The half-life of radium-226, the toxic isotope touted as a miracle cure-all in the early 20th century and used in phosphorescent paint, is around 1,600 years. That of “Radium Girls,” the David-and Goliath story of a handful of young women taking Big Radium to court in the 1920s, is presumably much shorter.
In the two-and-a-half years since it premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, co-directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler’s dramatization seems to have lost quite a bit of whatever luster it might have once had. Scrupulously sincere in its approach and well-meaning to a fault in intention, the film aims for inspirational true story, but is sadly uninspired, and its relationship to real history is obscured by the schematic way it is fictionalized.
Playing characters who are an amalgam of the real heroines of the radium scandal, the film stars Joey King and Abby Quinn as sisters Bessie and Josephine Cavallo,...
In the two-and-a-half years since it premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, co-directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler’s dramatization seems to have lost quite a bit of whatever luster it might have once had. Scrupulously sincere in its approach and well-meaning to a fault in intention, the film aims for inspirational true story, but is sadly uninspired, and its relationship to real history is obscured by the schematic way it is fictionalized.
Playing characters who are an amalgam of the real heroines of the radium scandal, the film stars Joey King and Abby Quinn as sisters Bessie and Josephine Cavallo,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
In theaters and streaming this Friday, you can catch Radium Girls, starring Joey King (Emmy nominated for her role in The Act) and Abby Quinn (Mad About You).
It's a dramatic story based on true events that occurred in 1928, when people were still starved for miracle cures and needed work more than safety provided at their place of employment.
Bessie and Jo are teenage girls working hard with a lot of others just like them at the American Radium Company. They've already lost their sister, who worked their as well.
When Jo loses a tooth, a mysterious disease begins to unravel their lives as they realize the truth about the American Radium Company and the peril they've been under painting glow-in-the-dark watch dials by hand, upward of 200 per day per person.
This is a time in our country and our world that I haven't spent a lot of time exploring,...
It's a dramatic story based on true events that occurred in 1928, when people were still starved for miracle cures and needed work more than safety provided at their place of employment.
Bessie and Jo are teenage girls working hard with a lot of others just like them at the American Radium Company. They've already lost their sister, who worked their as well.
When Jo loses a tooth, a mysterious disease begins to unravel their lives as they realize the truth about the American Radium Company and the peril they've been under painting glow-in-the-dark watch dials by hand, upward of 200 per day per person.
This is a time in our country and our world that I haven't spent a lot of time exploring,...
- 10/22/2020
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Radium Girls Cine Mosaic Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ginny Mohler, Lydia Dean Pilcher Writer: Ginny Mohler, Brittany Shaw Cast: Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd, Susan Heyward, Neal Huff, Collin Kelly-Sordelet Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/28/20 Opens: October 23, 2020 Pity executives in […]
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- 10/18/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"I'm not losing my job over this!" Juno Films has debuted a new official trailer for an indie true story drama titled Radium Girls, which originally premiered in 2018 at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film follows two teen sisters who dream of Hollywood as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. They soon discover a corporate cover-up about radiation and, in a radical coming-of-age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. The national sensation following the case of the "Radium Girls" ultimately led to significant and lasting impact in the area of workplace health and safety and the study of radioactivity. Starring Joey King and Abby Quinn as the two Cavallo sisters, along with Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd, Susan Heyward, Neal Huff, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, John Bedford Lloyd, and Joe Grifasi. This looks like an important story we've all forgotten about retold again.
- 3/1/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Alter – Gunpowder & Sky’s horror brand is exclusively premiering the award-winning short horror film, The Rat, which made its global debut at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Starring Isabel Shill (“Orange is the New Black”) and Collin Kelly-Sordelet (Wildling), and written and directed by Carlen May-Mann, The Rat won the Audience Award for …
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- 11/20/2019
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
"I thought we could do something fun first... you know, to get in the mood." Alter has released the award-winning short film The Rat online for everyone to watch - check it out below. Written and directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Carlen May-Mann, the short originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Starring Isabel Shill (from "Orange is the New Black") and Collin Kelly-Sordelet, The Rat won the Audience Award for Best Short at the 2019 Method Fest. It's Halloween night, and Renee is left alone by her boyfriend in a haunted house. Growing increasingly frightened, Renee is forced to confront a terrifying situation, and must come to terms with the thing that, deep down, she is most afraid of... It's a compelling and well-made short film posing quandaries and some questions to think about. Worth a watch. Thanks to Scandal Co-Active for the tip on this. Original description...
- 10/23/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Broadway’s Brian d’Arcy James will join the cast of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman next month, leading a largely new company of replacement players in the primary adult roles beginning Tuesday, Feb. 19.
D’Arcy James will take over the role of Quinn Carney from departing cast member Paddy Considine. The actor is one of 15 new cast members announced by producers Sonia Friedman Productions and Neal Street Productions today.
All of the announced newcomers begin next month except for Orange is the New Black‘s Blair Brown, who takes over the role of Aunt Maggie Far Away from Fionnula Flanagan on Tuesday, April 16.
Others in the February replacement cast are Holley Fain, Emily Bergl, Fred Applegate, Ralph Brown, Sean Delaney, Jack Difalco, Ethan Dubin, Shuler Hensley, Terence Keeley, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Ann McDonough, Julia Nightingale and Graham Winton.
The production, directed by Sam Mendes, includes 17 main adults, four children, and...
D’Arcy James will take over the role of Quinn Carney from departing cast member Paddy Considine. The actor is one of 15 new cast members announced by producers Sonia Friedman Productions and Neal Street Productions today.
All of the announced newcomers begin next month except for Orange is the New Black‘s Blair Brown, who takes over the role of Aunt Maggie Far Away from Fionnula Flanagan on Tuesday, April 16.
Others in the February replacement cast are Holley Fain, Emily Bergl, Fred Applegate, Ralph Brown, Sean Delaney, Jack Difalco, Ethan Dubin, Shuler Hensley, Terence Keeley, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Ann McDonough, Julia Nightingale and Graham Winton.
The production, directed by Sam Mendes, includes 17 main adults, four children, and...
- 1/8/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Fritz Böhm’s Wildling is a tooth-and-nail sensuality tale that’s endearingly genrefied upon first and second acts, but millimeters short of a howlin’ good finish. Woodland legends are told and beastly savages teased, all while coming-of-self complexities of the female experience run a strong thematic current. An adolescent girl who is left to fend for herself against aggressive teenage boys, departed parents and womanly welcomings that are otherwise treated as dangerously unleashed. So much to say while transformation hints are contained, relevant in a world of sheltered realities. Love in a time of hairballs – with much more to show, I promise.
Explorations center around Anna (Bel Powley), who is found heavily medicated and detached from reality. “Daddy” (Brad Dourif) kept her locked away from the world, feeding the child fables about “Wildlings” who’d come and eat her if she escaped into the thick wilderness. Doctors want to shove the scared,...
Explorations center around Anna (Bel Powley), who is found heavily medicated and detached from reality. “Daddy” (Brad Dourif) kept her locked away from the world, feeding the child fables about “Wildlings” who’d come and eat her if she escaped into the thick wilderness. Doctors want to shove the scared,...
- 3/30/2018
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
IFC Midnight has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to “Wildling” ahead of its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Festival. Directed by Fritz Böhm and written by Böhm and Florian Eder, the film stars Bel Powley, Liv Tyler and Brad Dourif. James Le Gros, Collin Kelly-Sordelet and Mike Faist also star. “Wildling” follows Anna (Powley), a woman who has spent her entire childhood locked in an attic, being cared for by a man whom she knows as Daddy. He tells her of a child-eating monster called the Wildling, and when she is freed from the attic, her nightmares of the Wildling return. Also...
- 2/7/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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