Chemical Hearts, 2020. Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Austin Abrams, Lili Reinhart, Sarah Jones, Kara Young, Coral Peña and C.J. Hoff. SYNOPSIS: The editor of a high school newspaper bonds with a new student who was injured in an accident. There’s no shortage of movies about the awkwardness of first love. Some douse the entire […]
Movie Review – Chemical Hearts (2020)
Chemical Hearts, 2020. Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Austin Abrams, Lili Reinhart, Sarah Jones, Adhir Kalyan, Kara Young, Coral Peña, and C.J. Hoff. SYNOPSIS: A high school transfer student finds a new passion when she begins to work on the school’s newspaper. There’s a recurring motif across Chemical Hearts, framing emotions as biological functions and chemical […]
Movie Review – Chemical Hearts (2020)
Chemical Hearts, 2020. Written and Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams, Sarah Jones, Bruce Altman, Adhir Kalyan, Coral Peña, Shannon Maree Walsh, Kara Young, Meg Gibson, C.J. Hoff, Jon Lemmon, and J.J. Pyle. SYNOPSIS: A high school transfer student finds a new passion when she begins to work on the school’s newspaper. […]
Austin Abrams and Lili Reinhart star in trailer for Chemical Hearts
Amazon Prime has revealed a poster and trailer for Chemical Hearts, ahead of its release next month. Directed by Richard Tanne, the romantic drama is based on Krystal Sutherlands’s 2019 novel Our Chemical Hearts and stars Austin Abrams as Henry, a teenager who falls in love with the mysterious new transfer student (Lili Reinhart) as […]
Second Opinion – Southside with You (2016)
Southside with You, 2016. Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway and Phillip Edward Van Lear. SYNOPSIS: On a summer’s day in 1989, Barack Obama took Michelle Robinson on what turned out to be their first date across Chicago’s South Side. One that included an art exhibition, live music, a […]
Movie Review – Southside with You (2016)
Southside With You, 2016. Directed by Richard Tanne. Starring Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: An invitation to a community meeting turns into a first date for Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson. Regardless of logic, there’s always a disconnect that exists between figures of influence and the idea that they were once regular people, with regular lives. Southside with […]