Category: Film Reviews
Why ‘To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’ is The Best Kind of Sequel
P.S. I Still Love You is the perfect rom-com to watch this Valentine’s Day!
Read More
Tune in for Love (2019): A Sweet, Slow-burning Korean Romance
If you love romantic Korean dramas or the Before movies, then find out more about Tune in For Love in our review.
Read More
Little Women (2019) – The Truest Adaptation to Louisa May Alcott
Review of Little Women (2019) – Let’s talk about that ending!
Read More
‘Christmas Reservations’ Review: An Irresistibly Sweet New Lifetime Movie
This Christmas rom-com will melt your heart with first love, holiday cheer, and Bollywood dancing.
Read More
Ladies in Black – See This Elegant Period Drama Full of Style
Ladies in Black Review: Bruce Beresford, the award-winning director of Driving Miss Daisy, has a new period drama full of 1950s nostalgia.
Read More
‘The Bitter Tea of General Yen’ Review – See One of the First Interracial Romances on Screen
Directed by Frank Capra, The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a relatively forgotten pre-Code film with social relevance, religious cynicism, violence, and a shocking interracial romance between a Chinese warlord and a Christian missionary. Indeed, this is not the type of movie one thinks of when referencing a Capra classic. It’s a Wonderful Life it is not. But that’s what makes this movie so fascinating. Not only is it different from Capra’s later films, but it’s also a love story ahead of its time.
Read More
Review: ‘High Strung Free Dance’ is Full of Powerful Romanticism
High Strung Free Dance works as a standalone movie about the transcendent power of artistic creation and Romanticism – with a compelling love triangle added into the mix, of course!
Read More
Review: Downton Abbey is the Period Drama Movie of the Year
Downton Abbey may have ignited a new age in cinema, proving going to the movies can still be a magical experience. The Downton Abbey movie (written by creator Julian Fellowes) is glamourous, nostalgic, funny, romantic, clever, heartbreaking, and entertaining. It’s everything you expect to see in an excellent period flick. Will it make complete sense if you haven’t seen the TV show? Maybe not. But it’s not hard to follow and even Downton newbies in the audience were entertained. But what made the film ultimately so special was the experience itself.
Read More
Tanna (2015): Star-Crossed Lovers in the South Pacific
From the island of Tanna in the country of Vanuatu, a group of islands in Melanesia, east of Australia in the South Pacific, comes this heartbreaking tale of forbidden love. Yes, the Tanna movie is essentially a tribal version of Shakespeare’s great tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Two young lovers torn apart by intertribal strife and collective customs.
Read More
‘Falling Inn Love’ Netflix Review: This is a Sweet New Romance
Falling Inn Love is a ray of sunshine perfect for fans of Hallmark. It knows what it is, and because I go in expecting it to be this, the film is nothing if not charming.
Read More
My Neighbor Totoro (1988): A Modern-Day Animated Classic
My Neighbor Totoro is a hopeful film about two young sisters finding magic in everyday life, helping them to cope with life’s uncertainties.
Read More
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) – A Musical That is Pure Fun Entertainment
There is so much to love about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, not the least of which it is pure escapist fun.
Read More
RECENT POSTS
