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Guest Blogger Tunisia Jolyn: FENCES
I’m so happy that my new friend and fellow Philly blogger Tunisia Jolyn of self-entitled tunisiajolyn.com agreed to guest post for me and express her thoughts so beautifully on Denzel Washington’s directorial debut FENCES… Denzel Washington Revives a Timeless Classic to New Heights in His Latest Film, Fences By Tunisia Jolyn Remember when your parents messed up and you were mad at them for showing their humanity because you viewed them as superhuman? Through the eyes of young children, parents are seen as godly and that makes sense considering they are the physical manifestation of a miraculous creation – their kids. However, we usually grow up and recognize that…
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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 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…
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Movie Blog Post: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
A STORY OF LOVE & BETRAYALNOCTURNAL ANIMALS by Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Amy Adams is having a good month, last we talked about her movie Arrival (click for T&T post) but she’s also the central character in designer/filmmaker Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals. Ford said it took him 7 years to get another film to the screen after 2009’s critically acclaimed A Single Man (click for T&T post) starring Colin Firth, because he had a child, built 100 stores and had a hard time finding material he could completely control. Nocturnal Animals is based on a novel by Austin Wright called “Tony and Susan”, but Ford admits to…
