Tag: Amanda Seyfried

  • The Crowded Room teems with personality

    The Crowded Room teems with personality

    The Crowded Room is hard to talk about without giving away the secret it tries to hide for the first five of its ten episodes. I can tell you that it’s a fascinating, complicated psychological drama and well worth watching. Tom Holland is brilliant in this, and so is Amanda Seyfried. With that said, I…

  • Long Bright River, Amanda Seyfried plays a cop with secrets

    Long Bright River, Amanda Seyfried plays a cop with secrets

    Long Bright River tells a grim and dark tale starring Amanda Seyfried as a Philadelphia cop who is invested in her community. There are police procedural aspects to the story, but it’s essentially a psychological exploration of one family’s secrets and lies.

  • Love in the Villa, romcom set in Juliet’s Verona

    Love in the Villa, romcom set in Juliet’s Verona

    Love in the Villa is a standard romcom. Netflix is getting adept and churning these out with almost the same speed as the Hallmark Channel. This one is distinguished by being filmed in Verona, Italy in the piazza where letters to Juliet (as in Romeo and Juliet) arrive by the thousands.

  • Review: First Reformed

    Review: First Reformed

    First Reformed is an intellectual journey inward through the mind and sparse congregation of the Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke) of the First Reformed Church. It’s an austere world we visit in this film.

  • Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

    Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

    Quickly now! See if you can guess how I felt about Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again based on these facts. 1) I loved the now 10-year-old Mamma Mia! 2) I love ABBA. 3) I love a musical. Have you guessed yet?

  • Watch This: Trailers for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

    Watch This: Trailers for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

    Trailers are showing up for the July release of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Here’s a spot from the Grammys and a regular release trailer.

  • Review: The Last Word

    Review: The Last Word

    The Last Word is a funny and moving tale about a woman everyone loved to hate. It stars Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried, and AnnJewel Lee Dixon.

  • Watch This: Trailer for The Last Word

    Watch This: Trailer for The Last Word

    Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried star in The Last Word. It’s a part Shirley MacLaine has played several times before – the curmudgeonly control freak that no one can stand. But the foil for her excesses in the past has always been some hapless young man. Now she’s up against Amanda Seyfried. It should make…