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Movie Blog Post: COLLATERAL BEAUTY
Out of my heart, one treach’rous winter’s day, I locked young Love and threw the key away. Grief, wandering widely, found the key, And hastened with it, straightway, back to me, With Love beside him. He unlocked the door And bade Love enter with him there and stay. And so the twain abide for evermore. “Love And Grief” – Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar Death & Departure: A Holiday Message By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor of Tinsel & Tine What’s with all the death and dealing with the process of grief stuff this holiday season? David E. Talbert’s Almost Christmas (click for T&T post) deals with a family trying…
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Did They Have to Eat The Black Guy?: IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
Moby Dick Inspired Survivalist Tale with Director Ron Howard Live Twitter Interview Embeds By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay “Thar she blows” now has a more visual meaning for me after seeing Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment’s IN THE HEART OF THE SEA. The movie is based not on Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” as much as it’s based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s, non fiction book of the same name. Philbrick is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket and the story of the sinking of the 19th century shipping vessel, The Essex, which is a big part of Nantucket’s whaling history. What I really love about most Ron Howard/Brian…
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Mikhail & Le Anne Talk: JUPITER ASCENDING
Dual Review on Andy & Lana Wachowski’s JUPITER ASCENDING By Tinsel & Tine Blog Contributor Mikhail Revlock & Editor Le Anne Lindsay Tinsel & Tine Readers, It’s Mikhail kicking off my joint review of Jupiter Ascending with Le Anne. We caught a preview screening of the Wachowski’s latest offering at the Rave in University City, and I think it’s fair to say we were both underwhelmed by this space opera thing. As this unclassifiable epic crawled to a dismal “have your cake and eat it” finish, I was reminded time and again of “Matrix” sequels and “Star Wars” prequels: dull blockbusters bursting at the seams with elaborate set pieces and…
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American Sniper Interview with Actor: BEN REED
Every year there’s at least one movie at the Oscars which I intentionally miss because it just doesn’t appeal to me; normally, it’s because the movie deals with war, like Glory, Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker or Zero Dark Thirty. This year that movie is American Sniper. That being said, next thing you know, I’m being asked if I’d like to talk to one of the actors from the movie for Tinsel & Tine? Yes! It’s an Oscar nominated movie directed by Clint Eastwood, starring and produced by Bradley Cooper! So, despite my aversion to war movies, I set about preparing to interview Ben Reed, who plays Chris…
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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…
