Tag: Margot Robbie

A clip from Margot Robbie’s best performance

Jeff Mitchell

Margot Robbie turns 30 years young on July 2!  Happy Birthday, Ms. Robbie.  Margot has worked with big costars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Jared Leto, Domhnall Gleeson, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and more. She’s also played one of the biggest female comic book villains in movie history…twice, but our favorite Margot Robbie performance is her masterful turn as Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya” (2017). In this clip, a judge hands down a difficult sentence to Ms. Harding (Robbie), and when our critic saw “I, Tonya” at the 2017 Toronto International Film…

‘Birds of Prey’ might have you praying for a better movie

Jeff Mitchell

“Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” – Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is a badass broad.  Don’t take this critic’s word for it.  She gave herself that moniker in “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey”, and why not.  She earned a PhD.  She plays roller derby.  She swings a baseball bat when trouble is afoot.  She loves greasy egg sandwiches with a hearty slice of cheese, and she’s Joker’s girlfriend. Well, she was Joker’s girlfriend.  Sometime after Harley Quinn’s previous big screen performance in the dreadful “Suicide Squad” (2016) – where she and…

Say hello to an insightful biopic, ‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’

Jeff Mitchell

“Goodbye Christopher Robin” –  The name Christopher Robin should quickly resonate with anyone who has watched a Winnie the Pooh television special, film or read one of A.A. Milne’s (Domhnall Gleeson) children’s novels.  Friends with Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin is a human character in these tales, but he also doubles as the real-life son of A.A. Milne, and director Simon Curtis (“My Week with Marilyn” (2011), “Woman in Gold” (2015)) explores this absorbing family story as well as the origin of an exceedingly popular and lovable literary bear. Curtis…