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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...
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Connor’s Corner: WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS
The heart of this film, though, doesn’t lie in the CGI or even the music and sounds Cole creates and collects. While the graphics showcase a certain level of multimedia I haven’t seen in mainstream film and the music is certainly the guiding force of the plot
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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Don’t Ask Him to Sing for His Supper By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor This is the winter of Llewyn Davis’ (Oscar Isaac) discontent. He’s got no money, no coat, no place to live and no one really likes him much. He’s got some charm and sex appeal, he can sing and play guitar, but he’s one of these people who speaks first and thinks later and has little regard for the consequences of his actions, until after his words and/or actions make trouble for him. Still, he’s not nearly as bad as Jean (Carey Mulligan) the self-righteous, singing girlfriend of a friend (Justin Timberlake) tells him he is. With Inside…
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Decadence: THE BLING RING
Why can't people quit while they're ahead? The most important thing I've learned from watching heist type movies is that people who steal, meet their doom by doing one more job, getting greedy, cocky or by not being satisfied with having gotten away with it once or twice!
