Posts Tagged ‘Amanda Seyfried’
Top 15 Films of 2018 – Allen’s Picks
The beauty of cinema is how it works as a reflection of our society – our hopes, our fears, and our desires. Films are a timestamp of who were, who we are, and what we could possibly be. A thousand years from now, people can…
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Film Review – Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
I’ll start off this review with something positive. Walking out of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) – the aptly titled sequel to the musical Mamma Mia! (2008) – I saw plenty of people with smiles on their faces. They had a bounce to…
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Film Review – First Reformed
The slow zoom into the First Reformed Church with “old-school” opening credits gracing the screen with an iconic scrolling type-face presents a pleasing introduction to writer and director Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. We meet an introverted, middle-aged pastor, Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke), tasked with leading…
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Film Review – Gringo
If you have seen the trailers for Gringo, the cast is appealing, and the kidnap caper plot looks entertaining. The use of a marijuana drug in the plot may lead you to think this is a stoner comedy, but that is far from correct. The drug is…
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Film Review – Ted 2
I don’t know what to make of Seth MacFarlane. Here’s a guy with boyish good looks, who has a talent as a voice actor and comedian, and who clearly has a fondness for old time Hollywood musicals, yet he seems almost unable to keep his…
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Film Review – While We’re Young
Noah Baumbach‘s films are often alleged to be at least partially autobiographical which, for anyone who has seen his fantastic The Squid and the Whale, is a disturbing notion indeed. Unflinching in its portrayal of a deteriorated family, Squid led the way to his equally…
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Interview – Ryan Serhant – While We’re Young
Sarah interviews actor Ryan Serhant from the dramedy While We’re Young.
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Film Review – Lovelace
Linda Lovelace starred in perhaps the biggest porn movie ever, Deep Throat. The details of her life and what happened to her on- and off-set are less known, and while Lovelace wants to be an expose on these truths, it never knows how to make…
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