Tag Archives: Michelle Yeoh

A Haunting in Venice (2023) Review

DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING…   In 2017, actor / director Kenneth Branagh brought the classic and beloved murder mystery drama of novelist Agatha Christie to the silver screen with the release of Murder on the Orient Express. Directed and starring in the lead role by Branagh himself, the film, which also had the talents of Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz,

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Review

JUST BE A ROCK!   The idea of a multiverse has certain been a big business in recent big mainstream tentpoles, with blockbuster cinematics of late exploring the various concepts of alternate timelines and different lives. While not exactly a new convention of plot mechanics, multiverse business has utilized in a wide variety of storytelling art forms, including comic books,

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Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) Review

THE RISE OF IMPROVEMENT FOR THIS ANIMATED PREQUEL ENDEAVOR   In 2015, Illumination Entertainment released Minions, an animated spin-off tale to the Despicable Me series, and offered plenty of cartoon mischief for fans of the franchise. Directed by co-director Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, the movie, which starred Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, and Allison Janney, followed the journey

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Last Christmas (2019) Review

A TACKFUL HOLIDAY DRAMEDY / NOT A SHARP HOLIDAY ROM-COM   It’s that time of year…and its here. Whether you call the Christmas season or just simply the “holidays” (depending on what religious celebration you celebrate during the month of December), this is the season for the time of gift giving, gathering with loved ones, and joining in on the

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Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Review

WHAT A ROMANTIC COMEDY SHOULD BE   With Hollywood studios investing money in big-budgeted tentpole features or in smaller scale artistic films (ones that are worthy of Oscar / award nominations), the subgenre of romantic comedies is left somewhere in the middle of those two extreme juggernaut film genres. Naturally, romantic comedies movies, which are both a subgenre to both

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