Fashion Fling – A Bigger Splash, Starring Tilda Swinton & Dior
by Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Tilda Swinton is a performance artist, model, and fashion icon, and an actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. Her latest, A Bigger Splash, definitely falls into the arthouse category – and its artistry is everywhere right down to the clothes on her back. Here’s the skinny: While vacationing…
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE Review — Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-fi, Mystery all in One
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson From the stylistic font on the poster of 10 Cloverfield Lane to the name J.J. Abrams listed as a producer, you should have a pretty good guess that you’re in for a Hitchcockian thriller of epic proportions. The suspenseful story harkens back to the psychological mind-game thrillers of the 1950s and…
HAIL CAESAR Review — Classic Coen Kookiness
By Staci Layne Wilson and James Mandell @StaciWilson The Coen Brothers have done it again – made an ensemble crime caper comedy that’s pure tinsel town gold. Hail, Caesar! harkens back to Joel and Ethan’s salad days of the 90s, bringing to mind The Hudsucker Proxy and Barton Fink (and maybe a note of O Brother…
DEADPOOL Review — It's Alive With Anti-Super Hero Humor
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Even though we share a last name, I knew practically nothing about Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool, before stepping into the theater to watch his eponymous movie. I’m just not a superhero kinda gal – in fact, I had to ask whether the flick is based on a classic comic character,…
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Review — Monster Mash Up
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson The Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she grapples with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage, in the gentry society of the British Regency as the Napoleonic Wars rage in the background. Elizabeth’s family has fallen on hard times, and she…
Fashion Fling – David Bowie Style Lives On!
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Full disclosure – I’m a huge David Bowie fan. I, along with the world, was sad to learn that “The Man Who Fell to Earth” has now left it. And as he did in life, never leaving anything less than polished to perfection, he orchestrated every detail of his departure. “There’s…
Top Ten Movies of 2015 — Staci Layne Wilson
By Staci Layne Wilson When you see as many movies as I do a year – or even per week – it’s nearly impossible to make a Top Ten Movies list. I mean, how can you pit Inside Out against The Hateful 8? Is it fair to compare Amy to Carol? Can’t be done. My criteria…
STANDOFF Review — Sleeper Hit Worthy?
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson When 12-year-old Bird (Ella Ballentine) attends a funeral, she has no idea it might wind up being her own… Standoff hits the ground running as the hapless little girl, armed only with her camera, comes face-to-mask with an anonymous assassin (Laurence Fishburne) who chases her into the woods, and into…
45 YEARS Review — Glacial, in a Majestic Sort of Way
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson An elderly couple living in a small picturesque town, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband Geoff (Tom Courtenay) are retired and they don’t lead very exciting lives – but they are planning a big party to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. So perhaps that’ll add a touch of zing, at…
THE BIG SHORT Review — Three Expert Takes
https://youtu.be/5Zhy1NQf2NM Editor’s Note: I enjoyed this film so much I’m running three different takes on it. Scroll down to find another by faithful AtHomeInHollywood critics Staci Layne Wilson and James Mandell (who not at all coincidentally shares my last name.) He had to sleep with the Editor in Chief to get his review posted, but Staci did…
