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5 Movies Starring the Adorable Actress

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Lily Collins, the petite, lovely actress has been known for some brilliant performances right from the start of her career appearing in movies like Growing Pains, Priest, The English Teacher, To the Bone; and now for her latest Netflix series Emily in Paris.

Crowned as International model of the Year (2007) by Spain’s Glamour magazine, this British-American actress is quite the star.

Many say she resembles Audrey Hepburn with the “eyebrows of Liam Gallagher, and has a face perfect for cinema”.As the beautiful actress turns 32, here are her top 5 must-watch movies:

Mirror Mirror: Portraying beautifully the character of Snow White alongside Julia Roberts in the adaptation of the fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Lily was adorable and sensational. She channelized innocence and the vulnerability of the character exceptionally well.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile: Starring opposite Zac Efron, Lily’s performance as the suspicious girlfriend of Ted Bundy was highly appreciated. The movie directed by Joe Berlinger, though revolved around dramatisation of Bundy’s trial, emphasized way more on Lily’s screen character’s story.

Stuck in Love: Lily dazzles in this American romantic comedy movie. Her on-screen character is a cynical college goer, leading a carefree life; and she is excellent in bringing out the vivacious, lively nature infusing an infectious energy and relatability.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones: Essaying the role of a shadow hunter in the adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s fantasy novel of the same name, Lily does an incredible job of delivering a power-packed performance. She shines in the movie as a demon slayer who is born with angelic blood.

The Blind Side: Lily plays the on-screen daughter of Sandra Bullock in this American biographical sports drama. This movie was touching and procured the highest-rated film spot in IMDb.

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Mank Movie Review: A Depressed Hollywood That Created a Masterpiece Called Citizen Kane

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Mank

Cast: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins

Director: David Fincher

David Fincher – known for his psychological thrillers like Zodiac, Gone Girl and Panic Room, apart from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button outside this genre – directs this time an extremely nostalgic film, Mank. About a 1930s Hollywood living in the frightening times of World War II and the debilitating depression, Fincher’s creation from a screenplay by his father, Jack (written a long time ago) is a back-and-forth narration of a tinsel town gingerly stepping from a world of silent cinema into one of cacophonous sounds. In a way, Mank reminded me of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, which though touted as a story of Roman Polanski’s wife Sharon Tate, was mostly about the coming of television and the jitters it caused to theatres.

Coincidentally, the cinema industry today is in disarray as well, given the destructive Coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of men and women working in showbiz have lost their livelihoods, and in Mank, we see Louis Mayer (played by Arliss Howard) of MGM pleading with his employees to take a pay cut. I do not want to lay off any one of you, he says, and offers to restore their full salaries in eight weeks. It will pass in no time, he adds to cheering workers.

Things are not as easy or simple today, but, well, Mank actually is about how Herman J. Mankiewicz aka Mank (Gary Oldman) wrote the script for a movie that is considered the ultimate in cinema – Citizen Kane. Helmed by Orson Welles (Tom Burke gets just a cameo), it is even today a Bible of sorts for writers and directors. However, despite several Oscar nominations, it won just a single trophy, Best Original Screenplay that was shared by Mank and Welles.

A true ode to a Hollywood that once was with gigantic studios and their heads, who were truly mughuls of cinema, Mank, now streaming on Netflix, is almost art in black and white, and its story nudges us towards a tight deadline which Mank is given to write Citizen Kane. With his leg in plaster after an automobile accident and battling a drinking problem, Mank dictates the script to his secretary, Rita Alexander (Lilly Collins) – and she has a hell-of-a-time getting the writer to stay off booze and, well, write!

This is the crux of the plot which is enriched by a whole lot of Hollywood happenings – bickering, denial of credits to writers (don’t we know that in India) and rivalries between studios. Interspersed into all this is the keenly fought American presidential elections (Mank gets one more point here having opened at a time when we saw the big fight between Biden and Trump).

Attractively photographed and impressively mounted, Mank also stands out for Oldman’s brilliant piece of performance. He is entirely convincing, and his callous arrogance costs him just about everything. He is irreverent to the core, and so damn undisciplined. Would anyone, anyone tolerate this today? Hollywood was actually kind to him.

However, Mank will appeal only to a niche set of viewers; those who have some idea who Mayer was or, for instance, Irving Thalberg. And very, very few would have even heard of Mank.

Rating: 4/5

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