Friday, April 14, 2023

Alexa Chung



Author: M. R. James

 

Montague Rhodes James OM FBA was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James

Teresa Stewart

 

ph: Sarah Moon

A day in the life, Nov 28, 2020

 

A day in the life, Nov 28, 2020, Regensburg by night

Du Juan

 

ph: Ziqian Wang

Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl (2019)

 

A Jewish family had to flee from the Nazis from Berlin. First, they flee to Zurich. From there it goes to Paris and finally to London.Well-made, but a bit frumpy adaptation of the well-loved book by Judith Kerr is endearing with a good cast and excellent period detail.


 

Fan Bingbing

 

ph: Charles Guo

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Prime Time (2021)

 

On New Year's Eve 1999, an armed man enters a TV studio during a broadcast, takes the host hostage and makes one demand: to give a message live on air.

Above-average TV closed-room drama is suspenseful and profits from good performances. 


 

Sharon van der Knaap


 

ph: Patrick Demarchelier

New Stuff: Henry Threadgill Zooid


 

Nyaueth Riam & Vaughan Ollier

 

ph: David Vail

My Favorite Brunette (1947)

 

Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, tells reporters how he got there.

Light-weighted, silly, but basically entertaining spoof of a Noir plot keeps the jokes coming, but is hardly a convincing parody of the genre.  

Halliwell*: "Pretty fair star vehicle which half-heartedly spoofs Farewell My Lovely."

Maltin***: "Better-than-usual Hope nonsense...Two very funny surprise cameos at beginning and end of film."