If you are looking for reasons why An Education is an enjoyable good movie, here are several ones: 1. Because Carey Mulligan is a Katie Holmes look a like but with enormous, promising talent. Carey has the perfect mix of sensitivity, sharpness, naiveté and strength needed to make An Education all the more outstanding and […]
Movie Review: Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
Where do I begin with Midnight in Paris? Midnight in Paris delivers the signature gentle humor of Woody Allen many of us have enjoyed before in classics like Hannah and Her Sisters, Mighty Aphrodite, Annie Hall and Manhattan. Woody Allen’s characters drift away from the reality towards some future, past and ultimately distant dreamscapes and […]
Movie Review: Goodnight, and Good Luck by George Clooney
Some of the greatest films ever produced tackled the integrity of journalism in the face of political crises or plain human greed e.g. All The President’s Men and the Watergate Scandal, Network and the Mad World of Television, The Devil Wears Prada and the fashion industry. Actually, Prada is all about Meryl Streep and fashion […]
Movie Review: Amour by Michael Haneke
There are only a handful of films that are unflinching in depicting an eventual reality of marriage. Courtship, the blossoming of relationship, childbirth and the ordeals of parenthood, infidelity leading to the disintegration of what was once a fairy tale, and death of the better half are all natural courses of married life which had […]