by Jayme Foltz | Nov 12, 2020 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
From jumping off trains to using jujitsu against a hired killer, Enola Holmes is a nonstop period film filled with comedy, action and fourth-wall-breaking. Based on the Young Adult series The Enola Holmes Mysteries by Nancy Springer, the film adapts the plot of the first book, The Case of the Missing Marquess. The Netflix film was directed by Harry Bradbeer, written by Jack Thorne and stars Millie Bobby Brown as the positively witty Enola Holmes. Enola wakes on her 16th birthday to find her mother (Helen Bonham Carter) missing, which causes her to reunite with her estranged older brothers, Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin). Once Mycroft observes the environment of Enola’s upbringing and her behavior, he becomes determined to send Enola to boarding school. While she attempts to evade her brothers, Enola sets off to find her mother. During her journey to London, she crosses paths with Viscount Tewkesbury and finds herself involved in a second mystery. Who is trying to kill the young Viscount and why? Enola Holmes is a young teen that defies the 19th-century societal norms of women. Instead of teaching embroidery, her mother taught her about literature and science. Enola was raised to be independent. After all, Enola spelled backward is “alone.” She is a clever, yet humorous protagonist with a mind smart enough to rival Sherlock. With Brown’s charming performance and Enola’s constant 4th wall-breaking asides, Enola Holmes is quite enjoyable for family movie night. The story centers on themes of feminism and social activism. A big yet underlying part of the plot is the women’s suffrage movement and their attempt to...
by Crystal Davis | Mar 30, 2012 | News Slider
You would think walking in to a Green Hills movie theater at 10:25 on a Sunday night that it would be empty. Not that night! It was full! Friends with Kids, the new movie with several members of the Bridesmaids cast, had minimal promotion in Nashville, but apparently it was a smash. Newcomer Jennifer Westfeldt and Jason Scott find themselves the only single people in a group of close-knit friends. The movie addresses that sensitive time of people’s lives when they make the transition between life without major responsibilities to life with families and kids and all that comes after. Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm and Chris O’Dowd round out the cast and provide most of the comic relief. Westfeldt and Scott play best friends who decide they want to have kids after their close friends have children and embrace married life. The movie addresses the good times and the rough times throughout the journey of Westfeldt and Scott having a child and raising it in a divorced-parent-like style. It gives some alternative views of how to raise a family in a non-traditional lifestyle. It’s not something most people are familiar with coming out of a Christian school, but it has become more and more the norm in the last couple of generations. This R-rated film includes some scenes with semi-censored sexual activities, which may be offensive to some people. There’s an abundance of foul language, not appropriate for a younger audience. I think all of these situations are intended to be funny and thought provoking; the director tries to produce a bigger picture–a romantic comedy wrapped up in the...
by Chris Shappley | Jun 22, 2010 | Opinion
For more than a decade Disney and Pixar have enchanted the world with some of the best animation in the history of cinema. After teaming up for 11 films to date, they have only misfired once — that being the incredibly generic Cars. But for the most part, Pixar has had the ability to deliver classic after classic on an annual basis. This has never been more clear than with their most recent film Toy Story 3. Unlike Toy Story 2, the third one doesn’t pick up where the previous one left off. We are immediately thrust into a world very different from the previous films. Andy is getting ready for college and Woody, Buzz and the other toys are dealing with a reality where they aren’t played with anymore. And after a couple of instances of bad luck they find themselves donated to Sunnyside Day Care. At first, this new location seems as though it will be a new start for the toys. They will have kids wanting to play with them all day every day. But when they are relocated to a room with kids much too young to be playing with them, their new home becomes one of terror. Thus sets the plot of trying to escape Sunnyside and make it back to Andy’s house before Andy leaves for college. Pixar succeeds where many other animation studios fail. Toy Story 3 introduces several new characters with their individual quirks and personalities. These characters have a certain depth that may be lost on some of the younger viewers, but makes the experience worthwhile for the older kids like myself who...
