Posts Tagged ‘Meryl Streep’
Episode 52 – What Lies Beneath and Music of the Heart
For this episode, we review a horror film made by a director that’s not known for the genre, What Lies Beneath by Robert Zemeckis. We then review a non-horror film made by a horror director, Music of the Heart by Wes Craven. We also name…
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Film Review – Little Women (2019)
This is how you do it. Film adaptations of classic pieces of literature are so common we all take them for granted. And in the case of some works like this one, it feels like there have been so many versions created at this point…
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Top 15 Films of 2017 – Allen’s Picks
When it comes to making these end of year lists, I usually take it in stride. I never really think about them for too long, since it’s just an exercise in futility. But 2017 was such a strong year at the movies, with good to…
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Film Review – The Post
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the name Steven Spielberg? Any number of answers would work: Indiana Jones, killer sharks, friendly aliens, giant dinosaurs. Spielberg has made a career of making entertaining pictures that have reached a vast range of audiences.…
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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…
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2015 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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Film Review – Into the Woods
Long before Shrek was cramming modern day pop references into classic fairy tales, many years before the TV show Once Upon a Time was blending all of Disney’s properties into a single tale, well before the admittedly brilliant comic book Fables was mashing together classic…
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Film Review – The Giver
Part of buying into a Science Fiction book or movie is the ability to accept the world building as reasonable. Some things – no matter how well written or shown – just make no sense to me. (What do you mean they divide society up…
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