Posts Tagged ‘Kevin Kline’
Episode 151 – A Haunting in Venice
For this week’s podcast, we review Kenneth Branagh‘s third Agatha Christie adaptation, A Haunting in Venice. We also discuss the WGA‘s gains now that the writer’s strike has come to an end, as well as a few other movie news items. For our streaming homework,…
READ MORE
Film Review – Beauty and the Beast (2017) (Second Take)
“Delightfully nostalgic and artfully designed” From 101 Dalmatians (1996) to Alice in Wonderland (2010) to The Jungle Book (2016) comes Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of one of their classic and most loved animated films. Beauty and the Beast was one of my favorite films growing…
READ MORE
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…
READ MORE
Film Review – Ricki and the Flash
Thank you, Jonathan Demme, for making Tom Petty’s “American Girl” a harbinger of doom for the woman who sings it in one of his movies. In Ricki and the Flash, that doom comes with the realization that as a woman, you can dream of a…
READ MORE
Film Review – My Old Lady
Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady (2014) plays a trick on its audience. Posters and advertisements would have us believe that this is another sweet, fluffy European comedy in the same vein as Quartet (2012) or this year’s The Hundred-Foot Journey. But Horovitz (who wrote and…
READ MORE
DIFF Film Review – The Last of Robin Hood
The Last of Robin Hood is based on legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn’s (Kevin Kline) last few years of life and his relationship with actress/dancer Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning). Beverly was fifteen when Errol met her and wooed her into becoming is girlfriend. Errol was in…
READ MORE
Film Review – Last Vegas
When the first trailer for Last Vegas began making the internet rounds, there was nary a comment section that didn’t immediately call it out as being “The Hangover for old people!” An understandable assessment given the locale, but, where the Hangover series reveled in raunchiness,…
READ MORE
DVD Rundown 7-23-2013 – Video Podcast #268
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for July 23rd, 2013. In this episode they discuss Trance, Graceland, Kiss of the Damned and The Ice Storm.
READ MORE