when the cable attached to his diving bell snapped, leaving him stranded in the dark with his oxygen running out.
YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS - Review by Susan Granger

3 weeks ago | awfj.org | Susan Granger

0 Flares 0 Flares × Mad Men alum Jon Hamm’s new, nine-episode series “Your Friends and Neighbors” could be subtitled “Lifestyles of the Rich and Miserable.”As the dark crime caper begins, Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Hamm) is a charming-if-cynical hedge fund executive who gets fired. Adding insult to injury, his wife Mel (Amanda Peet) is having an affair with his best-friend Nick Brandes (Mark Tallman), an NBA legend who has, literally, moved into Coop’s former McMansion.
ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

3 weeks ago | awfj.org | Susan Granger

0 Flares 0 Flares × With the release of Saw (2004), fans of the low-budget horror genre were introduced to a new premise, one that was even more terrifying because of its believability. Now, Locked follows in its footsteps. Sleazy, selfish Eddie Barrish (Bill Skarsgard) is a petty thief, deadbeat dad who often forgets to pick up his daughter Sarah (Ashley Cartwright) from school and is perpetually behind on child support payments to his estranged wife.
Latest 'Mission Impossible' flick a engaging, thrill ride

3 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Susan Granger

"Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning" is a compelling action-adventure thriller that grips you from the get go and propels your adrenaline for almost three hours.
ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

4 weeks ago | awfj.org | Susan Granger

0 Flares 0 Flares × Feel-good films are few and far-between these days, so discovering Nonnas was an unexpected delight. Nonnas was inspired by the true story of Jody Scaravella who, after the death of his mother, opened a restaurant called Enoteca Maria. Always captivated by watching his Italian mother and grandmother (‘nonna’) in the kitchen, the words of comfort that touched inconsolable Joey (Vince Vaughn) the most were: “You need to feed your grief.
ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

4 weeks ago | awfj.org | Susan Granger

0 Flares 0 Flares × “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FINAL RECKONING - Review by Susan Granger

1 month ago | awfj.org | Susan Granger

0 Flares 0 Flares × Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning is a compelling action-adventure thriller that grips you from the getgo and propels your adrenaline for almost three hours.
DEATH OF A UNICORN - Review by Susan Granger

1 month ago | awfj.org | Susan Granger

0 Flares 0 Flares × Judging by its outlandish subject matter, I expected writer/director Alex Scharfman’s Death of a Unicorn to – at the very least – be an intriguing fantasy/satire. Instead it’s astoundingly awful!As widower Elliot (Paul Rudd), a mild-mannered corporate compliance lawyer, and his angsty Gen-Z daughter Ridley (Jenny Ortega) are driving through a remote Canadian wilderness preserve to visit the estate of his billionaire boss, they accidentally hit a young unicorn.