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Movie Blog Post: REBEL IN THE RYE | GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor A biopic about the celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, famous for his novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”. (died 2010 age 91) the movie is written and directed by Danny Strong who is the co-creator of the TV Show Empire (w/ Lee Daniels) and for other Gilmore Girl fans like myself, he plays Paris’s boyfriend Doyle. Rebel in the Rye stars Nicholas Hoult, who was a child actor in one of my all time favorite movies About a Boy with Hugh Grant. He’s also Beast in a number of the X-men movies, a cute zombie in Warm Bodies (see below) and I’m really looking…
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mother!
My first impression of this film by auteur Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) is that it’s wack, self-indulgent and a sheer waste of time. But then, given more time to ruminate on it, break it down, look at the allegories, I did discover some beauty in the madness. But not enough to take the time and energy to put it all down in black and white. Especially after I discovered this perfectly dissected review on Silver Screen Riots : mother!’ is not the movie you think it is but it remains one of 2017’s most provocative and engaging examples of auteur filmmaking. Captivating and challenging, brutal and bloodcurdling, steeped in madness,…
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Lionsgate’s: REMEMORY
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I was sent another screener by Lionsgate, this time for a Sci-Fi Mystery called Rememory starring Peter Dinklage, best known as Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones. Writer/director Mark Palansky (co-writer Michael Vukadinovich) wrote this movie with Dinklage in mind, having nothing to do with his size, other than the size of his talent – discovered after working together on Palansky’s first movie Penelope (2006) which also starred Christina Ricci, James McAvoy & Reese Witherspoon. I’m not familiar with this movie at all, but it’s BTT (before Tinsel & Tine) so I wasn’t as plugged in. In Rememory Dinklage just plays a loner type guy…
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THE TRIP TO SPAIN
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Tinsel & Tine’s Look at 3rd in Foodie Film Series For a food and film blog, I have to admit my foodie movie posts are few and far between. Often, I’ll see a foodie film trailer and be like, I’ve gotta get back to that, but the plot doesn’t really pull me into wanting to see it. Not so with this series of foodie travel films starring British comedians Rob Brydon & Steve Coogan. THE TRIP TO SPAIN is the 3rd, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom. They’re actually a BBC TV series, starting in 2010 with THE TRIP, which are edited into feature films;…
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Lionsgate’s: UNLOCKED
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Every so often I am sent a screener code by a studio and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing a film that will have a limited release. I love this, of course, because it makes me feel like a real insider. This time it was Lionsgate who emailed me about a Spy thriller called UNLOCKED. It stars Noomi Rapace (Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series) John Malkovich, Michael Douglas, Orlando Bloom and Toni Collette (who looks just like Annie Lennox in this movie). At first I didn’t understand the title until I watched an interview with Rapace, who plays Alice…
