Category: movies

Scene Breakdown: Emma and Knightley Dance in Autumn de Wilde’s ‘Emma’ (2020)

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Emma and Knightley’s dance in Autumn de Wilde’s Emma is a magnetically brilliant moment.

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Music Monday: ‘Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar’ (Original Soundtrack) by Christopher Lennertz and Dara Taylor

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I still don’t know what I watched through Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, but it was delightful all around and the soundtrack especially is a bop. We still have “Edgar’s Prayer” performed by Jamie Dornan featuring Amy Keys on replay and quite frankly I don’t know when I’ll stop singing along to the ridiculous number. The movie is fun and ridiculous and just so deliciously kooky in all the right ways that the score/soundtrack being full of remixes such as Titanic’s “My Heart Will Go On” work wondrously. I don’t know how. I don’t get it. You

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‘Malcolm and Marie’ is a Film About Films and Criticism, but It’s Also a Film About Human Complexities

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I don’t necessarily know what I expected going into Malcolm and Marie but I remember thinking the film will certainly feature some of the best performances of the year and that is without a doubt the case. Malcolm and Marie is a film about films and criticism, but it’s also a film about human complexities and navigating through them. It’s a film that calls for a variety of different analytical lenses and a film that is masterful with its performances that serve as its greatest strength throughout. And that could sort of vary from person to person. What do people

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Music Monday: ‘Emma’ 2020 (Original Score) by Isobel-Waller Bridge and David Schweitzer

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Say what you will about Autumn de Wilde’s 2020 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, I personally adore it. (And Emma is my favorite Austen novel, so yes, I’m generally pickier, but this was enjoyable through and through.) Differing opinions are fine, we get why it is not everyone’s cup of tea, but we will not stand for any criticism towards Isobel-Waller Bridge and David Schweitzer’s exquisite original score for the film. I proudly admit that the majority of these tracks were on my Spotify’s top played last year. Where, especially, are my Fleabag fans–this score is the perfect mix between

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‘One Royal Holiday’ Review

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It is a fact universally acknowledged that Aaron Tveit is everyone’s Broadway boyfriend. It is also a fact that the man can sing! (Hello, sole Tony’s 2021 Best Actor Nominee.) It is also a fact that anyone who’s been a fan of Tveit for as long as I have has wondered about a Christmas album. We have. But I’ve also gone far enough to plea to the Twitter universe yearly for a cheesy Aaron Tveit Christmas movie. The blessings in 2020 have been far and few, but the news that Aaron Tveit and Laura Osnes would be starring in a

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In Memoriam of Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark and the Legacy of Iron Man, the World’s Best Defender

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“The earth lost its best defender.” To requote Captain America — the world lost its best defender. And while death is difficult to discuss, it’s cathartic when mourning a tremendous loss. Tony Stark’s sacrificial death was one felt everywhere — a fictional loss that’ll be with us for years to come because so few before him have had such a poignant, profoundly colossal impact. He was the one in 14,000,605. It had to be him and his death served a purpose. And where great storytelling is concerned, being able to put the greater good of the world before his own

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