The Cinematic Review-verse

Good evening, all. For today’s Cinematic Review-Verse post, I’m discussing Finding Emily  starring Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn . Photo of ‘Finding Emily’ poster taken at AMC Garden State 16. Taken by William Edward Beavers, V. In Finding Emily , an English twentysomething named Owen, played by Fearn, was working as a sound engineer at a student union bar when he encountered a charming girl named Emily dressed in a fairy costume. Though they laughed and danced and Emily gave him her number, Owen couldn’t reach her and began a bizarre quest to reconnect with her, with some assistance by American psychology student Emily Raine, played by Rice. Spike Fearn as Owen, and Angourie Rice as Emily Raine in ‘Finding Emily.’ Courtesy of Focus Features and IMDb.com. It was actually a pretty cute movie. It was predictable that in trying to solve this quest, Owen and Emily fell in love. But it was great how he was able to make her laugh and believe in love again after falling out with a guy n...

When I saw Mean Girls (2024) on Thursday night the 11th of January, I was enthralled by the musical numbers and the energy in the main teen cast. And though some of the original film's stuff got rehashed in a good way along with the music, it should've cut down on the old humor after a while and put in some new material. The plot's pretty much the same as the original film: After years of homeschooling in Africa, Cady Heron , played by Angourie Rice , who played Betty Brant in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man films,   transfers to North Shore High School  in America. But it's still a jungle adventure and misadventure when she must outwit the school's unscrupulous social hierarchy, dominated by  The Plastics trio clique, led by Regina George , played by Reneé Rapp, who is beautiful yet barbaric. She gets help and guidance in the form of Janis 'Imi'ike and Damian Hubbard , played by Auli'i Cravalho from Moana and Jaquel Spivey , respectively.   How to c...