Hello Friends! On Wednesday evening, I sat in the Nederlander Theatre and laughed my way through the quirky new musical Honeymoon in Vegas, adapted from the 1992 film starring James Caan, Nicholas Cage, and Sarah Jessica Parker. The show opened with Jack Singer (Rob McClure) singing about the love of his life, Betsey Nolan (Brynn O’Malley),…
Hi Friends, Hannah More is a name we cannot afford to forget. Her work as an abolitionist, a feminist, a poet, a playwright, a novelist, and reformer in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, although invaluable, is largely forgotten. In Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More – Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist, Karen Swallow…
Dear Bookworms, As the days get shorter and the cold weather sets in, everyone I talk to seems to be feeling some version of tired and run down. Well, here is my prescription to combat all of that: curl up with a soft blanket, a cup of tea and this month’s book recommendation: Is It…
We did it, Write Readers! We made it all the way through! We are at the last of the last, finishing our journey with American Sniper, the second war move that didn’t feel like a war movie. I didn’t cry as much as I expected to during American Sniper, because my brain has discovered that…
Hello Friends, The journey through the eight Best Picture nominees of 2015 is winding down. This is the second-to-last review of Oscar season! There’s no better film to be reviewing than Whiplash. A whirlwind of a ride, Whiplash was written and directed by Damien Chazelle, based upon his experiences in the Princeton High School Studio…
Hello Friends, We’re almost there – this is the sixth review of the eight Best Picture nominees of the 87th annual Academy Awards. I’ve been avoiding writing this review, because as you all are well aware, I can’t handle sad films. Watching The Theory of Everything was almost as bad as War Horse. (Feel free…
Hello Friends, It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Michael Keaton in his most excellent performance since he was Batman. I’m not sure how much I’ve seen him perform since he was Batman, but IMdB says he’s done a lot of things, so I believe it. Because everything you read on the internet is true….
Hello Friends, Let us continue to march forward through all eight Best Picture nominees for the 2015 Academy Awards- Selma is next on our list. (See what I did there? Because, I said we’re marching, and Selma is about…nevermind.) Selma is a historical drama directed by Ava DuVernay, about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965…
Hello Friends, The reviews just keep on coming! Up next on our journey through the eight Best Picture nominated films of the 2015 Academy Awards is Boyhood, the chronicle of, you guessed it, the journey from boyhood to manhood. Or, at least, college-aged-hood. Boyhood is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Screenplay,…
Hello again, Write Readers! Welcome back to my series of reviews on the Academy Award Best Picture Nominees! We’re one film down, with seven to go. This next film is the one I was the most surprised to see on the list of best picture nominees- if you guessed The Grand Budapast Hotel, winner, winner, chicken…