A Star is Born
The film remains timely for the themes of fame and success it explores with such great scope and emotion
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The film remains timely for the themes of fame and success it explores with such great scope and emotion
The beauty of Charles Schultz’s Peanuts is its mix of simplicity and complexity. The drawings aren’t exactly detailed. The situations that Charlie Brown and company find themselves in are everyday[…]
Martin Campbell returns to the once edgy and jagged ground of his excellent BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness with a much slicker spin that sheds much of what made the first go around so good.
Some are still fun, intentional or not, while others are unbearable. But because it’s just a sample, it’s nice to get a reminded of the way things used to be.
While not a horrible film, it certainly isn’t the type of feature that would make anyone an icon or even a star.
Has the distinction of being one of those movies that’s so bad it actually has some solid entertainment value.
Told from the insider’s perspective of Harry Warner’s granddaughter Cass Warner, comes a slightly Michael Moore-esque look at the establishment of the Warner empire in Hollywood.
A surreal experience that is both a beautiful and somewhat frustrating. And that’s saying something for a story that is rooted in the strange and absurd.
Draws you in with the smaller dramas rather than whacking you over the head with something huge.
Christmas · Sucky Sequels · TV: A-M
Aside from the charming technical aspects, A Miser Brothers’ Christmas is a fat lump of coal in the Christmas special canon.