My Ramblings

  Really, let them!   When you see Meryl Streep on the cover of the movie, you don’t think twice, and after her performance in Big Little Lies , I was craving that cinematic magic. Netflix also gets that hence suggest me all her movies; what would we do without the clever algorithm? Anywho, the movie has a decent cast, Meryl Streep , as mentioned many times already, Candice Bergen of Miss Congeniality fame, and Brad Pitt’s favorite Dianne Wiest . These happen to be Alice Hughes (Ms. Streep), old friends, reconnecting after years. The cast also includes Lucas Hedges , who played as a supporting nephew, Tyler, and Gemma Chan , as Karen, her new agent. So the story revolves around a renowned New York-based author Alice, who has to go and collect her British Award. Now, Alice has some reservations against flying, so her over ambitious agent suggests to sail. Her old friends Roberta (Bergen) and Susan (Wiest) had their own sets of thoughts running in heads for this sud...

  365 days, 524 recipes  – Bon Appetite!! It is tough to find a movie these days that come up to expectation (no, I am not “very” picky, maybe…); sister understand my pain and recommended to watch Julie & Julia. After downloading three more options, just in case, we settled for a movie night with hopes and expectations.   So the movie is about Julia Child and Julie Powell, both come from different times. Julia Child, played by ever, so genius and chameleon-like actor, Meryl Streep and Amy Adams plays Julie Powell, a struggling secretary at public office, living above a pizza shop in Queens, NewYork. The movie keeps switching between two eras, 1960 and 2002 and narrates the struggles of both the women. Nora Ephron has given us many wonderful movies, and sadly this was the last before her demise. She brings two real-life stories, "My Life In France" written by Julia Child, and "My Year of Cooking Dangerously" by Julie Powell. While Julia is bored...