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Movies Extravaganza 15: OPPENHEIMER, BARBIE, INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY, ASTEROID CITY, EARTH MAMA, TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL …
#MiniMovieReviews Extravaganza 15 - fun, engaging, personal, bite size reviews for Oppenheimer, Barbie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Asteroid City, Earth Mama Stuff I saw at Tribeca Film Festival...
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Movie Blog Post: MISTRESS AMERICA
Noah Baumbach’s Second film in 2015 Mistress America 30’s Too Soon For Desperation, Or Is It? By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Ok, so I haven’t watched “Margot at the Wedding” or the “Squid and the Whale”, since I said I would, after declaring Noah Baumbach one of my favorite writer/directors based on my enjoyment of “Greenberg”, “Frances Ha” and “While We’re Young”. Believe it or not, I don’t watch very many movies at home, but those films are next on my queue. (Post Update 12.23.17: I’ve watched both movies in the last 2 years and can now definitively say, Noah Baumbach is my favorite white, male director).…
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Here’s a Taste of: FRANCES HA
I walked into this film distracted, I was worried I’d just spent too much on lunch, (although an enjoyable one at Pizzeria Stella (post to come) and by the fact that I was supposed to meet up with someone in the lobby before the film about other Tinsel & Tine business, but realized my last text to him didn’t go thru, right as my phone battery was going into the red. The movie’s starting, but I have to find a place to charge my phone and hope no one steals it from the back of the theater. Normally, such circumstances would have me somewhat detached from what I’m watching, instead…
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Commentary – No Strings Attached
Guess what? No Strings Attached, for the most part, actually works! Romantic Comedies, I feel are the trickiest of all genres. It’s an unknown quotient of ingredients needed to make a good cocktail of two people falling in love, amidst a contrived plot. You often end up with something too sweet, or too flat, too light or too dark, or just unpalatable. I felt that James L Brook’s How Do You Know had some good ingredients, but No Strings Attached, directed by Ivan Reitman, does a better job of mixing it all together. So in keeping with my rom/com cocktail metaphor, the movie would rate 3 out of 5 cherries…
