Sarah: MOVIE TIME! Elyse: Just starting the movie Carrie: It’s hard to see and hear the movie with this overweight cat sitting on my face with his nose in my ear. Elyse: I’m curious as to why they chose to set the movie in Budapest Redheadedgirl: Because the play it’s based on was. Carrie: It’s based on a play set in Budapest – although I also was surprised they didn’t change it. Elyse: Ah ok Sarah: I had the thought as the credits … Continue reading Smart Bitches Movie Matinee: The Shop Around the Corner →
I guess we are finally in a place to process the financial collapse through art. In the past six months, we’ve had three movies looking at different aspects of it – 99 Homes, The Big Short, and this one, Money Monster. Two of those have been waaaaaaay more successful at it than the other. I mean, this isn’t as on the nose as the other two, but this is a movie about how one company … Continue reading Movie Review: Money Monster →
I hate horror movies. I really do. That last time I willingly watched a horror movie, I saw Paranormal Activity in theaters and slept with the light on for a week. But when I saw The Babadook (an Australian-Canadian psychological horror film) on Netflix, after hearing so many great things about it, I figured I was safe. The Cute Boy™ and one of my roommates were going to watch it with me. We would have … Continue reading Movie Review: The Babadook →
Oh, Houdini and Doyle. How can you hurt me like this? You have so much going for you! How can you be so…boring? Houdini and Doyle is a new show on Fox Network in which Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle solve mysteries whilst bickering over whether or not the supernatural exists (Doyle says yes, Houdini says no). In the pilot, “The Maggie’s Redress,” the pair investigate the murder of a nun who runs one … Continue reading TV Review: Houdini and Doyle →
NB: All the triggers. Seriously, all of them. Yes, even that one. Not kidding. Many of us at this site are Tom Hiddleston fans, and thus many of us are no doubt considering seeing High Rise, a movie in which our dear boy wears nothing but a strategically placed brochure. As it happens, High Rise is available for rent on iTunes ahead of theatrical release on May 13, so I checked it out … Continue reading Movie Review: High Rise →
Marvel’s latest blockbuster, Captain America: Civil War is here and CarrieS, Redheadedgirl and I have thoughts. I also had three hard ciders and a rum and Coke so…. CA:CW is a movie about the consequences of all the other Marvel movies. While chasing down Hydra in Lagos, Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) misjudges her aim and accidentally blows a building up. People, including Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr), are concerned by the civilian casualties that occur … Continue reading Movie Review: Captain America: Civil War →
True story: as I was on my way to the theater, my mom called to say that she had mailed a box that includes a bag of mine she got repaired, a book of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s letters that she picked up, my old Kindle that my dad doesn’t need anymore, and “a surprise.” I love surprises, and asked if it was chocolate, and she said no, it was about as far from chocolate as … Continue reading Movie Review: Mother’s Day →
If you didn’t think that I would be FIRST IN LINE for a movie with the premise of “Key and Peele brave gangsters to rescue a kitten” then you don’t know me at ALL. (The kitten is not hurt and not in any real danger. Everyone who meets this cat wants to love it and protect it, and while he runs through two gunfights, no one, EVER, attempts to hurt the cat. EVER. Hell, a … Continue reading Movie Review: Keanu →
This is the prequel/sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman. It’s one of those things that sounds terrible and you hope that it’ll be hillaribad and instead it’s just a huge fucking mess. Spoilers Abound, so be ye warned. It’s the origin story of The Huntsman (Erik, did we learn his name in the first movie? I don’t remember) and how Freya (Emily Blunt), the sister of Ravenna (the Evil Queen from SWatH, played by Charlize … Continue reading Movie Review: The Huntsman: Winter’s War →
Redheadedgirl: THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD Carrie: I KNOOOOOWWW. Have you seen it before? Redheadedgirl: Of course! I just get reminded EVERY TIME. Time after time! Carrie: I always feel that way too! Every time I like it better and better. Elyse: Okay here we go. Redheadedgirl: OH MY GOD. Gia Carides, who plays Liz Holt in Strictly Ballroom? Was also Nikki in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Amanda: Now that RHG mentioned that Liz is … Continue reading Smart Bitches Movie Matinee: Strictly Ballroom →
We deliberately scheduled March’s Movie Matinee to complement the release of this movie-a sequel 18 years after the events of MBFGW, where we visit the Portokalos family and see what they’ve been up to. We also meet Toula’s daughter, Paris, as she tries to navigate a space for herself within and away from her huge, loud, Greek family. Eighteen years after her wedding, Toula is back working in the diner and taking care of her aging … Continue reading Movie Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 →
