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Hotel Artemis, which opens on Friday,
June 8, is another Dystopian, quasi-
science-fiction thriller. In the near-future,
Los Angeles is riot-torn. Jodie Foster
plays “The Nurse,” who runs a secret,
members-only hospital for criminals. The
cast includes Jeff Goldblum, 65, and
Jenny Slate, 35.
Hereditary, which also opens on June
8, got glowing reviews when it was
played at the most recent Sundance
Film Festival. It is described as a unique
and very chilling horror movie. Basic
plot: When Ellen (Toni Collette) passes
away, her daughter’s family begins to
unravel cryptic and increasingly terrify-
ing secrets about their ancestry. As they
find out more about their lineage, they
try to outrun a sinister fate that seems to
be inherited. Alex Wolff, 20, plays one
of Ellen’s sons. Milly Shapiro, 18, makes
her film debut playing Ellen’s daughter.
She won a special Tony for originating
the role of Matilda in the Broadway musi-
cal of the same name (2012). I strongly
suspect that Shapiro is Jewish, but bio-
graphical details are few, as with most
film newcomers.
The Hereditary director and writer, Ari
Aster, a Brooklyn native, is known for
going out on the edge cinematically. His
2011 short fictional film, The Strange
Thing about the Johnsons, was about a
model black family marred by one nasty
secret: molestation. The film got good
reviews. Still, Aster, about 30, had to
respond to questions about how a “white,
Jewish guy” could write and direct such
a film. He replied that race had little to
do with the story.
Much lighter is Ocean’s 8. This entry
in the Ocean’s movies features a gang
of female criminals who plot to steal
incredibly valuable jewelry from an easy-
to-hate Hollywood diva (Anne Hathaway).
The all-star cast includes Sandra Bullock,
Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling and Sarah
Paulson. It was directed and written
by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit and the first
Hunger Games film), 61. Opens June 8.
The documentary To A More Perfect
Union opens on Tuesday, June 12,
at the Maple Theater in Bloomfield
Township. It’s about the landmark case
U.S. v. Windsor (2013), in which the U.S.
Supreme Court struck down a section
of the Defense of Marriage Act which
prohibited the IRS from tax-exempting an
inheritance from one same-sex spouse
to another (heterosexual married couples
have this exemption). Edie Windsor
(1929-2017) legally married her partner
of 40 years, Thea Spyer, in Toronto,

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Thea Spyer and Edie Windsor

Canada, in 2007 (Spyer, who was Dutch,
fled to America just before the Nazis
invaded Holland). Spyer, who had long
suffered from multiple sclerosis (Windsor
nursed her), died in 2009, age 78. She
left her estate to Windsor. The IRS told
Windsor to pay a $363,000 inheritance
tax bill. Top attorney Roberta Kaplan,
now 52, agreed to represent Windsor
in her fight for equal tax treatment. The
documentary tells Windsor and Kaplan’s
legal and personal journeys in their own
words. It features interviews with them
and with other members of their legal
team (as well as interviews with their
opponents). •