Posts Tagged ‘Helena Bonham Carter’
Film Review – Enola Holmes 3
The Enola Holmes films might be the most consistently decent series in recent memory. That might sound like a backhanded compliment, but given the times we live in, a movie simply being “Ok” is not always a guarantee. While not groundbreaking in any sense of the word,…
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Film Review – The House
The House (2022) is a truly unique and bizarre viewing experience. Featuring beautifully tactile stop motion animation, the film is an anthology of three separate stories all taking place at different points in time, starring different animal life forms, and all centered around one single house.…
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Film 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…
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Film Review – Alice Through the Looking Glass
Therapist: So Allen, what brings you to my office? Allen: I need help, doc. Therapist: What seems to be the problem? Allen: I just saw a terrible movie. T: What movie was that? A: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) T: Oh yes, I think…
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Film Review – Cinderella
At first glance, one may think that Kenneth Branagh directing the latest version of Cinderella (2015) would be something of a headscratcher. In hindsight, he was the perfect choice to handle this material. Trained by Shakespearean theater, Branagh has been endowed with the type of…
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Film Review – The Lone Ranger
Here is one of those instances where I wish I could say a film turned out to be a pleasant surprise, but to do so would make me a liar. On the surface, Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger has all the ingredients of a summer…
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Film Review – Les Misérables
The last time we saw director Tom Hooper, he was accepting an Oscar for his work on The King’s Speech (2010). It would go without saying that his next project would come with some anticipation. Boy, did he pick an ambitious one with Les Misérables,…
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Film Review – Dark Shadows
I walked into Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows never having seen the television show that it was based off of. Sometimes, going into a movie completely cold can be an advantage; when you have no expectations, the chances of you liking it can increase substantially. Unfortunately,…
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