Tag: Amelia Harvey
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Nicole Holofcener Explores Relationships And Truthfulness In The Poignant ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ – Film Review
Would you lie to your loved ones to protect their feelings? This is the big question Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said, Friends with Money) explores in You Hurt My Feelings. Using a borderline smugly successful New York couple, this movie pokes holes in the everyday white lies we tell our spouses and kids and how they…
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Apple TV+’s Dystopian Sci-Fi ‘Silo’ Offers Up More Questions Than It Can Answer – TV Review
Apple TV + appears to have found a niche in high-concept science fiction. Silo follows Foundations and Extrapolations as a gritty dystopian future that feels grounded enough, in reality, to hit a nerve with modern audiences. Silo is based on Wool, a self-published sci-fi book series by Hugh Howey, who also serves as an executive…
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Chris Evans and Ana De Armas Reunite For The Outdated Action Rom-Com ‘Ghosted’ – Film Review
Boy meets girl and falls in love. The girl is a spy, and unforeseen circumstances force her to drag the man into her perilous world. That’s the basic premise of Dexter Fletcher’s Ghosted, which fails to expand upon the meet-cute turns action blockbuster concept. Cole (Chris Evans) is a down-on-his-luck farmer who meets the gorgeous…
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Womanhood And Grief Are Gracefully Explored In The Kathryn Hahn-Led ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ – TV Review
We first meet Clare (Kathryn Hahn) drunk in the back of a stranger’s car, before she is forced to break into her own home. Only it’s the home of her ex-husband and daughter, who kicked her out days prior. Clare is proudly messy and an expert in loss and family complications. Womanhood is complicated, it’s…
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The Second Season Of ‘Yellowjackets’ Lives Up To The Hype – TV Review
Yellowjackets was one of those shows where the word-of-mouth buzz slowly grew over time, then grew too loud to ignore. With season one being one of the most acclaimed shows of 2021-22, the sophomore season certainly has a lot more to live up to, and in the opening episodes, it certainly delivers on the promise.…
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Mistaken Identity Comedy-Drama ‘A Little White Lie’ Wastes Michael Shannon – Film Review
Kate Hudson plays a hopeful academic programmer down on her luck trying to save a school’s literary festival. She realises that a big booking like the mysterious author Shriver may inject some life into the dying festival. She contacts Shriver, a one-hit-wonder who stormed the literary world without showing his face 20 years ago. Part…
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‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ Is A Meticulously Made But Formulaic Rags-To-Riches Tale – TV Review
Prime Video brings the fictional 1970s rock band Daisy Jones & The Six to life in their new adaption of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel. The book, one of many of Reid’s to be adapted, is written as a series of interviews with the band some twenty years after their final gig. The ten-episode limited…
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‘The Son’ Is Two Hours Of Misery And Disappointment – Film Review
It’s hard to imagine something written and directed by Florian Zeller, who brought 2020’s The Father and that flawless performance from Anthony Hopkins, could be so poor. The Son is not just a weak movie from the French playwright and novelist but a downright dated and offensive exploration of clinical depression. The son in question…
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‘Shotgun Wedding’ Largely Wastes Its Talented Cast – Film Review
We meet Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Transformers star Josh Duhamel) on the eve of their destination wedding on an island in the Philippines. Darcy wants to elope, but Tom uses his wedding to prove himself to her family and possibly himself. The relatively simple set-up for Shotgun Wedding is laid out in the film’s…
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Rahul Kohli Charms In Mali Elfman’s Road Trip To The Afterlife
Would assisted suicide be more acceptable if there was proof of life after death? Next Exit handles these heavy themes with a light-handed charm, even if the larger concept is sometimes ignored in favour of character development. Set in a world where ghosts have been confirmed as real, society struggles to cope with this new…
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