Tag Archives: Rachel McAdams

Margaret aged 11 talks to God (film: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Kelly Fremon Craig, 2023)

2023 has been a good year for films set in 1970. I have no explanation as to why, but it is certain that after ‘The Holdovers’, which is quite well placed in the lists of Academy Awards nominates, now comes … Continue reading

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my best laughs in a while (Film: Game Night – Rachel McAdams, 2018)

I confess that I was waiting for such a movie for quite a while. It’s so long since I have seen a comedy that made me laugh without being stupid, with characters I could care about without falling into melodrama, … Continue reading

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Requiem for True Journalism (Film: Spotlight – Tom McCarthy, 2015)

Director Tom McCarthy authored a very interesting first film in 2003 (The Station Agent) and then his career seemed to go adrift into ‘OK movies’. Now he hits gold with Spotlight which does not differ much in directing style from … Continue reading

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non-passionate (Film: Passion – Brian De Palma, 2012)

I went to this film against all my instincts. I had read already (some of) the bad reviews but I was hoping they were wrong. I so much admire some of the previous works of Brian De Palma (films like … Continue reading

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farewell to the good old fashioned journalism (Film: State of Play – Russell Crowe, 2009)

What a difference three years make when it comes to telling stories and newspapers and journalist. By the time it was made State of the Play took the plot of a BBC series and carried it over the Ocean melding … Continue reading

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