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Tag: Margot Robbie

  • Barbie: Living and Dreaming in the IRL highly Meta-Life

    Barbie: Living and Dreaming in the IRL highly Meta-Life

    Storyline via IMDB: Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence. Review: There is a lot of feminism floating through Barbie. Some thoughts of death too— the perfect doll ruminating, fearing, crying about a mortal end. It turns out to be a rip in the Barbie-real world continuum, a…

  • “Mary Queen of Scots”: Beau Willimon’s Historical House of Cards

    “Mary Queen of Scots”: Beau Willimon’s Historical House of Cards

    If Mary Queen of Scots plays like a couple of overheated and talky episodes of House of Cards that’s because Beau Willimon wrote the screenplay. This historical drama about how Mary Stuart of Scotland (Saoirse Ronan) and Queen Elizabeth I of England (Margot Robbie) moved from being frenemies to enemies is long on pageantry, eloquent…