The Vietnam War was dumb. Fact.
There were no women in Vietnam. Lie.
Follow one Army nurse and her tumultuous struggle during her two tours in ‘Nam. And like with all war, it didn’t end when the veterans returned home. It never really does.
I cannot be persuaded that this is a timeless classic. Nor will I accept that this is a superior Austen novel than that of Pride and Prejudice.
Persuasion feels like you got stuck in a corner with Chatty Kathy who innocently asked “Did you hear about Anne and Fred?!” And trying to be polite, you engage. Then she spends the next several hours talking nonstop about conversations she overheard from people you don’t know. By the end you’ll both have forgotten the original question and if there was any point to the ‘conversation’ and to top it all off… you desperately have to pee.
Looking for a story to wrap you up in a too-warm scratchy blanket that will stay with you for too long? Then look no further than They Went Left. Zofia was separated from her entire family during the Holocaust. After the war ends, Zofia is determined to find her younger brother even though it’s been three years since they last saw one another. 1945 saw the end of the war, but not the heartache and suffering. I’m still not fully onboard with this ending, but it is what it is.
A rare occasion where you don’t feel like you’ve been watching the same story for three hours.
Stone’s thorough research plays out in a series of dramatized scenarios that poke holes in every “official” account of the events surrounding John F. Kennedy’s assassination. New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, tries to put the pieces together despite of multiple groups working against him.
A South African boarding house holds more than a few quirky tenants. There’s a history there long forgotten, and a djinn trying to keep it that way. Until Sana arrives with her father and starts asking questions. She finds a diary that paints a vivid picture of how different this grand estate once was. But the more she reads, and the more the djinn interferes, she realizes there’s a darkness that has settled in and it may be too late to pierce it.
The Osage people are being murdered for inheritance money/land. The white men responsible start to turn on each other too when questions are raised and the FBI comes poking around.
This was a great film. But Marty. Buddy. While I could listen to Lily Gladstone speak for way longer than 3h 26m, this movie didn’t need to be this long. Editing is a helluva thing. Try it sometime.
Penélope Cruz shines as a tertiary character in an otherwise wildly miscast film about the fall before the rise of the Ferrari empire. Enzo Ferrari embodies every company-owner out of his depth, pushing his employees to do the impossible and then is shocked when it goes horribly, tragically wrong.
1 star for Penélope. 1 star for set design. 0 stars for everything else.
Apparently I’m a big fat liar. And I’m devastated.
The greatest revenge story ever told. Edmond Dantès lost all of his good luck in a single day. For years, he plotted his ultimate justice and stopped at nothing to gain fame and fortune in order to tear down each person responsible for his misery.
That’s the novel I read in high school and fell in love with. The [gasp] abridged version. The unabridged version is buried under a thick blanket of descriptions and is a completely different experience. One I found to be, personally, exhausting. I’m so sorry.
Never shall I apologize for the frequency in which I rewatch this masterpiece. Especially when I’m using it as a palate cleanser after reading a disgraceful book based on these characters.
[Staring daggers at you, Death Comes to Pemberley]
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an author lacking sound judgement must be in want of reader rage. Come acquaint yourself with characters who barely resemble their respective namesakes as they fret over a ball cancellation due to the most inconvenient grievance: murder. The only thing worse than the outlandish explanation that comes after the investigation concludes, is the last pitch to left field that implies all Austen novels are canon to one another.
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