Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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Commentary – BIG MIRACLE
by Le Anne Lindsay – originally written for CINEDELPHIA I truly enjoyed this movie! Yes, it’s my aim to accentuate the positive in all my film write ups, but this is not me trying to be upbeat. I really would like to see Big Miracle do well because it works. Not because of the whole “save the whales” thing. I am not an animal activist and I don’t give to Greenpeace. I respect all God’s creatures, cause they’re here and we’re here sharing the same space; but otherwise I don’t give em much thought. In fact, I don’t remember anything about this whole story going viral in 1988; well, back…
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Commentary – The Adventures of Tintin
I took my normally attentive 5 year-old niece and 9 year-old nephew to see this animated (performance motion caption) highly anticipated movie, and I don't know which one of us was more restless. I was so detached that when Eva said she needed to use the restroom, I actually welcomed the interruption.
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Commentary – RED TAILS
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor It should have been my priority to get this commentary on Red Tails up much sooner – considering it took George Lucas 20 years to get this film made, with a major obstacle being, Hollywood not wanting to spend big bucks on a movie featuring a black cast. Plus, when I see a preview screening, I’d prefer to get my post up by opening weekend. Well, you know the old cliche – better late than never. The Red Tails preview screening was sponsored by The Ben Franklin Global Forum, The Union League of Philadelphia and The Tuskegee Airman Greater Philadelphia Chapter. The pre-screening presentation was…
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HAYWIRE (Steven Soderbergh)
by Le Anne Lindsay I read that Steven Soderbergh was looking to make a more beautiful, stylistic action film in the vein of the classic James Bond film From Russia With Love or the Michael Caine thriller Funeral in Berlin when he set about to make Haywire. His other inspiration was professional mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano: Soderbergh was flipping between channels late one night and stumbled onto one of Carano’s fights. “I see Gina coming out. She’s got the cornrows; she’s got the warrior affect. I thought, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.’ She destroyed this woman in a cage, and I just hadn’t seen anything like this before,” he said.…
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Commentary – JOYFUL NOISE
Joyful Noise stars Queen Latifah as Vi Rose, a strong, upstanding, church-going, choir singing mother of two. Her beautiful daughter Olivia (Keke Palmer of Akeelah and the Bee)is 16 and although she still enjoys singing in the church choir, she's also at that age where blind parental obedience has gone out the stained glass window.
