Jackie & Ryan (aka Love Me Like You Do) movie review: in the moment
A romance of a gentle, bittersweet, grownup variety that doesn’t pretend that every connection has to be a grand, sweeping, happily-ever-after thing.
Ben Barnes
Where Are the Women? Seventh Son
Feints toward feminism quickly descend into a diatribe against women with a villain who is all about revenge against a man who wronged her sexually. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Seventh Son movie review: witches be crazy
Like Monty Python without the comedy, or at least without the intentional comedy. Jeff Bridges’ saving throw against the Phoning It In curse fails!
great movie quotes: ‘Killing Bono’
“I’m off to London to become world famous!” –Neil (Ben Barnes)
Killing Bono (review)
In Dublin in the late 1970s, a bunch of guys who fancied being rock stars even though they couldn’t play a lick of music formed two bands that developed a friendly rivalry. One of those bands went on to become U2. This is the story of the other band.
trailer break: ‘Killing Bono’
Oh, I hope this is funny. Other people’s thwarted dreams and missed opportunities usually make me want to cry, so I hope this is funny instead.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (review)
More like Voyage of the Yawn Treader, actually. Little kids will surely find this collection of fantastical geegaws enthralling — look, a talking mouse! hey, a minotaur! — but as a grownup fan of the magical and the mysterious, I was almost totally bored by this third, and perhaps most tryingly pious, installment in C.S. Lewis’s fanciful spin on Christian mythology.
Easy Virtue (review)
If Noel Coward had written *Meet the Parents,* it might look something like this: witty and wise and totally lacking in poop jokes.
my week at the movies: ‘Angels & Demons,’ ‘Adoration,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Outrage,’ ‘Easy Virtue,’ ‘Next Day Air’(?)
I’ve been seeing this poster for Angels & Demons (opens in the U.K. on May 14, and in the U.S. on May 15) all over Manhattan, and I kinda like it. It doesn’t look like every other movie ad, for one, and I like the implication of the lone academic just searching for the truth … more…
trailer break: ‘Easy Virtue’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Based on a Noel Coward play, and starring Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes (the cutie Prince Caspian), Kristin Scott Thomas, and Colin Firth? How long will we have to wait to see this in the U.S.? Easy Virtue opens in the U.K. on November 7; no U.S. … more…
