La La Land (Another take!)

La La Land (Another take!)

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...
La La Land (Another take!)

La La Land

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...
The Help

The Help

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...