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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: Cinderella

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Sunday, April 12, 2015. Today I saw Cinderella. Starring Lily James and Cate Blanchett. The story of Cinderella is sewn so tightly into the fabric of our collective memories that the plot doesn't need repeating, so instead I'll just highlight the pros and cons of this live action rendition:. I missed the music. I like a little Bibbidi-Bobbiti-Boo with my fairy Godmothering and the fact there was only a drop of song here and there was disappointing.

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: Ted 2

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Sunday, July 05, 2015. Last night I saw Ted 2. Starring Mark Wahlberg and the voice of Seth MacFarlane. When we last saw Ted the talking teddy bear (MacFarlane), he had fallen in love with his colleague Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth). When this film opens, they're tying the knot. Ted doesn't have the appropriate baby-making body part. On the negative side (if you don't mind the filth) was the continuation of Hasbro villain Donny (Giovonni Ribisi) trying to reclaim Ted. What w...

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: Inside Out

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Friday, June 19, 2015. Tonight I saw Inside Out. Starring the voices of Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith. Pixar has done it again. They've gone and created a visually stunning, colorful, magical film that not only pleases the aural senses, but pulls your heart out and presents it to you on a platter. What an amazing metaphor for an adolescent brain! Didn't we all feel like a crazy train wreck of emotions during those years? I laughed, I cried, I mused, I remembered, I reflected...

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: Cake

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Today I saw Cake. Starring Jennifer Aniston and Adriana Barraza. Claire Bennett (Aniston) suffers from chronic pain. After a debilitating car accident, she becomes a different woman: bitter, angry, stiff and mean. Her situation takes a different shape when her friend Nina (Anna Kendrick), commits suicide. Claire suddenly has something else to focus on, and that focus manifests into visits to the death site and time spent with Nina's surviving ...

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: Our Summer in Provence

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Our Summer in Provence. Today I saw Our Summer in Provence. Starring Jean Reno and Lukas Pelissier. When Irene (Anna Galiena) takes in her daughter's children for the summer as she navigates a new world as a divorcee, her husband Paul (Reno) is furious. He has been estranged from their girl for 17 years and feels she's dumping her children upon them unfairly. As the summer continues, a problem Paul is battling comes front and center, and the family reac...

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: Kingsman: The Secret Service

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Sunday, April 12, 2015. Kingsman: The Secret Service. Just realized, a full month after I saw this film, that I never reviewed it. Shame on me, but I think it's too late now to remember specifics and provide fair commentary, so I'll just say this: it was fun, Colin Firth was delightful and if you're looking for something that doesn't make you work too hard as a viewer, you'll probably enjoy it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck.

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: All Things Must Pass

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Saturday, May 30, 2015. All Things Must Pass. Tonight I screened the documentary All Things Must Pass. Full disclosure: I was a financial backer of this film by way of a Kickstarter donation in 2011 and my name does actually appear in the credits ( 1st name, 3rd column if anyone's looking. Since I had absolutely no creative control, I don't think it's a conflict of interest to script a review. If you disagree, then feel free to leave this page. This film isn't about just me,...

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: American Sniper

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Today I saw American Sniper. Starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. Chris Kyle (Cooper) is a hard-working American cowboy who feels moved to fight for his country and enlists at age 30. He trains to become a Navy Seal and soon becomes a legend for his precise sniper skills in the desert. It's a good, solid, sad, inspirational entertaining film. I procrastinated seeing it because war is hard to watch, but I'm glad I went because now I'm aware of...

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: The Little Death

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Tuesday, June 02, 2015. Tonight I screened The Little Death. Starring Josh Lawson and Kate Box. There are many ways to participate in and enjoy sex—the couples in this film give several methods a lighthearted spotlight in this story about relationships. Perhaps less conventional, there's a man who wants his wife primarily while she's sleeping and another couple who promises to nurture the fetishes of the other only to discover one of them is horrific.

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog: Tig

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Tassoula's Movie Review Blog. Saturday, June 06, 2015. Tonight I screened the documentary Tig. I remember opening my email in October of 2012 and seeing one from Louis C.K. that started like this:. This film answers that question and so many more. Sounds depressing, eh? Don't think that for a minute. This was the most hilarious, life-affirming, just-what-anyone-going-through-anything-should-see documentary that I've ever witnessed. Throughout death and disappointment—and facing more death&#...Though I di...