Tag: Emma Thompson
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Dead of Winter, what the heck, Emma?
Dead of Winter stars Emma Thompson and Judy Greer. That was the inducement. A good script would have been a better inducement, but I had to watch it to discover that.
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Down Cemetery Road: mystery, danger, and mayhem
Down Cemetery Road is a mystery about government bad behavior. It’s an innocent bystander plotline with some pretty farfetched story points. Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed it so much and found myself smiling so often.
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, a review
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy brings 20 years of Renée Zellweger’s reign as Bridget Jones, diary keeper, to a close. This one is slightly different in tone from the earlier films. Bridget is grieving, has kids, and finds carrying on with living after a loss hard to figure out.
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What’s Love Got to Do with It? review. Who you gonna marry?
What’s Love Got to Do with It? is a comedy about a documentary filmmaker and an arranged marriage. Zoe (Lily James) and Kazim (Shazad Latif) grew up as next door neighbors. They’re in their 30s now and both sets of parents are impatient to get them married off. Kazim announces that he’ll follow the Pakistani…
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Men, Women and Children: internet alarms ring
Men, Women and Children showed up as new on Prime Video and I liked the cast so I gave it a watch. I didn’t realize it was from 2014 and not particularly great until it was going, but I stuck with it.
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Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical review
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical was a complete surprise to me. I was expecting music, dancing, and a happy, cheerful children’s story. There was music and dancing, but Matilda’s story turned out to be a dark fantasy about child abuse and neglect.
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Good Luck to you, Leo Grande
Good Luck to you, Leo Grande is a beautiful film about an older woman and a sex worker. He not only manages to deliver sexual pleasure to her for the first time in her life, he also teaches her she need not feel guilty about wanting it.
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Review: Late Night
Don’t miss Late Night. By women, about women, but not only for women. It’s funny, it’s barbed, it’s terrific.
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Review: The Children Act
The Children Act tackles topics like religion vs. the state, freedom of choice, and holding on. It’s serious stuff. The brilliant Emma Thompson makes it worth watching as she plays a judge in the midst of two crises.