This film is time well spent, and as the tag-line goes, "The Dish and The Spoon will run away with your heart!" Not to worry though, the brief sadness that follows is still pretty sweet and should leave you with a smile. In fact, so lulled was I by the saccharine antics of these two lost souls filling the void in each others hearts, that I was a little off guard when the other shoe hit the floor. The cerebral soundtrack is comforting and many of the scenes were so beautiful, I was tempted to take pictures of my TV. Sometimes, not a lot going on is just the right amount to entertain. If Gretta's pain fuels the almost non-existant plot, then Olly's Dylanesque hair and waifish charm can surely heal the show. In a bit of a role reversal it's Olly who says, “You won't hurt me, will you?" What follows is a random series of unlikely events and a voyeuristic pleasure cruise through their developing relationship. Angry and out of sorts, she inadvertently hooks up with a wayward British teenager played by Olly Alexander. Our leading lady, an emotionally taxed Rose, played by Gretta Gerwig, has just left her unfaithful husband. The setting is a boarded-up off-season beach town on the blustery east coast. This is just the kind of indie feel-good love story that I love to love. Find them on Facebook at Opera House Video. Each takes turns writing the movie review. Tiffany Howard and Jim Dandy co-own Opera House Video, an independent video rental store in downtown Belfast featuring an extensive collection of new releases, foreign films, documentaries, classics and television series. Part biography, part travelogue, this is an engaging and unusual narrative."įor store updates, specials, new releases, and ridiculous stuff, follow hello hello on /hellohellobooks. Helena, from its discovery in 1502 by Portuguese explorers through British occupation to 1989, when Blackburn visited St. Interwoven with this chronicle, the author presents the history of St. British author Blackburn offers an interesting account of Napoleon's difficult existence on this windy, rainy, rat-infested island, as he and his servants strove to maintain the fiction that he remained a powerful emperor. Helena is an island, ten-and-one-half miles long and six miles wide, located in the middle of the South Atlantic, on which Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in exile. Here's what Publishers Weekly said about The Emperor's Last Island when it was published in 1992: "Described by the author as a place 'further away from anywhere than anywhere else in the world,' St. If you're a sucker for islands and extremely well-written tales of exile, as I am, this contemporary nonfiction classic is for you: Julia Blackburn's The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. To find more picks and reads: /hellohellobooks Twitter: Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. She is a reader, a maker, and a collector of fine-point pens and terrible jokes. Lacy Simons is the owner and operator of hello hello books, which opened in August 2011 adjacent to Rock City Cafe, in Rockland. Helena, The Dish and the Spoon and Ruthie Foster's Let It Burn. This month features: The Emporor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Killer Piks is a monthly review of books, movies, and music by people who are obsessed with books, movies and music.
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