Posts Tagged ‘Emma Thompson’
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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Film Review – Burnt
Burnt lacks anything worth biting into. We have Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper), former wonder chef who wrecked his life with booze and drugs and now three years later is clean and heading to London, desperate to open a new restaurant and this time earning three stars in a travel…
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Film Review – A Walk in the Woods
Living an authentic life has been a goal for writers and artists forever. Shedding the artifice of modernity to connect with the world around us can both inspire and help create perspective. Probably more hiking and camping trips have been inspired by the works of…
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Film Review – The Love Punch
The comedy The Love Punch stars Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan as a divorced couple Kate and Richard. They are forced together to re-coup their pension and their kids’ college funds after Richard’s company is sold out beneath him and foreclosed upon. They go to…
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2014 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks
It’s Oscar time again and it has been a roller coaster of a year with no clear front-runner for best picture and several of the categories ripe for potential upsets. While not as strong a line up of films as last year, there are still…
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Film Review – Saving Mr. Banks
Saving Mr. Banks offers few surprises in its story and execution. Being that it’s a Disney production, and chronicles the making of Mary Poppins (1964), we have a good idea of what we’re in store for. But while some may argue it’s a self-congratulatory exercise…
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