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Movie Blog Post: THE HERO
Laura Prepon (That’s 70’s Show and Orange is the New Black) plays Lee Hayden’s love interest. You’d think that would be icky, with the age difference, instead you really get the sense that they’re responding as two people who recognize a bit of themselves in the other...
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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…
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Will You Stop Eating Cupcakes! – THIS IS 40
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor If I had realized the characters in Judd Apatow’s This Is 40, were the same couple from Knocked Up, I would not have gone to see this movie. I hated Alison’s (Katherine Heigl’s) annoying, abrasive, argumentative sister and brother-in-law. My amnesia is not surprising considering Knocked Up is on my list of “never need to see again movies” – just did not see the funny. I did however, really like the trailer for This Is 40, and not only did the trailer do the movie justice – for a change, there are heaps more funny scenes and lines than the trailer shows! Most importantly, Debbie…
