Little Women (2019)
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s much-beloved and oft-adapted novel of the same name, Little Women relates the story of the four March sisters, growing up in their humble existence in 19th Century Massachusetts. Greta Gerwig...
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s much-beloved and oft-adapted novel of the same name, Little Women relates the story of the four March sisters, growing up in their humble existence in 19th Century Massachusetts. Greta Gerwig...
One of the more tired of cliches among the post-Apatow raunchy romantic comedies is the trope of the shlubby geek always seeming to have beautiful girlfriends, most of them completely unrealistic in the manner...
The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the successful romantic adventure comedy of the year prior, Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone, featuring the same main players in Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny...
2010s / Comedy / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 16, 2016 · Last modified July 9, 2018
Kristen Wiig (Zoolander 2, The Martian) plays Erin Gilbert, an ambitious associate professor seeking tenure at New York’s prestigious Columbia University. Erin ends up losing that when a book she published years ago on ghosts...
Starting off in Buffalo, NY, at the turn of the 20th century, Mia Wasikowska (Madame Bovary, The Double) stars as an aspiring writer named Edith Cushing (nod to Hammer Horror thespian Peter Cushing, no doubt)...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 26, 2008 · Last modified March 6, 2019
Chevy Chase (Caddyshack, Modern Problems) stars as Nick Gardenia, a divorced writer who is abducted from his secluded Big Sur, California bungalow at gunpoint and forced to rob a bank by a couple of two-bit...
1408 is based on the Stephen King short story of the same name, originally written for a collection of straight-to-audiobook tales called “Blood and Smoke”. Although the gist of it is the same, like...
Although M. Night Shyamalan is a very talented writer and director, his films are becoming progressively more ambitious, and unfortunately, progressively tricky to suspend disbelief in. Lady in the Water is his most ambitious film yet,...
It’s not quite a biography about famous writer Truman Capote so much as a biographical account of the making of his most famous work, In Cold Blood, during the 1960s. It would be a landmark...
A heavily sentimental drama, which generally means that it will deeply affect some while missing other viewers altogether, Finding Neverland seeks to tell the tale of what inspired playwright J.M. Barrie to pen “Peter Pan”. Many...
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