A Little Chaos is sort of a mess (not in a chaotic way, alas – it’s actually quite staid) but it’s a very pretty mess. Fans of historicals will love the look of the movie and the acting from Alan Rickman (who also directs) and Kate Winslet. There a couple of amazing scenes that are A+ quality and a romance that, alas, doesn’t take off, and some very pretty costumes and scenery. Kate Winslet plays … Continue reading Movie Review: A Little Chaos
While all of us here at the Bitchery love Mario Kart, I would probably say I’m the gamer amongst us. I played World of Warcraft very seriously (Burning Crusade expansion) for end game content. At one point, I was the second best geared in my class on my server, first on Alliance side. (I’m sorry if this all sounds like a foreign language!) I frequently helped host LAN parties for Halo tournaments. My favorite game … Continue reading Game Review: Regency Love
Miss Austen Regrets is a BBC movie about the last years of Jane Austen’s life. It’s beautifully cast, with wonderful dialogue, much of which comes straight from Jane Austen herself, and Olivia Williams is a fantastic Jane – very human, funny, smart, and fun loving. But the movie tries to do three things at once. It tries to show the consequences for a woman of Austen’s time being single, it tries to show Jane as a … Continue reading Movie Review: Miss Austen Regrets
Set somewhere in the early 1960’s, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is a Cold War spy thriller starring the luscious Henry Cavill as American secret agent (and former art thief) Napoleon Solo. Yes, Napoleon Solo. He has to team up with Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), a KGB agent, and Gaby (Alicia Vikander), an East German defector, in order to keep a nuclear weapon out of the hands of some rogue fascists. Shenanigans ensue, and Redheadedgirl and I … Continue reading Movie Review: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
This is a tiny independent movie that explores the messy, glorious, horrific, and amazing inner life of a teenage girl and how the world is utterly unprepared to allow girls to be girls. It marks the sexual coming-of-age of a 15 year old, Minnie, in 1976 San Francisco, which begins when she enters into a sexual relationship with her mother’s boyfriend. It’s based on a critically-acclaimed graphic novel by Phoebe Glockner. This movie touches on … Continue reading Movie Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl
We were asked if we would review MI:RN (I can’t do the MI5 thing, y’all, that’s the American name for the British show Spooks and that just makes me sad that there’s no Matthew MacFadyen or Richard Armitage or Hermione Norris or Rupert Perry Jones). Carrie and I looked at each other (online, not literally) shrugged, and said “sure” and then we had two VERY different experiences. Rogue Nation takes up sometime after the events … Continue reading Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Continuing our “Summer of movies about women” we have a… dude, it’s almost a coming of age/getting your shit together (kind of) movie about an older woman, and the children she left behind. Meryl Streep plays Ricki Randazzo, an aging front woman with her band The Flash. They’re the house band for a hole-in-the-wall bar outside of LA where they play mostly covers of classic rock and roll, but occasionally break out into newer songs … Continue reading Movie Review: Ricki and the Flash
Before We Go is marketed as a drama, a comedy and a romance, and it marks Chris Evan’s debut as a director. When the film opens we see Nick Vaughan (Evans) sitting on the floor at Grand Central Station, fiddling with his trumpet. No, like an actual trumpet. Get your mind out of the gutter. Brooke Dalton (Alice Eve) goes running by, dropping her phone and breaking it. She makes it to the platform, but … Continue reading Movie Review: Before We Go
I was (un)fortunate enough to have had a day off sick and bought some ex-rental movies from the video place that week, and two of them were Harlequin books in movie format. Oh. My. God. Late nineties contemporary Harlequin in visual form was precisely as bad as you think it was. Complete with farcical comedy in the middle of what was probably supposed to be a suspenseful build-up and a WTF ending, it was everything … Continue reading Harlequin Films: Recipe for Revenge – A Guest Review from Erin
I’m gonna be honest here, RedheadedGirl and I did not have high hopes for Ant-Man. Really? Another movie about a white dude? With ants? Even the trailers did not inspire us to enthusiasm. But, we are the minions of Marvel. We had better just admit it. If Marvel has a movie, we will see it, and surprise – we both kind of liked it! Ant-Man’s biggest problem isn’t that it’s bad; it’s that the other … Continue reading Movie Review: Ant-Man
This is a movie that knows what it is and is content to be so. Light on plot, heavy on abs. Men with shirt allergies and simple goals. So many abs. I have not seen the first Magic Mike. I did, however, read the wikipedia plot summary before the movie started. That’s enough. It’s three years after the events of Magic Mike, and Mike has a tidy little business making custom furniture. When the other boys … Continue reading Movie Review: Magic Mike XXL
