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Movies Extravaganza 22: FLY ME TO THE MOON, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, KINDS OF KINDNESS, THE BIKERIDERS, TUESDAY, BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE
#MiniMovieReviews Extravaganza 22 - fun, engaging, personal, bite size reviews for Fly Me To The Moon, A Quiet Place: Day One, Kinds of Kindness, The Bikeriders, Tuesday, Bad Boys: Ride
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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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Writer/Director Maris Curran in Philly: FIVE NIGHTS IN MAINE
Sherwin arrives at Lucinda's large farmhouse and is met by her nurse, Ann (Rosie Perez). He's told Lucinda isn't feeling well and will see him at dinner, which is a palpably uncomfortable meal. There's no anger or blatant hostility, but here's two people with only one thing in common, they loved the same person, a person who they're both still in the throes of grief over, yet grieving very differently...
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A Revlock Review: THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Tarantino’s greatest strength remains his dialogue. Although the historical setting means no pithy dissections of Madonna or McDonald’s, it’s impressive how he can muster so much tension from ruminative, ornate conversations. His dialogue possesses a pleasing deliberateness that harkens back to the golden age of cinema and reveals by contrast the absence of wit in most modern films...
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Wish I had loved it: WISH I WAS HERE
All of these themes are great to explore in an Indie-ish/dram-edy, and it is an enjoyable movie, the issue being it's overly earnest and heavy handed in its sentimentality. For instance, when Grace cuts off all her hair and Aidan takes his daughter to get a wig, he says, "You can pick out any wig in the store as long as it's as unique and amazing as you"...
