Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Starring Lily James, Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett Pretend I sound like your mother when I say: This is just a nice movie. The story of Cinderella (James) is one that banks on the obvious cruelty that the stepmother (Blanchett) and stepsisters (Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera) throw at our innocent heroine. Some… Read More Cinderella (2015)
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. There are times when a movie being boring is kind of the point. Loving is sort of a boring movie. There are long stretches of Stalker which are well short of exciting. Columbus is not a thrill ride. Incidentally, those are three of the… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 65-61
Honorable mentions: “The Prince Is Giving a Ball,” “Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?” There are good love stories about people who have been in love for a while, maybe. There aren’t very many at all about people who consistently love each other throughout; they’re about people learning to love one another again, or… Read More Songs from Musicals: #13, “Ten Minutes Ago,” from Cinderella
Rules: Yes, I stole this idea from my older brother. He can complain to someone else about it, because people pay him to write stuff in real life and I have a blog that no one cares about. I’ve chosen fifty musicals that mean at least a little something to me, and then picked some… Read More Songs from Musicals: Intro and Links
Seeing Things Secondhand 