Movie review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Hello! And welcome to one of the most painful reviews I’ve ever written. This is Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. IMDb summary: The second installment of the “Fantastic Beasts” series set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World featuring the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander. Writing J.K.Rowling wrote the screenplay for the second film: she started

Movie review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Hello! I’m still playing catch up with the summer movies, so let’s review a picture that some people (small numbers of them as it tanked at the box office) saw last month. It’s King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword. IMDb summary: Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys

5 ideas about a movie: Genius

Hello! Before Star Trek Beyond, Jason Bourne, and Ghostbusters all roll into theaters, let’s review a smaller film – a historical British drama – Genius. IMDb summary: A chronicle of Max Perkins’s time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. I have told you

Anna Karenina: the book + the movie

Good morning! Welcome to my first ever book v. movie comparison! Yesterday I’ve finally finished Anna Karenina by XIX century Russian author Leo Tolstoy. This famous novel has been on my radar for a very long time but only last week I actually found time to read it. (My spring break was last week –