Thursday Movie Picks: Period Dramas

A weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves

Since Spike Lee’s opinion of Green Book is all over Twitter these days I can’t help but say that period dramas aren’t my cup of tea and I would have gladly skipped this Thursday Movie Picks week. But since I vowed to not miss a single week this year, here I am talking about period dramas. And since this is the LGBTQ pride month I’m going with LGBTQ films.

Love at Second Sight: Call Me by Your Name (2017)

I still remember the first time I watched Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name as if it were yesterday. It was a winter afternoon as cold as the film left me. As much as I wanted to love the film since it would be representing Italy at the Oscars, and I had heard nothing but praises for it, I felt absolutely nothing other than boredom. This time though, it was a whole different experience as I found myself on the verge crying multiple times, only to burst into tears towards the end.

Thursday Movie Picks: Prequels

A weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves

Let's be honest, prequels are the new Hollywood way to make more money off a worn-out franchise. This, however, doesn't necessarily mean these films have to be bad. In fact, there are plenty of good prequels and those are the ones I'm focusing on for this week's Thursday Movie Picks.

Announcing the "Love at Second Sight" Series

It's happened to all of us, watching a film everybody loves only to have the high expectations crashed by a film that miserably fails to live up to its fame. It surely has happened to me plenty of times. But just because we didn't like a film the first time we watched it, it doesn't mean we won't like it, or love it even, on a second watch, maybe years later.