Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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Food in Film: JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The artwork for the poster is what first drew me to this documentary, as most regular readers know, the “Tine” in Tinsel & Tine stands for the tines of a fork, so when I saw the “Jeremiah Tower” poster of the fork giving the middle tine, like a middle finger, it made me laugh! But when I got to the theater, I saw trailers for the new Richard Gere movie The Dinner and the rare glimpse of Debra Winger in The Lovers, and suddenly I really wanted to see a narrative film, not a doc on a temperamental chef. Surprisingly, I got what I was…
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COLOSSAL
Only he figured out a smarter way to not only make the storyline more interesting than a traditional Kaiju, he also was able to keep the budget low, as we mainly experience the Monster through media - cellphones, Youtube, TV, so you don’t need to see it stomping around with a crazy amount of CGI to make an impact.
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GIFTED (Chris Evans)
It would seem this emotional cocktail of extreme brilliance, an overbearing parent, overwhelming self-expectations with possible postpartum depression, adding the final blow, caused Diane to take her own life, leaving her baby daughter Mary (Mckenna Grace) in the care of her brother Frank (Chris Evans)...
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Movie Blog Post: THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE
Every time a movie like this comes out, I think Oh boy, another Holocaust movie. I feel the same way about a Slave Narratives. But then, inevitably the filmmaker finds a way to once again awaken you to the horrors of these inhumane atrocities in a new way...
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SONG TO SONG
I enjoy movies set inside the music scene like: Almost Famous, Crazy Heart, Walk the Line, Inside Llewyn Davis, La La Land, even The Runaways, with Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart playing Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, it's pretty bad, but still has something to recommend it. These movies depict some aspect or time period of the music industry.
