The story and characters that melted our hearts back in 2003 is ready to make a (really small) come back this month! Richard Curtis’ Love Actually is having a sequel entitled Red Nose Day Actually, a tv-short set to air during…
Movie Review: Florence Foster Jenkins
By definition, a feel-good film is something that should leave you with warm feelings of inspiration or general happiness by the end. Typically stories of overcoming great adversity or reaching a personal goal. Earlier this year, we saw the story…
The Film Canon: Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Sense and Sensibility is a film I discovered years later during an obsessive teenage phase of romantic period dramas. I went through them all and only had two films that I enjoyed re-watching over and over again. One of them…
The Film Canon: Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
Over 200 years later and we still love Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice so much that we get at least one new version of it every other year. I’m not really complaining because Pride and Prejudice is one of the…
Maxwell’s Movie Review: Cloud Atlas
Some movies are like real life – painfully realistic, often cynical or sad, these seek to portray a truth about the world we live in. Many of these are marvelous films – the best among them including Mike Leigh’s Another…
Coming Soon: Cloud Atlas
See, now I don’t know if any of you would have seen this, but in Dr. Strangelove [or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb], Peter Sellers portrays several characters within the movie. In fact, in many…