Remember a time before YA put children in mortal peril to protect their families, when all kids wanted to do was have fun with no parents allowed? Welcome to the 90s and specifically, Camp Nowhere… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Camp Nowhere (1994)
A Country music singer, a Broadway star and Jerry Bruckheimer walk into a bar… It’s such a bizarre set-up that we can’t even think of a punchline, but that is because this is no joke: this is Coyote Ugly. The story of Violet Sanford, an aspiring song-writer from New Jersey who moves to New York… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Coyote Ugly (2000)
The screenwriter Joe Eszterhas claims he once sold a screenplay for a film with the pitch: “It’s Jaws, with paws!”. We like to imagine a similar pitch took place at Walt Disney studios viz: “It’s the UN, with mice!”. This pretty much sums up the premise of 1977’s The Rescuers, a tale of two mice… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: The Rescuers (1977)
What’s not to love about William Wyler’s 1966 crime caper? A sharp script, evenly matched female and male leads, and more Givenchy than you could shake a designer stick at – all in a delightfully stylised vision of 1960s Paris! Audrey Hepburn plays Nicole, the doting daughter of Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith), a man mostly… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: How to Steal a Million (1966)
Hi! Welcome to the Cinema Sisters blog. We’re Alex and Emily, two cinema-loving sisters inviting you to share in our movie musings, filmic fancies and cerebrations on the silver-screen. We’ve been watching films together for nearly three decades and are never short of opinions on the subject. Taking different approaches to what makes a film… Read More Welcome to the Cinema Sisters Movie Blog
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