Over the weekend, I popped over to the IFC Center in the West Village to catch Ethan Hawke’s new movie Born to Be Blue. In it, he plays jazz legend Chet Baker, the infamous 1960s trumpeter and singer with a not-so-guilty pleasure: Shooting heroin (“It makes me happy,” he describes.) The film is absolutely remarkable and Ethan Hawke… Read more »
OK: I’m super behind on movies right now (seriously, there are so many good ones!), but I’m really glad I prioritized Brooklyn out of the entire bunch. The movie is based on the 2010 book by Colm Toibin — it’s the story of Ellis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant torn between love in 1950s Brooklyn and her life back… Read more »
Over the past week, I’ve watched two Cary Grant films that I had never seen before: To Catch a Thief and Arsenic and Old Lace. I didn’t intend to have such a Cary Grant-themed week — but after watching one (and remembering how much I loved North by Northwest and Charade and Vertigo), it got me researching…and off to the video store I… Read more »
Happy Friday, my darling readers! What do you have planned for the next couple of days off? I’m going to watch a screening of To Catch a Thief with Grace Kelly and Cary Grant — a classic! Here, to get your weekend started right, a few happy posts from around the web: A deleted Friends scene. Love this… Read more »
Who has big plans to see Jurassic World when it opens tomorrow night? I’m seeing it with friends next weekend — I can’t wait! There are so many things to look forward to about the film: 1) Chris Pratt. I mean, if you have to replace Sam Neill, you might as well do it with someone… Read more »
