Every time Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave Kensington Palace, they need to be surrounded by security at all times, so it should come as no surprise that their bodyguards made protecting them a little bit easier by coming up with secret security code names for the pair. According to The Sun, Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37, allegedly go by "DS," which is short for their royal titles, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. And to make the code name even more secretive, their security sometimes calls Harry "David Stevens" and Meghan "Davina Scott." How interesting! (Photo Credit: Getty Images) Apparently, Harry and Meghan can't be called by their birth names in public because it's "far too risky." An insider recently told the Daily Star, "If anyone got hold of a phone belonging to a royal aide or security team member, they won't find Harry Windsor and Meghan's names in it." Kate...
- 9/23/2018
- by Joyann Jeffrey
- Closer Weekly
How do you rate a cinematic black hole that doesn’t deserve a single star? Do you simply give it five eyerolls? Better question: How does a movie, with all the talent in the world going for it, become a such a blithering botch job? That’s Life Itself, which counts Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas and Mandy Patinkin in its starry cast. The writer-director is Dan Fogelman riding a wave of TV success with This Is Us (his debut feature Danny Collins, starring Al Pacino, also...
- 9/19/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
This Is Us is such a heartwarming, touching family saga, it’s confounding that the creator cannot bring the same qualities to feature film. Crazy Stupid Love was good and he delivered generic studio fare like The Guilt Trip and Last Vegas, but Danny Collins and Life Itself lack understanding of drama and human beings at all. Life Itself relies on dramatic events that feel blatantly contrived and unnatural. It’s shocking because This Is Us reveals stories like this all the time and feels organic. The story of Randall being left at the fire station or William’s letters with Rebecca are […]
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- 9/18/2018
- by Fred Topel
- Monsters and Critics
As evidence with This Is Us and the engaging feature film Danny Collins, filmmaker/scribe Dan Fogelman is passionate about people who are constantly in flux. Whether it’s a lifelong regret of one’s past or the vagaries of fate, there are forces that simply shape our existence whether we like it or not.
Life Itself focuses on [...]
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- 9/17/2018
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
At some point in the career of far too many a rising writer-director, it seems, especially those who lean into the “writer” portion of their portfolio, a demon alights on their shoulder and whispers, “You should really make a generations-spanning interlocking-stories narrative that says something deep and elusive about the human condition.” Pausing to see how the idea is going down, the imp may then add, “Just think of the cast you could get!”
“Life Itself” stars Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Laia Costa, Olivia Cooke, Mandy Patinkin, Jean Smart, and more, and is the brainchild of writer-director Dan Fogelman, his second directorial feature after “Danny Collins” and the first to come on the heels of his highly successful NBC series “This Is Us.” It is sentimental and sprawling, which are not necessarily bad things, but also manipulative and contrived, which very much are. And though the...
“Life Itself” stars Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Laia Costa, Olivia Cooke, Mandy Patinkin, Jean Smart, and more, and is the brainchild of writer-director Dan Fogelman, his second directorial feature after “Danny Collins” and the first to come on the heels of his highly successful NBC series “This Is Us.” It is sentimental and sprawling, which are not necessarily bad things, but also manipulative and contrived, which very much are. And though the...
- 9/9/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The extent to which your tear ducts well up on cue in Life Itself — a function built into this assaultive bout of emotional uplift with the tireless regularity of a self-flushing toilet — will depend on your threshold for watching people smile through pain. Dan Fogelman is a skilled hand at this kind of shameless manipulation, pushing buttons with enough sophistication and character complexity to make his weepy NBC series This Is Us a hit with most critics as well as audiences. His second feature as writer-director (following 2015’s Danny Collins) sends a classy cast down a similarly twisty multistrand ...
The extent to which your tear ducts well up on cue in Life Itself — a function built into this assaultive bout of emotional uplift with the tireless regularity of a self-flushing toilet — will depend on your threshold for watching people smile through pain. Dan Fogelman is a skilled hand at this kind of shameless manipulation, pushing buttons with enough sophistication and character complexity to make his weepy NBC series This Is Us a hit with most critics as well as audiences. His second feature as writer-director (following 2015’s Danny Collins) sends a classy cast down a similarly twisty multistrand ...
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