As far as introductions go, the opening seconds to Jackie are just about perfect. Director Pablo LarraÃn’s beautiful shot composition shows us this will not be a typical biopic. Mica Levi’s bone chilling score immediately informs the audience the type of beautiful tragedy we are about to go through. Lastly, Natalie Portman’s first sentence in the film cues us into a performance that, while historically accurate, is immediately captivating as we watch a woman come...
Based on a series of short stories by author Maile Maloy, Certain Women follows the lives of three women who live in Montana: A lawyer, played by Laura Dern, who has a rocky bond with one of her clients, a married woman named Gina, played by Michelle Williams, who plans to build a house from the ground up with her husband, and a ranch hand named Jamie, played by Lily Gladstone, who falls for a law school...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS DRAMA Its November and the Autumn season has started to settle in. The leaves are turning and / or falling, Pumpkins are being thrown away and Halloween decorations are being taking down. And yet, despite that the fact that Thanksgiving is right around the corner, the holiday season of Christmas has started to pop up. From retail stores to radio stations to your neighbor’s houses, Christmas comes early as the seasonal...
BIG PEFORMANCE, SAME OLD HART Over the past couple of years, comedian / actor Kevin Hart has become a staple in mainstream media, producing laughs with his loud, absurdity, and cartoon-style humor. While he’s recently taken the center stage of feature films, including the Ride Along movies, Get Hard, The Wedding Ringer, and Central Intelligence, Hart has always been a part of the stand-up comedy routine. Comedy specials feature like Kevin Hart: Let Me...
A “DIGITAL”BLAST FROM THE PAST While Pokémon was beginning to building its empire of “pocket monsters”through various media outlets (TV shows, cards games, video games), a somewhat rival franchise, Digimon “Digital Monstersâ€, was slowly on the rise. For the uninitiated, Digimon was created back in 1997 in Japan and were originally virtual pets (similar to Tamagotchi and Giga Pets), which spawned a franchise of trading cards, video games, and (most notably) an anime series, which...
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