Posts Tagged ‘Reese Witherspoon’
Film Review – A Wrinkle in Time
What A Wrinkle in Time (2018) gets right is understanding the intelligence, strength, and resiliency of children. They are far keener to the world around them as some would suspect, and aware of the circumstances they are placed into. Kids are often neglected as too…
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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 – Wild
Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) is preparing to go on a 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in Wild. We are not told why, but sense that this is something she thinks she needs to do even though she cannot say why. As she starts out, she…
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Film Review – Inherent Vice
And so it comes to pass that with hippies, drugs and secret societies wrapped in conspiracies of world madness, writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted one of the wildest and most important neo-noir films of the new millenia.
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Film Review – The Good Lie
I was nervous before I saw The Good Lie (2014). Trailers and advertisements had me thinking this was yet another film where a group of helpless minorities/people of color are “saved” by a heroic protagonist – who also happens to be white. This has been…
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Episode 253 – Tobey Maguire
In honor of the release of The Great Gatsby, Spencer and Greg discuss Tobey Maguire.
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Film Review – Mud
I don’t know if Matthew McConaughey’s agent took an especially artistic blow to the head or if one too many TBS airings of Failure To Launch set him down this new path, but if you’re reading this, sir, I’d like to buy you a Coke.…
READ MOREDialogue Review – How Do You Know
Brandi Sperry: How Do You Know, the latest film from writer/director James L. Brooks, is a romantic comedy with an A-list cast that seeks to explore the question: when you are faced with a big choice, how do you know you are making the right…
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