Posts Tagged ‘Saoirse Ronan’
Film Review – Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a film about beginnings and endings within a young Irish immigrant’s life, and her struggle to experience it all, to be in and of everything she does rather than let things happen or follow the accepted order of events for a woman of…
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Film Review – Violet & Daisy
A lot of films are built on just a clever premise; sometimes a great story is written around it, sometimes it never really develops into anything more. Violet & Daisy, the feature debut from director Geoffrey Fletcher, exists somewhere between the two extremes as it…
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Film Review – The Host
I’m torn. I don’t know if Andrew Niccol’s The Host is one of the worst movies of the year, or one of the best. It is bad—hilariously bad. The writing is stilted, the acting flat, and the plotting damn near incomprehensible. Stephenie Meyer, best known…
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Episode 213 – Peter Jackson
In honor of the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Spencer and Greg discuss Peter Jackson.
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Film Review – Hanna
Hanna (2011) is the most peculiar of action films, if you would call it an “action film.” Sure, it’s advertised as an action-thriller, and yes there are a number of fight scenes and chases in it, but for some odd reason, I wouldn’t necessarily classify…
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Film Review – The Way Back
Peter Weir’s latest film, The Way Back (2010), is an endurance test for both the characters in the film and for the audience watching it, and I mean that as a compliment. Throughout the film’s one hundred and thirty three minute time span, we watch…
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