Blu-ray Review: Hidden Figures
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (Blu-ray)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is based on the memoir of the same name by British journalist Toby Young. The story chronicles his failed attempted at becoming a successful contributor at Conde Nast Publications’ Vanity Fair magazine. Though the movie follows a similar storyline, both the names of the magazine and people Young […]
Blu-ray Review: On the Road
Based on Jack Kerouac’s novel of the same name, On the Road begins in 1947 New York City, where young writer Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), is living in his mother’s Queens apartment and hanging out with his panic-prone poet friend, Carlo Marx (Tom Sturridge). Together, they’re entranced by the sudden presence of Dean Moriarty (Garrett […]
Blu-ray Review: Mona Lisa Smile
Sony Pictures | 2003 | 117 mins. | Rated PG-13 Mona Lisa Smile is one of those movies you can’t help but watch and wonder what might have been. When I was tempted to refer to the film as Dead Poets Society light, but that would do a real injustice to the 1989 Robin Williams […]