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Movie Blog Post: THE SHACK
... but it felt like the screening was just for me, and more importantly, it felt like God, called Papa in the book/movie, came to meet me where "I live"...
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Philly Interview: DAMIEN CHAZELLE – LA LA LAND
By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Damien Chazelle, the writer/director of Whiplash, and his collaborative partner, composer Justin Hurwitz have created a beguiling, unapologetically romantic homage to classic movie musicals in LA LA LAND (opening film of the 25th Philadelphia Film Festival – click for T&T coverage). The opening scene, a single continuous shot shows a traffic jam in L.A., where all of the drivers emerge from their vehicles and break into song and dance. The film shouts to the audience that this is a throwback to old-school Hollywood musicals, thus, resulting in the audience understanding to view the film with a suspension of disbelief from the beginning.…
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Movie Blog Post: NOW YOU SEE ME 2
It’s a year later and three of the Four Horsemen are still fugitives - Magician (J Daniel Atlas /Jesse Eisenberg), Mentalist (Merritt McKinney/Woody Harrelson) sleight-of-hander (Jack Wilder/Dave Franco) Isla Fisher was pregnant at the time of filming and declined to reprise her role...
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ALLEGIANT (3 of 3 Franchise) – Divergent Series Quick Breakdown
By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay I like the Divergent Series/Franchise about as much as I like the Hunger Games Series/Franchise which is basically, They aite. It’s the strong leads – Jennifer Lawrence and Shailene Woodley which give each movie juice, along with the production designs. I haven’t read the young adult novels by Suzanne Collins or Veronica Roth, but I’m almost certain the books would give me more of what I’m craving with these stories, which is story, heart, more than just a premise. I am a sci-fi fan, not a geek, or an authority, but dystopian futures and high tech gadgetry works for me, so I’m…
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TRANSCENDENCE – Not Quite
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Warning, this review has slight spoilers It’s nice to see a movie where Johnny Depp looks like Johnny Depp, or at least like a real person for a change. I read an interview where Depp says he doesn’t like the way he looks, which is why he hides behind elaborate characters. What kind of dysmorphic nonsense is that! In Transcendence, Depp plays Dr. Will Castor, a leading authority on Artificial Intelligence, with a scholarly, science-geek kinda sexy going on. Of course we don’t get to enjoy Depp in the flesh for long, as he’s soon targeted with radiation poisoning and begins to look ghastly. By…
