Posts Tagged ‘Lily Collins’
Film Review – Windfall
We happen upon a man (Jason Segel) wandering amongst a grove of orange trees. He picks a few off and helps himself to a bite. The man then makes his way to a beautiful desert home with a long pool, gardens, and a gorgeous view…
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Film Review – Mank
It’s one thing to make a movie about a movie, it’s a whole other thing to make a movie about Citizen Kane (1941). It’s one of the most written about, analyzed, and debated films ever. Many consider it “The Greatest Film Ever Made,” and is often…
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Film Review – Tolkien
From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, the lasting influence of fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien is evident. Most of the tropes we’ve come to associate with high fantasy were explored first in his Lord of the Rings and Hobbit novels that were originally published from…
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DIFF Film Review – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
Joe Berlinger is widely known as an acclaimed film documentary producer and director with credits like The Paradise Lost trilogy, Iconoclasts, and Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger. Berlinger recently focused his work on the serial killer Ted Bundy. He produced and…
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Film Review – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
In the quest for the latest, greatest female-driven-based-on-a-young-adult-novel franchise, Cassandra Clare’s book City of Bones, the first in her Mortal Instruments series, takes its turn in the theaters. (Thus the name of the movie, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.) After the success of Twilight…
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Film Review – Mirror Mirror
A confession: I’ve sat at my computer for some time now trying to think of how to start my review of Tarsem Singh’s latest film, Mirror Mirror (2012), and…I’ve got nothing. That’s a bit revealing about what kind of impression this new twist on the…
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