About Fate (2022) - Adapting Russian stories to reflect the world we live in today

 

After watching Hotel For the Holidays I decided I needed more Madelaine Petsch and followed it up with About Fate, a New Year's movie starring another of my favorite actresses, Emma Roberts. It allegedly had a theatrical release in September 2022 with nearly all of its limited box office coming from Russia (so much for the sanctions) but the main purpose of the production was to provide streaming content, indeed I saw it on Amazon Prime.

более подробно об этом plus one or two spoilers after the jump...

Hotel For the Holidays (2022) - Amazon checks in on the Christmas movie craze

 It is after Christmas now but I didn't have time to watch this until Christmas Day itself. As an enthusiast of Madelaine Petsch, the preeminent star of the CW's "Riverdale", I had this movie circled as soon as I heard about it. Petsch stars as Georgia, an ambitious and industrious hotel manager  who finds herself at the center of a love triangle, torn between the lovelorn hotel chef and a wealthy, smooth-talking foreign prince. You will never be able to guess who eventually wins her heart.

Some hints after the jump?