Posts Tagged ‘Felicity Jones’
Film Review – The Aeronauts
The Aeronauts is an unexpected film. The majority of the film is set in London in 1862 and begins right before Amelia Rennes (Felicity Jones) takes off in a giant hot air balloon with burgeoning atmosphere scientist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne). The film has no backstory, to…
READ MOREFilm Review – On the Basis of Sex
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lived an exceptional life. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, New York (as Joan Ruth Bader), Ginsburg studied at Cornell, attended Harvard, and earned her law degree at Columbia. She spent much of her career focused on gender equality and women’s…
READ MOREFilm Review – A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls is billed as a family-friendly film to be enjoyed for the holiday season. However, the film did not open wide in theatres until January 6th, and there is that element of death, anger, and sadness that should be kept in mind before…
READ MOREFilm Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Second Take)
Hey, have you ever sat back and thought: “If the Death Star was such a powerful weapon, why was it so easily destroyed by a couple of blasts down a generator shaft?” Well, lucky for you, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) spends a…
READ MOREFilm Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Second Take)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is Disney’s first foray away from the Star Wars’ Episode films. It is coined as a standalone Star Wars film, but the term is misleading. Rogue One is set timeline-wise after Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and before…
READ MOREFilm Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
“A long, long, long, long time ago…in a galaxy far far away…” The last time we saw our heroes we found out where Luke Skywalker was hiding away, Kylo Ren betrayed his father and a new nemesis is plotting (yet again) to rule the galaxy.…
READ MOREFilm Review – Inferno
“If Dante’s Inferno was less like poetry and more like prophecy” As someone who hasn’t read the book Inferno was based on, I would like to say that this film makes it on my list of top 10 movies to watch this fall. I enjoy…
READ MORE2015 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks
The Academy Awards are here again and unlike most years I am actually ready to move on to the next year. Don’t get me wrong, I will watch and get excited and angry depending on the results but most awards are pretty wrapped up except,…
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