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Chaos Walking
Chaos Walkin is a young adult science fiction series written by American-British novelist Patrick Ness based on the best-selling novel “The Knife of Never Letting Go”. It is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. SYNOPSIS: In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by “the Noise” – a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola’s life is threatened – and…
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Teen Spirit
Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview TEEN SPIRIT writer/dir Max Minghella starring Elle Fanning seems to have already left the theaters, but I recommend finding it when it streams. It’s set in a small rural village somewhere in Eastern Europe. Fanning plays a quiet young girl without many prospects for an exciting life, when an American Idol type show comes through her town, and as a contestant, takes her on a journey into the music biz. I think HER SMELL (Elisabeth Moss) & VOX LUX (Natalie Portman) having come out in recent months, didn’t leave space for TEEN SPIRIT; that and the title, people associate Teen Spirit with Kurt Cobain, and this…
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Lionsgate’s: REMEMORY
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I was sent another screener by Lionsgate, this time for a Sci-Fi Mystery called Rememory starring Peter Dinklage, best known as Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones. Writer/director Mark Palansky (co-writer Michael Vukadinovich) wrote this movie with Dinklage in mind, having nothing to do with his size, other than the size of his talent – discovered after working together on Palansky’s first movie Penelope (2006) which also starred Christina Ricci, James McAvoy & Reese Witherspoon. I’m not familiar with this movie at all, but it’s BTT (before Tinsel & Tine) so I wasn’t as plugged in. In Rememory Dinklage just plays a loner type guy…
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Lionsgate’s: UNLOCKED
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Every so often I am sent a screener code by a studio and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing a film that will have a limited release. I love this, of course, because it makes me feel like a real insider. This time it was Lionsgate who emailed me about a Spy thriller called UNLOCKED. It stars Noomi Rapace (Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series) John Malkovich, Michael Douglas, Orlando Bloom and Toni Collette (who looks just like Annie Lennox in this movie). At first I didn’t understand the title until I watched an interview with Rapace, who plays Alice…
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Movie Blog Post: THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
The film is best in the flashbacks scenes of their youth. I like young Tony and his schoolmates, the academic atmosphere, and wish there were more scenes with Emily Mortimer; the movie would have been much richer if mainly set in the past and then bring us to present day near the end to see where the fallout left the characters 50 years later...
