Posts Tagged ‘Emma Thompson’
Episode 72 – Cruella and A Quiet Place 2
For this episode of the podcast, we review Disney‘s new live-action prequel, Cruella, and the creature feature sequel, A Quiet Place 2. We also discuss Bo Burnham‘s Netflix comedy special Inside. At the end of the pod, we take a look back at the classic…
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Film Review – Cruella
What a strange decision it was to make an origin story about Cruella de Vil. Her first onscreen appearance was in Disney’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), in which she (voiced by Betty Lou Gerson) was a chain smoking, diabolical villain who wanted to murder and…
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Film Review – Dolittle (2020)
Dolittle (2020) is the kind of middle-of-the-road film that is frustrating to write about. On one hand, it’s not remarkable enough to jump over the moon and sing its praises. On the other, it’s just competent enough to provide some level of entertainment. It’s the…
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Film Review – Little Women (2019)
This is how you do it. Film adaptations of classic pieces of literature are so common we all take them for granted. And in the case of some works like this one, it feels like there have been so many versions created at this point…
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Film Review – Men in Black: International
Men in Black: International (2019) is the kind of big budget undertaking that’s completely manufactured for the purpose of garnering a financial gain. It plays things right down the middle, where it doesn’t take any risks, it unfolds in a completely safe and uninteresting way,…
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Film Review – Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Disney is on a live action(ish) remake kick of their classic animated films. Cinderella, The Jungle Book, and now Beauty and the Beast. The original is a Disney classic, which opened in theatres in 1991, and garnered two Academy Awards and was nominated for two…
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Film Review – Bridget Jones’s Baby
Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too?! Well, here we go again! Bridget Jones is back to steal our hearts in Bridget Jones’s Baby. How the hell does she do that?! With Renée Zellweger’s semi-believable English accent and the quirky way…
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Film Review – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I love Jane Austen. I will see every single television and film adaptation of her books the rest of my life, without question. Emma Thompson’s Sense & Sensibility and Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice are the current favorites. When you hear someone has a taken…
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