Welcome back! Well, to some of you, anyway. To the rest of you, glad you decided to stop by and I hope this humble column helps you navigate the stacks of new releases each week. My goal is to point you toward titles of interest and warn you away from those films that seek to do nothing but leech away your time and give you nothing in return.
Full disclosure: I have not seen many of these titles, and what follows are not necessarily reviews, but opinions based upon what I know of the titles I pluck from the new release lists I peruse. The opinions I give based on the new releases are my own, and my recommendations are based on my personal interest. In any case, I hope you enjoy and perhaps find something you like or a title to point me towards.
After the riches that was last week's bounty of Friday the 13th-related titles, this week offers a distinct lack of interesting releases. Don't get me wrong, there are movies to check out, it is the volume that is down. And yes, I do recognize how strange it is to go from last week's pick of the Friday the 13th restart to this week's significantly lighter content; just recognize I am a man of varied tastes, willing to give all sorts of movies a shot.
Confessions of a Shopaholic (also Blu-ray). As for this week's pick, Confessions of a Shopaholic is a delightful movie that works well on a couple of fronts. On one hand, the movie is a great showcase for Isla Fisher's comedic skills. She is as funny as she is adorable, and displays a good sense of timing and a willingness to go the distance for the joke. On the other hand, it touched me as a writer as the central character is a writer and there is a little examination of finding yourself as a writer and connecting with an audience.
At the center of our story is Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher with a suitably upscale and elitist fashionista name for the role), a woman with a love for all things fashionable and a hopeless addiction to the absolute joys of shopping. Rebecca is an up and coming journalist looking to land a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, while suffering through a writing gig with a gardening mag. All is going well until the latest round of bills arrives, coinciding with the loss of her job. From that setup, the film launches into its fish out of water style comedy.
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1 - doug
That sounds like an amazing cartoon collection, especially because I've never heard jones was working on them back then.
Please cite your source or retract the part where you call yourself a writer. writers do research.