Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Fifty Shades Freed continues what you already expect from the series, and despite giving us better interplay among the leads and reducing the number of instances of overtly laughable dialogue, it can’t be “freed’...
2010s / Drama / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 11, 2018 · Last modified December 5, 2019
Fifty Shades Freed continues what you already expect from the series, and despite giving us better interplay among the leads and reducing the number of instances of overtly laughable dialogue, it can’t be “freed’...
1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published October 22, 2017 · Last modified March 7, 2019
A sick young boy (Savage, Vice Versa) gets a visit from his grandfather (Falk, Vibes), who reads the young lad one of his favorite books, ‘The Princess Bride’. The book is of a beautiful young noble named...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Romance / War
by Vincent Leo · Published May 1, 2017 · Last modified July 17, 2018
Set in 1940, around the time of the London Blitz during World War II, Their Finest stars Gemma Arterton (The Girl with All the Gifts, Gemma Bovery) as Catrin Cole, a fledgling screenwriter from Wales who has...
2010s / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 4, 2017 · Last modified August 1, 2018
The Discovery offers up an interesting theoretical drama about what might occur from a sociological standpoint if it were to be proven that there’s life after death. The film posits that the fear of death...
1990s / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published March 20, 2017 · Last modified July 10, 2018
A key entry in the Disney revival of the 1990s, Beauty and the Beast retells the old French fairytale, originally written centuries before, to a new generation. Paige O’Hara voices Belle, a provincial French...
In this follow-up to the wildly popular kinky romance drama Fifty Shades of Grey, we find perpetually blushing publishing-house editorial assistant Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson, A Bigger Splash) making it through life without the help or attention...
It’s the first film written and directed by Andrea Arnold (Wuthering Heights, Fish Tank) in the United States, based upon an article from a New York Times article written in 2007 exploring the phenomenon...
2010s / Drama / Musical / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published December 20, 2016 · Last modified July 25, 2018
Emma Stone (Aloha, Irrational Man) stars as a struggling actress named Mia, who works as a barista in a coffee shop on the Warner Bros. lot, in between auditions that only serve to make her...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published November 29, 2016 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Warren Beatty’s (Bulworth, Dick Tracy) first motion picture work in about fifteen years sees him a bit rusty with Rules Don’t Apply, an earnest but inconsistent attempt at a comedy with dramatic undertones that feels like...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published July 5, 2016 · Last modified July 10, 2018
Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alexander Skarsgard (Zoolander 2, Hidden) stars as John Clayton III of Greystoke Manor, an earl living comfortably in London during the Victorian Era, whose past has made...
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