Susan Granger

4 days 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.

6 days 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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.