Oh, well, if the actor says something in a promo thing, in that case, I take it all back.
It sparked a fiery blacklash and some well deserved outrage in France at the time (I’m French), but even knowing it in advance, it still hurt when the character says it in the movie. By the way, I loved it, I think it’s way more solid and clever with its structure revolving around three very different characters than…
the Cardinal, speaking at a press conference, says that “by the grace of God,” most of the heinous abuse committed by priests falls outside the statute of limitations.
“Holiday” has my favourite Hepburn performance of all her films. Her character is ridiculously loveable. And the movie does a better job of spotlighting classism and how it can ruin genuine interaction.
Excellent review! I gotta say, though, watched both this and Holiday, made by/with most of the same team, for the first time last month, and perhaps I had some unfair expectations going into this one - it doesn’t exactly operate in the same mode - but I couldn’t believe that this is the much more canonical and revered…
Notably, that’s referring to the movie versions and not the real-life Warrens, who were unrepentant con artists preying on people’s fear and grief.
Star for both hilarity and deadpan delivery.
Hate to say it, but D&D made the right decision and maintained a holistic vision for the show’s ending. Excellent direction would have been jarring alongside piddle-poor writing.
I think that the differences in class between the main characters in The Shop Around The Corner and You’ve Got Mail makes a huge difference. The owner of the store in the original is the comic relief. The multi-millionaire captain of industry is the love interest in the remake.
The only bomb was Dumbo, which even if it had been received well seemed like a pretty big mismatch of director to content.
This seems interesting enough to check out. But it sounds like it may suffer from deciding that its Superman stand-in needed to become fully evil in the way that the iconic version of Superman is fully good. Once you make an all-powerful character fully evil it seems like you’re locked into some predictable endgames.…
I suspect it’ll take a good while to watch all the movies on there that I want to see but you make a decent point
The history of Pretty Woman shouldn’t leave out the actresses who turned down Julia Roberts’ role. Best of all Jennifer Jason Leigh:
To be fair, BlacKKKlansman never actually denied that it exaggerated stuff.
Because even if it were entirely true, the end result of Green Book’s narrative is to place racism not only in the past, but as something that was indeed conquered by simple exposure, so the audience isn’t challenged to change or feel anything but comfort. Cinematic mashed potatoes.
Meanwhile, even if it were an…
Actually a huge part of the problem with Blackkklansman is how it understates the racism of the police force at the time, relegating it to a few “bad apples” while ignoring the racism of the structure of police itself. Boots Riley covered it pretty well:
Or maybe they don’t entertain some people? Namely the people who vote in these lists?
Just watched this movie last weekend. Still not sure how I feel about the
Since you referenced Breihan’s ongoing “Age of Heroes” column, any chance these two features will collide with an Avengers style team-up to review 2006's My Super Ex-Girlfriend?