I Can’t Wait!: Australia, The Soloist, & Quantum of Solace
Fall is here & that means – Oscar season! Yes, a few inspirational films scattered throughout a bunch of movies to slit-your-wrists-by. Guess which ones I prefer. On the heels of Oscar season comes the holiday movie season. Blockbuster tentpole releases, family films (some crappy, some fun), & a few Oscar stragglers. Here are a few [...]
Review: Like Water For Chocolate
Chick 2 says: Like Water for Chocolate is a subtitled film typical of fairy tale fantastical stories from Mexican directors. It’s the story of Tita, forbidden to marry her true love so that she can care for her overbearing mother, she pours all her unfulfilled emotion into her cooking. Her true love Pedro, in order [...]
Review: Blow Dry
Chick 1 says: I’d been wanting to see this quirky little British movie for several years. It has an amazing cast & looked like the hairstyling version of Strictly Ballroom, a movie I love. Blow Dry stars Alan Rickman as Phil, a hairstylist in the small British town of Keighly, who was once an international hairstyling champion. [...]
Review: The Women
Chick 2 says: The Women is a movie that celebrates, well, women. This story is all about women living their lives – with each other, with their family, with their careers, and with men, although the latter cannot be seen anywhere in the film, not even on the camera crew. Walking though a door opened [...]
Review: Burn After Reading
Chick 1 says: While I certainly appreciate the talent of the Coen Brothers, I can’t exactly call myself an expert or even necessarily a fan. My personal taste in movies doesn’t usually gravitate toward dark or graphic violence so that eliminates quite a few of the Coens’ major films, including last year’s No Country For Old Men, [...]
