Tag Archives: Emma Stone

Fair disclosure: I am not a tennis aficionado. Although I did know about the high stakes exhibition game between Women’s Champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and former ace Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), the details and wider context of the ...

I sometimes think I come across as a jaded critic, seemingly more interested in delivering scabrous opinions than celebrating the best cinema has to offer. Today’s review I use as counter evidence, because I can do nothing but sing the ...

Parody films of this nature are like a blanket and a cup of tea on a cold day. Pure comfort. Popstar was never going to break the mold, say anything particularly new or incisive, or be the next big thing ...

In Pan, recently released in cinemas worldwide, Rooney Mara’s casting as the Native American Tiger Lilly has left audiences baffled. Could the studio possibly have chosen a whiter white girl to portray a Native American character? And why would they ...

Sitting in the darkened cinema watching Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), I continued to have the same thought rolling through my mind over and over again: ‘This is brilliant.’ With each new plot twist my smile widened. I ...

My teenage years are sadly long behind me, but that does not mean that I can’t appreciate a well-crafted teen movie. Teen movies have a bad reputation and it is true that many of them are soulless, crude, sappy, or ...