When Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle hit cinemas in late 2017 it became an unlikely box-office hit; after all, previous reboots of 80s/90s favourites hadn’t exactly gone down well. Audiences were won over by this fresh take, that made subtle reference to the original without getting bogged down in fan-service. It was inevitable that a… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
To say that Avatar’s release back in 2009 was anything other than a phenomenon would be a massive understatement. The film was not only a huge box office success (Avengers: Endgame overtook it last year as the highest grossing film of all time, but that’s without taking inflation into account), it pushed the boundaries of… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Avatar (2009)
“One morning I shot and elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I don’t know”. If you’re a fan of witty wordplay with a dash of old-school Hollywood glamour, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve seen this Marx Brother’s classic, but we’re pleased… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Animal Crackers (1930)
The 2018 recipient of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Free Solo follows Alex Honnold, as he puts himself in a frankly ludicrous amount of danger to become the first person ever to free solo (for the uninitiated, that’s climbing on his own without a rope) the 3,000ft face of El Capitan in Yosemite… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Free Solo (2018)
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)
In his first big screen outing, Indiana Jones (bespectacled archaeology professor by day, rugged tomb raider by… different day), must track down the legendary Ark of the Covenant before those pesky Nazi’s can get their hands on it. It goes without saying that this movie is a Classic with a capital C: Classic Action! Classic… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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)
In Pin Cushion, Joanna Scanlon and Lily Mewmark star as mother and daughter misfits Lyn and Iona. The pair have high hopes as they move to a new town for a fresh start, but soon fall foul of nasty neighbours and vicious school ground bullies. The once inseparable pair find their relationship rocked by lies… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Pin Cushion (2017)
Kelvin Harrison Jr. stars as the titular Luce, a high-school senior who, at the age of seven, was adopted from war-torn Eritrea and brought to America by parents Amy and Peter (Naomi Harris and Tim Roth). Now a star athlete and soon-to-be Valedictorian, Luce appears to be the very embodiment of the American Dream, until… Read More What We’re Watching on Lockdown: Luce (2019)
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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