Tag: rachelroberts

Notes on Streaming: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, Bring Your Own Preconceptions

A new version of Picnic at Hanging Rock takes a markedly different approach to the material, resulting in a pungent series that endeavors to peer more closely into the souls of its characters. First published in 1967, Joan Lindsay's novel...

AnarchyVision: Talking G.I. JOE: RETALIATION, THE HOST, and Easter/Passover Movies

While I had to skip a press screening of the latest in the G.I. Joe franchise because of this week's "Seder" thing, I ended up paying good money to see The Rock fight some bumblebees (really, it was kind of...

Review: THE HOST Makes Me Hate Cinema

It's rare that I see a film as patently awful as The Host. I mean, sure, I've stomached the likes of Identity Thief in the last few months, but this latest "film" from the "mind" of Twilight "author" Stephenie Meyer...