Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend. I took a bit of a break from blogging this weekend, but this week has been pretty busy in terms of movie watching. It's the last week of the MSPIFF 2014 and I saw three more films, one short of what I intended to see but …
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The film festivities continues! Today we've got a couple more MSPIFF 2014 reviews courtesy of Josh from JJAMES reviews. Paulette (2013) Paulette is a French comedy with a simple plot and simple characters to match. The titular protagonist (Bernadette Lafont) is an unpleasant elderly woman who, along with her late husband, once ran a successful …
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Breathe In I have to admit I'm usually not into films about infidelity as it often gets glamorized on film and those getting cheated on often appear as if they deserve what happen to them. Luckily that's not the case here. It's more of a character study on temptation and the fragility of people who …
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Happy Sunday everyone! We've got a couple more MSPIFF 2014 reviews courtesy of Josh from JJAMES reviews. Hotell (2013) A Swedish film written and directed by Lisa Langseth, Hotell follows Erika (Alica Vikander), a beautiful and pregnant young woman with an almost idyllic life. Already moneyed and apparently successful, she and her husband, Oskar (Simon …
Happy Friday everyone! I don't usually post about the same actor back to back, but y'know what, I've been wanting to highlight some scenes from FACE/OFF. I'm an unabashed fan of this John Woo movie, and it's no doubt one of my favorite 90s action flicks. Ok so technically John Travolta plays Castor Troy as …
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As a big fan of classical music, I have always been a fan of piano music. In fact, I grew up listening to Richard Clayderman in the car nearly every single day as the French pianist is my late mother's favorite. This month's music break is inspired by a scene I saw on Monday night. …
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JOE Review by Josh P. Often grim, Joe is well made and gripping, though, perhaps, not for the faint-hearted. In the film’s first scene, writers Larry Brown & Gary Hawkins and director David Gordon Green define Joe as a harsh drama. In it, fifteen-year-old Gary (Tye Sheridan) accosts his father, Wade (Gary Poulter), for being …
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