by Robert Suttle | Feb 11, 2017 | ★★★★★★☆
Writer/Director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land is many things – charming, fun, sweet, a refreshing change from most of the movie fare these days, a love letter to old Hollywood and to the movies themselves, etc, but there is one thing it is not – a...
by Rob Webster | Dec 31, 2016 | ★★★★★☆☆
La La Land is an earnest musical, an imperfect but memorable love story homage to song and dance films of yore. Mia (played by Emma Stone) is a frustrated actress, facing rejection after rejection as she pursues her dreams, when she meets moody Sebastian (Ryan...
by Rob Webster | Aug 15, 2011 | ★★★★★★☆
The Help, based on the book by Katheryn Stockett, is an unusually good adaption of a very good book. The story, set in the early 60’s, is about a white woman (Skeeter, played by Emma Stone) in Jackson, Mississippi, who decides to write about something that...
