For some reason I had missed this film when it was released last Fall, and I kind of forgotten about it until it arrived on HBO Max this weekend. I’m not a die-hard Wes Anderson fan, after all I haven’t seen Isle of Dogs yet, but I enjoyed Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, and The …
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Cyrano de Bergerac is one of my favorite plays I saw at a local theatre, The Guthrie, a few years ago. Edmond Rostand’s classic romance has been adapted into various format, as well as been the inspiration for many modern rom-coms. But the right filmmaker can make an oft-told story feels fresh and new again, …
Happy Twosday!! It's already Wednesday in some countries I know, but hey it's still late afternoon where I am now... so apparently today is quite an unusual day... 2/22/22, both a palindrome AND an ambigram… aaand it falls on Tuesday, uncanny! The date is quite rare, as it won't happen again for another 400 years, …
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I’ve been curious about seeing this since Kristen Stewart became a critical favorite at the start of award season. So when she was nominated for Oscars and the film finally dropped in HULU, I just had to check it out. Going into the film I knew this wasn’t a standard biopic of the late Princess …
This project has been in development hell for over a decade. I actually have blogged about it in 2010 when Mark Wahlberg was still attached to play Nathan Drake, though whenever I look at the video game rendering of the character, I always thought Nathan Fillion would’ve been perfect. I also listed Richard Armitage as …
So I watched not one but TWO new rom-coms last week, which is unusual as I haven’t been too impressed with most modern rom-coms which tend to be a bit too edgy or cynical about love and romance for my taste. Well, if you read my review of Marry Me, that movie is definitely a …
Happy belated Valentine's Day, hope your V-day was a special one. I personally don't see why we can't celebrate love and romance any time of the year. Well, I was on my way home from the gym today and was listening to Classical MPR when host Lynne Warfel's Love at the Movies came on which …
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