Tag: Emma Thompson
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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.
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Watch This: Trailers for The Wife and The Children Act
The Wife with Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce will be released in August. The Children Act, also in theaters in August, stars Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci in a legal drama. I’m combining these two teasers into a single post because of the fact that they are both movies for grown ups and feature outstanding…
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Watch This: Trailer for Bridget Jones’s Baby
Bridget Jones’s Baby is the third in the Bridget Jones saga starring Renée Zellweger. Bridget Jones’s story is significant because it has been a woman-fronted comedy success story for 15 years.
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Review: A Walk in the Woods
A Walk in the Woods stars Robert Redford as the writer Bill Bryson. His hiking buddy Katz is played by Nick Nolte. Also featured in the film are Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman and Kristen Schaal.