And finally checked out The Light Between Oceans, a new movie at the theaters starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, and Rachel Weisz. I had no idea what this movie was going in but had the impression that maybe it had … Continue reading
Also checked out the romantic movie Me Before You, starring Amelia Clarke of Game of Thrones fame – she brings her natural brunette hair, her killer smile, and her eyebrow mastery to a role so far removed from Danaerys Targaryen, … Continue reading
Checked out Sing Street, the latest movie from the Irish filmmaker who made the movies Once (which won best song for Falling Slowly a few Oscars ago) and Begin Again (a perfectly charming movie about music too). Sing Street is … Continue reading
Also checked out A Hologram for the King, the adaptation of the book by David Eggers (which I have not read). This is a new Tom Hanks movie about a broken, lost salesman who travels to Saudi Arabia to sell … Continue reading
Watched the academy award nominated film Brooklyn. This is about a young Irish woman who moves from Ireland to Brooklyn to find a better life with more opportunity. Set in 1952, this is a sweet, gentle, earnest, adorable, lovely, and … Continue reading
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is the new movie based on the book based on that other book, you know the one (hint: Sense and Sensibility – har!). Before I talk about what I thought of the movie, I want … Continue reading
Watched Z for Zachariah on streaming last night (it is also in very limited theatrical release). This is a movie about a girl alone in a valley that miraculously survives a nuclear war. Then a stranger shows up in a … Continue reading
Paper Towns is the new movie based on the John Green novel of the same name (who also wrote The Fault In Our Stars). It’s a teen road trip caper comedy drama… and it’s pretty good but not entirely engaging … Continue reading
Checked out the new romance / magical realism flick The Age of Adeline (which released one week before it’s sequel Age of Ultron!) Adeline is about a young lady (played by the lovely Blake Lively) who, in the 1920s, gets … Continue reading
The new film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is certainly a curios thing. It’s an American/Iranian black and white vampire romance (in Farsi subtitled in English) set in a dying industrial city in maybe-Iran? Maybe not? The city … Continue reading