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Movie Blog Post: SOLACE
A LOOK AT LIONSGATE SOLACE MOVIE By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Once again as per my recent post – Death & Departures: A Holiday Message, which discusses the themes of loss and grief in Collateral Beauty, Manchester By the Sea, A Monster Calls and Almost Christmas, the very next movie I viewed, Solace, just happened to fall into the same category of terminal illness and life altering grief. SOLACE starring Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Farrell and Abbie Cornish, directed by Afonso Poyart, is a police investigation murder mystery originally planned and developed as a sequel to Se7en (1995), but was re-written to be its own…
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Movie Blog Post: COLLATERAL BEAUTY
Out of my heart, one treach’rous winter’s day, I locked young Love and threw the key away. Grief, wandering widely, found the key, And hastened with it, straightway, back to me, With Love beside him. He unlocked the door And bade Love enter with him there and stay. And so the twain abide for evermore. “Love And Grief” – Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar Death & Departure: A Holiday Message By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor of Tinsel & Tine What’s with all the death and dealing with the process of grief stuff this holiday season? David E. Talbert’s Almost Christmas (click for T&T post) deals with a family trying…
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Philly Interview: DAMIEN CHAZELLE – LA LA LAND
By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Damien Chazelle, the writer/director of Whiplash, and his collaborative partner, composer Justin Hurwitz have created a beguiling, unapologetically romantic homage to classic movie musicals in LA LA LAND (opening film of the 25th Philadelphia Film Festival – click for T&T coverage). The opening scene, a single continuous shot shows a traffic jam in L.A., where all of the drivers emerge from their vehicles and break into song and dance. The film shouts to the audience that this is a throwback to old-school Hollywood musicals, thus, resulting in the audience understanding to view the film with a suspension of disbelief from the beginning.…
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Movie Blog Post: MISS SLOANE
Sloane is always impeccably put together, but she's flawed: can't sleep, pops pills, pushes herself too the limit, expects too much from those around her and pays for sex
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Philly Spotlight: JAWNT Philly Concierge Start Up
TINSEL & TINE INTERVIEWWITH YOUNG PHILLY ENTREPRENEUR by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor My name is Cal Williams and I am a rising senior in high school. Last summer, my friend and I came up with and pitched a business proposal. Our company, Jawnt is a Philadelphia-specific company that specializes in planning one’s night for them. Currently, we are doing dinner reservations only. To gain a customer base, we figured it would be effective to reach out to people like you for a possible partnership. We would ask that in exchange for a spot on our website under “partners,” we would ask to be featured on your blog or website. Now…
