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Clichés that belong to garbage (24 movies items)"Accidental message I gave this movie kudos for its flash-forward opening in my ode to good clichés, but at times writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig was pushing her luck: when the progression of your story hinges on someone accidentally pushing the wrong button on a text or e-mail or what have you, I instinctively start counting strikes. It's almost as bad as someone butt-dialing or leaving the line open (which I should lump in here as well) and hearing something of devastating nature. The Edg"
Vive la Cliché! (17 movies items)"Flashforward opening (Sometimes a cold open, too.) Quite simply, this is the writer/director/storyteller dropping you in the middle of the story, giving a little whiff of what's to come as like a little teaser, before backing up to elaborate how we got to this point. It was hard for me to get into the Mission:Impossible after parts one and two, but starting the third one with established protagonist Ethan Hunt tied to a chair in a dark room, with a gun pointed to his fiancée's head? After 4 l"
My Favourite Female Directed Films (20 movies items)"Kelly Fremon Craig Other Notable Works The upcoming Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. "
The Evolution of Hailee Steinfeld
My Favorite Films of 2016 (25 movies items)" "There are two types of people in the world: The people who naturally excel at life. And the people who hope all those people die in a big explosion." Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig Written by Kelly Fremon Craig Music by Atli Örvarsson Cinematography by Doug Emmett Editing by Tracey Wadmore-Smith"
Debutant Movies
Best Directorial Debuts from 1921 until 2021“Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I have to admit that I was actually really impressed by the damned thing and, in this genre, it is probably one of the best movies I have seen. Indeed, the main character was such an interesting and realistic character, a really complex and fully-fledged human-being and Hailee Steinfeld gave easily by far her best performance so far. Another refreshing aspect about this movie was the fact that there was no actual bad guy and, even though the movie mostly focused on Nadine, the rest of the characters did make sense, at least, their action and behaviour were realistic and believable. And, yet, it seems that this movie was still missing something to really blow me away. To be honest, I” read more
2020 Movie Watch List (577 movies items)"Watched via: Blu-Ray (Panasonic) Date: 05.18.20 Genre: Comedy, Drama RE-watchability: 3*** (out of 5)"
