Tag Archives: Hollywood

Film Review: The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Claire Foy)

Posted on December 3, 2018 by odeboyz

There’s nothing so attractive to Hollywood as a money-making franchise. The Scandi-noir novels about the idiot savant Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) has definitely come of age. Their version has all the tropes deemed necessary for a serious money-making film. The … Continue reading →

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Film Review ~ Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf)

Posted on February 20, 2018 by odeboyz

Lady Bird is a coming-of-age film with the angst of mother and daughter extremely well done. The daughter is the underachieving ‘Lady Bird’, who’s renamed herself. She’s stuck in a Catholic school in Sacramento, California. She’s dissatisfied. The school is … Continue reading →

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Hollywood films in China

Posted on November 7, 2017 by odeboyz

Hollywood executives can rattle off the rules for getting a movie approved by Chinese censors: no sex (too unseemly); no ghosts (too spiritual). Among 10 prohibited plot elements are “disrupts the social order” and “jeopardizes social morality.” Time travel is … Continue reading →

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