-
AD ASTRA
AD ASTRA otherwise known as “Brad Pitt in Space”, feels as if Pitt looked at his body of work and thought Damon, Clooney, McConaughey and Hanks all have space movies under their belts. If I’m gonna leave a legacy, I’ve got to get in on the astronaut game and check that off my list; and this is why we have AD ASTRA (the title is Latin for “to the stars”). The film is set in the near future and centers around the interplanetary and emotional journey of astronaut Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) who has followed in the footsteps of his famous astronaut father Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) who…
-
X-Men Dark Phoenix
X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX is meant to be the ENDGAME for Fox’s X-MEN franchise, as Disney/Marvel are poised to takeover. And what’s that gonna consist of? I just can’t stand the thought of another reboot. Please, just start over with new X-Men. We’re good with the 2 sets of X-Men core characters – young and mature, and up until this movie, they pretty much dovetailed nicely so that you didn’t have a problem with the stories or casting of the 2nd set of movies (First Class, Days of Future Past, Apocalypse) negating the stories of the 1st set of Movies (X-men, X-Men United and X-men Last Stand) but here’s where things…
-
Movie Blog Post: LOGAN
Tinsel & Tine Focus: EVERYTHING GREAT ABOUT LOGAN BEST WOLVERINE MOVIE By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor After the early press screening of LOGAN, I once again joined some of The Black Tribbles in an episode of “SPOILED TRIBBLES” where for a change, everyone was in agreement, Logan, directed by James Mangold, works on every level and in terms of X-men movies, for me, comes in 3rd behind X-men: Days of Future Past and X-Men:First Class, don’t know why I never did a post on First Class, but here’s a link to my 2013 The Wolverine. Listen to the Podcast below for our exuberant chatter after seeing “Logan”, but remember it’s…
-
Movie Blog Post: MORGAN
A Sci-Fi Version of And Then There Were None by Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay It’s gotta be tough to follow in your father’s footsteps when he wears big shoes the likes of “Alien” and “Blade Runner”, but it looks like Luke Scott, son of Ridley Scott is off to a good start with room to grow a size or two. MORGAN, written by Seth W. Owen, has a sci fi premise involving corporate funding of an experimental project birthing humanoid creatures with artificial DNA. The first prototype of this version to make it longer than a few hours is Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy). The team who brought Morgan…
-
Movie Blog Post: FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEURFLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Not dissimilar to her role as Julia Child in Julie & Julia (click for T&T post) the magnificent Meryl Streep straps on the pounds and falsetto voice to play another eccentric matron with a devoted husband. An once again, I loved it! There’s just no denying the fact that Streep is every bit as good as the credit she’s always given. Streep in the eponymous role of Florence Foster Jenkins opens the film as a very full bodied angel of inspiration being hoisted above a piano on ropes held by straining stage hands. She’s performing for an…
