Tag: Cate Blanchett
REVIEW: Ponyo (2008)
virginiakublawi | Jun 24, 2021 | 2
For one reason or another, the Studio Ghibli movies from 2008 onwards tend to be ones I never saw (The Wind Rises, From Up on Poppy Hill) or that I saw once and didn’t like at all. The latter category pertains to Ponyo (2008), Hayao Miyazaki’s loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid by Hans Chris...
Read MoreREVIEW: Cinderella (2015)
virginiakublawi | Aug 26, 2019 | 0
Last month, Disney released The Lion King, their latest and cash-grabbiest live-action remake. With this in mind, I’d like to take a look back at my personal favorite product of this trend, 2015’s Cinderella. Although the film opened to a strong box office and mostly positive reviews, it has sin...
Read MoreREVIEW: How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
virginiakublawi | Feb 21, 2019 | 0
Usually I have reservations when a sequel, spin-off, or basically any continuation of a movie I liked is announced; however, I could not have been more ready for more after I saw DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon. The first movie introduced a breathtaking world full of interesting characters, a...
Read MoreREVIEW: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
virginiakublawi | Sep 29, 2018 | 0
“There’s a clock in the walls. We don’t know what it does, except… something horrible.” Last Friday, Universal released The House with a Clock in Its Walls, based on the 1973 John Bellairs children’s mystery novel of the same name. I had never read or heard of the book, but t...
Read MoreRotten Tomatoes and the Standards of Criticism
AlexGherzo | Aug 28, 2018 | 0
Rotten Tomatoes is once again in the news, this time because it is revamping its criteria for determining which critics will be included in the site’s much-cited Tomatometer. The focus will now be on getting “innovative thinkers and commentators who have seized on new platforms, developed their ...
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