I know. I KNOW. A movie about the financial crisis and the crash of 2008 and the people who bet against the housing market (and won BIG) doesn’t sound that good. Or entertaining. Or interesting. Throw in the fact that it was directed by the dude that made Anchorman and Talledega Nights and you have yourself a potential hot ass mess. But it had a few things going for it. It’s based on the book by … Continue reading Movie Review: The Big Short →
I’m going to tell you straight up that this has an happy ending. This is not a given in a love story about two women in 1952, even in such a cosmopolitan locale as New York City, so I’m telling you now: there is a happy ending and neither woman ends up dead. I was worried about that. I know I’m not the only one. This is a beautiful movie about a young woman exploring … Continue reading Movie Review: Carol →
32 years since the premiere of Return of the Jedi, and 10 years after the premiere of Revenge of the Sith, we have the 7th Episode of the Star Wars Saga. Carrie and I both saw it opening night, and we report back to you, our beloved Bitchery. RHG: Opening night is the best night to see an event movie like this. Y/y? Carries: Re: opening night: Yes, absolutely, this is a great opening night … Continue reading Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens →
This was such a sweet little movie, y’all. It’s a romance on paper, but it’s really a meditation on immigration, homesickness, and what does “home” mean. Eilis Lacey is a young woman in 1950s Ireland, with no job and no real prospects. Her sister asks an Irish priest in New York to sponsor her immigration to America. She leaves her sister and mother behind, and moves into a boarding house, finds a job in a … Continue reading Movie Review: Brooklyn →
The Good Dinosaur has a lot of things going for it. It’s gorgeous – really, some of the animation took my breath away. It’s not a prequel, a spin-off, a sequel, or based on a pre-existing toy franchise. It tells a pretty archetypal story (two lost souls help each other survive while learning heart-warming lessons) in a new way. But it does have some really odd stuff happening in terms of tone and that makes … Continue reading Movie Review: The Good Dinosaur →
This is the year of the Message Movie. The Martian stressed the importance of science. Spectre took the concern of government surveillance to the ad absurdium conclusion (Christoph Waltz is watching you sleep!). Suffragette showed us the lengths some women felt forced to go to in order to get the rest of us the right to vote. The Walk reminded us what the World Trade Center had been. What Spotlight does, besides talking about the … Continue reading Movie Review: Spotlight →
RHG and I both made a point of seeing the 24th Bond installment on opening weekend because Fuck Yeah Daniel Craig. We both had some mixed feelings about the movie. Spectre ties together the previous three movies in this reboot of Bond, bringing together all the loose ends (some of which weren’t actually loose but were pried from the walls by director Sam Mendes) for one huge black moment involving Bond and his heretofore unseen … Continue reading Movie Review: Spectre →
It boggles my mind that it’s been less than 100 years since we’ve had women’s suffrage in the US and the UK. Less than 100 years, and even after that, women were still expected to vote as their husbands decided (My grandmother once voted for Goldwater because, “Well, that’s who my dad would have voted for… I don’t LIKE him, but….” My mother is still just agog at this, and that election was over 50 … Continue reading Movie Review: Suffragette →
Redheadedgirl and Amanda saw Crimson Peak, as did I (but on the other side of the country). For RHG and I, Crimson Peak is pure crack. It has gothic romance. It has stunning costumes. It has my imaginary movie star boyfriend, Tom Hiddelston, making puppy eyes at everything that moves, and Jessica Chastain looking daggers at everyone and it’s basically everything we love in life. It’s hard to describe the plot without getting into spoilers, … Continue reading Movie Review: Crimson Peak →
I fully admit that when the first teaser for this movie hit theaters back in JANUARY (god we have been advertising this movie for a LONG ASS TIME), I wasn’t gonna see it. We had Man on Wire, I thought. We don’t need this movie. Then I actually watched Man on Wire (thinking I should at least ride my high horse, not just talk about it) and was suddenly really interested in seeing The Walk. I know. … Continue reading Movie Review: The Walk →
As you might remember, I live in Boston. You may not know that I have worked in Boston politics on occasion. To not go see this movie and have an opinion on the accents therein would prevent me from working in Boston politics ever again. This is the story of James Whitey Bulger, leader of the Winter Hill Gang, which essentially ran the Boston criminal world in the 70s and 80s. He got away with … Continue reading Movie Review: Black Mass →
