Among people who keep an eye on movie news, Tulip Fever has been a bit of a folk tale. It was announced in 2013, and screened at the 2015 Venice film festival, but then its release dates kept getting pushed back and back and back. When Fandango actually put up a release date, it was for the last weekend in August, but in reality it opened on Labor Day weekend. It’s a weird movie with … Continue reading Movie Review: Tulip Fever
For your melodrama pleasure, Dreamworks presents you with a smorgasbord of gorgeous views, sad people, a lost baby, and crashing waves. As World War One winds to a close, Tom Sherborne (Michael Fassbender) returns to Western Australia to take a position as a lighthouse keeper on an island off the coast . He’s haunted by the war, and thinks the idea of being all by himself on an island for six months sounds GREAT. He … Continue reading Movie Review: The Light Between Oceans
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.
I expect that we’ll see a number of WWI themed movies over the next three or four years as we pass through the centennial anniversaries. I’ve written before how I have this fascination with the insanity that was WWI, so yes, I’ll go see like, all of them. I was really excited for this one, being the biography of Vera Brittain and how much I love women’s history and telling women’s stories. I also, having cut … Continue reading Movie Review: Testament of Youth
