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Movie Review: WEST SIDE STORY
WEST SIDE STORY Director: Steven SpielbergStarring: Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, Mike Faist, David Alvarez, Rita Moreno, Brian d’Arcy James, Corey Stoll The combination of Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner (Lincoln) working with the classic musical by Steven Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, and Arthur Laurents comes with massive expectations knowing the caliber of these creative…
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Movie Review: THE GOLDFINCH
THE GOLDFINCH Director: John CrowleyStarring: Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Finn Wolfhard, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Aneurin Barnard If you’ve read Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, you are familiar with the sweeping gut punch she lays out in her story about Theo Decker. Too bad the film adaptation is missing all…
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Movie Trailer: THE GOLDFINCH
THE GOLDFINCH Director: John CrowleyStarring: Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard, Willa Fitzgerald, Luke Wilson, Jeffrey Wright, Denis O’Hare The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt has been passed around from book club to book club. My mother-in-law absolutely loved it and couldn’t put it down. It went on to win the Pulitzer…
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Movie Review: BABY DRIVER
BABY DRIVER Writer/Director: Edgar Wright Starring: Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Lily James, Jamie Foxx, Jon Bernthal, Flea, Eiza González At one point, writer and director Edgar Wright was attached to direct Marvel’s Ant-Man back in 2015. If his departure from that film meant more time for Baby Driver than it’s another example of…
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Movie Review: THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT Director: Robert Schwentke Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Zoë Kravitz, Jeff Daniels, Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts, Bill Skarsgård, Maggie Q At the end of Insurgent, the second film in the Divergent series, our heroine Tris Prior (Woodley) learned that the factions in Chicago were all part of…
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Movie Review: THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT Director: Robert Schwentke Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James, Miles Teller, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Mekhi Phifer Let’s recap the world of Divergent because it can get a bit tricky. Even for someone that read the first book and saw the first movie, I felt a…
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2014 Twin Cities Film Fest: MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN
MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN Director: Jason Reitman Starring: Jennifer Garner, Adam Sandler, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, Dean Norris, Judy Greer, Emma Thompson, Olivia Crocicchia, Kaitlyn Dever Jason Reitman has been known to tackle a variety of hot-button subjects like teen pregnancy (Juno), corporate layoffs (Up in the Air), and Stockholm syndrome (Labor Day). This time…
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TWIN CITIES LIVE- September 19, 2014
TWIN CITIES LIVE September 19, 2014 It was a page to screen adaptation day on Twin Cities Live. I believe this is one of my longest segments, and it’s also one of my favorites. Enjoy! 1. THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU, Starring: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Corey Stoll,…
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TWIN CITIES LIVE–June 11, 2014
TWIN CITIES LIVE June 11, 2014 Here are today’s picks plus links to each of my reviews: 1. The Fault in Our Stars, starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern 2. Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton 3. Non-Stop, starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy Here’s…
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Movie Review: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Director: Josh Boone Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Willem Dafoe Don’t let the phrase “young adult novel adaptation” turn you away. There are no vampires, no districts, no dystopian universes, no magical spells, and no whiny characters. Yes, Hazel Grace Lancaster (Woodley) and Augustus…
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