Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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Podcast Movie Blog Post: GHOSTBUSTERS 2016
I'm sorry to say it, but this new version isn't very good. All the elements were there, good casting, Paul Feig director of Bridesmaids & Spy, fun CGI, but the beats, timing, laughs, are all a no go on this much anticipated vehicle, written by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig. It has its moments, and of course you're happy for each cameo; still, most of the humor lands like a wet noodle and it dawdles...
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Movie Blog Post: BFFs starring Tara Karsian & Andrea Grano
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Indie Film Spotlight: BFFs by Writers, Producers, Co-Stars Tara Karsian and Andrea Grano Looking for a few days of vacation and amusement, two best friends pretend to be lovers while attending a couple’s weekend workshop. I received a screener for this film, BFFs,which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Kat (Tara Karsian) is having one of those weeks where you break up with your long term boyfriend right before your birthday and your mother’s gift to you is a weekend couples retreat. Kat’s best friend Samantha (Andrea Grano) with easy familiarity appropriates most of Kat’s birthday gifts for herself, including trying to figure out…
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Movie Blog Post: NOW YOU SEE ME 2
It’s a year later and three of the Four Horsemen are still fugitives - Magician (J Daniel Atlas /Jesse Eisenberg), Mentalist (Merritt McKinney/Woody Harrelson) sleight-of-hander (Jack Wilder/Dave Franco) Isla Fisher was pregnant at the time of filming and declined to reprise her role...
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Movie Blog Post: Alice Through the Looking Glass | Captain America: Civil War | X-men: Apocalypse
Even Alice (Mia Wasikowska) who fervently believes in 6 impossible things before breakfast, knows that time has the final say on death and can't get behind her friend the Hatter's (Johnny Depp) notion that his family, the hat making Hightopps, [of which he was estranged, being the black, rather colorful sheep of the family] could still be found or brought back...
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A BIGGER SPLASH
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I was really happy with both the movies that opened this past weekend Luca Guadagnino “A Bigger Splash” and Jodie Foster’s “Money Monster” (See separate post). A Bigger Splash stars one of the most fascinating creatures in Hollywood, Tilda Swinton who also appeared in Guadagnino’s 2010 foodie film I Am Love (click for T&T post). In A Bigger Splash Swinton plays Marianne Lane a famous female glam rock personality recovering from throat surgery. She not only can’t speak above a whisper, she’s been told to refrain from speaking while her vocal chords heal. What better place to recuperate than on a beautiful Mediterranean Island called…
