Posts Tagged ‘Cate Blanchett’
Film Review – Where’d You Go, Bernadette
I don’t know if Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019) is one of the worst films of the year, but it is definitely one of the most disappointing. It’s adapted by Maria Semple’s bestselling novel, directed and cowritten by Richard Linklater – creator of Slacker (1990)…
READ MOREFilm Review – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The How to Train Your Dragon series is not only one of the best animated series of the new century, but one of the best film franchises period. The journey of the young Viking named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his friend – the Night Fury…
READ MOREFilm Review – The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The title of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) could also work as its central premise. It definitely features a house, a house that most certainly has a clock in its walls. You can’t get more straightforward than that. Written by Erick…
READ MOREFilm Review – Ocean’s 8
The biggest flaw of Ocean’s 8 (2018) is the title. Not only is it numerically confused as a sequel to the Ocean’s trilogy (consisting of Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, and Ocean’s Thirteen), but it also has to carry the burden of being yet another spin off of…
READ MOREFilm Review – Thor: Ragnarok
Hey, look! A good Thor movie! Out of all the central characters featured so far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor has remained a blank slate. Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013) are two of the more forgettable entries into the MCU, mostly…
READ MOREFilm Review – Knight of Cups
I dread the day Terrence Malick stops making films. He is one of a kind, an original voice. No one makes movies the same way he does, and when he decides to call it quits he will take away a view of the world entirely…
READ MORETop 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
READ MOREFilm Review – Carol
When two women meet and fall in love in New York in the late 1940s, societal deviance becomes a search for safety in director Todd Hayne‘s (Safe, Mildred Pierce) latest movie Carol. Based on the novel The Price of Salt and starring Cate Blanchett and…
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