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Sisters in the Struggle: SUFFRAGETTE, FREEHELD, THE KEEPING ROOM
Discussion of Three Female Driven Movies Screened Back to Back – “Suffragette”, “Freeheld” and “The Keeping Room” By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay SUFFRAGETTE – which takes place in England (1920’s) during the height of the feminist movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst’s (Meryl Streep) Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) which was founded in 1897, but after years of peaceful methods of trying to gain women the right to vote without success, the WSPU began practicing militant, radical and rebellious methods to call attention to their cause. Most of the characters in the film are composites of Suffragette’s of the time representing both upper class and working class…
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A Revlock Review: AMERICAN SNIPER
By Tinsel & Tine Blog Contributor MIKHAIL REVLOCK A review of American Sniper is incomplete without a discussion of Bradley Cooper’s transformation. Though the physicality of the change is the most striking (Cooper gained forty pounds for the role, and his face seems to have borne the brunt of the weight), it is his altered personality that ultimately leaves the deepest impression. The high-strung motor mouth of recent Cooper turns is gone, replaced by a plodding, vacant-eyed husk. He wears the understated persona well, delivering a tour de force in a career riddled with mainstream catering gigs. The film itself is relatively unexceptional. Directed by Clint Eastwood with workmanlike deliberation…
