Romance
Father of the Bride
FATHER OF THE BRIDE Hard to compete with the 1991 Father of the Bride movie with Steve Martin and Diane Keaton as the parents and Martin Short as the hard-to-understand French Wedding Planner, Franck Eggelhoffer, who sells a $1,200 wedding “ceke.” The 1991 Father of the Bride is silly, funny, and politically incorrect in portraying…
Sold Out
Sold Out What does the wife think of her husband John’s music, his art, his passion – “It’s fine. – but it’s time he grows up.” Not the correct answer, wifey! The other central character in Sold Out, a music-based drama, is Kat, an independent music scout. Kat just got her band a record contract,…
Finding You
FINDING YOU Practically, every cliché in the book is in Finding You, a coming-of-age romance film based on the book, There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones. Even though the film is predictable, utterly moral, bordering on religious, by the end, you still hope for the best for the heroine and the movie star….
Christmas Sail
CHRISTMAS SAIL “Hey, Google – Define Christmas movie.” A movie you watch at Christmas that makes you feel the holiday spirit “Hey, Google – What makes a movie a Christmas movie?” A film that features one of the traditional Christmas themes, such as love, hope, generosity, faith, redemption, family, or fear. Christmas Sail fits all…
Cinderella
CINDERELLA Cinderella, a live-action non-Disney movie, is reimagined in 2021 into an entertaining pop musical designed to empower pre-teen/teenage girls. Teenage boys may enjoy parts of this film, and the main message they receive is “Happy Wife, Happy Life.” This Cinderella still has the Ball, the magical carriage, the mean stepmom and stepsisters, the Prince,…
The Prom
THE PROM Lighten up, people. 2020 is almost over. Vaccine is shipping worldwide, and a new non-divisive, non-narcissistic Administration will soon run the USA. The Prom, a glitzy, bright musical comedy on Netflix, is what is needed right now. A movie about taking a stand (even if not for the right reason) and making things…
Radioactive
RADIOACTIVE Radioactive is a biopic drama about Madame Skłodowska Curie. The film begins in 1895 when she meets her future husband, Pierre Curie, and ends in 1934. Radioactive takes a broad sweep at almost every significant event in Madame Curie’s adult life. It shows some of the science where she discovers two new elements (radium…
The Lost Husband
THE LOST HUSBAND One doesn’t usually see Leslie Bibb in a leading role. I do remember her in small roles in Tag or Trick r Treat, and also in some TV roles such as The League. Most recently, one sees her accompanying her partner Sam Rockwell when he is receiving another movie or TV award. …
The Half of It
THE HALF OF IT The Half of It is an adorable coming-of-age comedy-drama from Netflix about a high school senior dealing with her last year at home and starting to discover herself. Written and directed by Alice Wu, whose first movie Saving Face – done 15-years ago – was her own story about coming out…
The Seagull
THE SEAGULL Brian Dennehy died this week. He was the big, burly, most of the time gruff character actor – I can relate to that – who died in the town I grew up in – New Haven, Connecticut. Therefore, I decided to watch one of his later-in-life films, The Seagull, a drama I would…
Marriage Story
MARRIAGE STORY Marriage Story is a flawlessly written and extraordinarily acted drama about two professional people getting divorced. After the first ten minutes, you understand the people and the marriage. Then, during the next two hours, you go through their divorce. Plot: Nicole Barber (Scarlett Johansson) gets a role in a TV show and wants…
Earthquake Bird
EARTHQUAKE BIRD Earthquake Bird is a psychological drama set in Tokyo 1989. Unfortunately, the most interesting part is hearing the birds chirp after an earthquake. Lucy Fly (Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, The Danish Girl, Tomb Raider) is an American – fluent in Japanese – living and working in Tokyo. During the open credits, the Police…
Yesterday
YESTERDAY Yesterday begins as the lights go out throughout the world. When the lights come on virtually everyone on earth forgets the Beatles. Everyone except the lead in this romantic musical comedy. A world without the Beatles (and a few other things) would be an interesting movie. How is the world different, what type of…
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S Breakfast at Tiffany’s is an iconic American movie, it is very chic, stylish, and stars the perfect Audrey Hepburn. Maybe 50 years ago it was, but this movie contains blatant racism (in the full cut version, Mickey Rooney plays a goofy Japanese landlord with an awful accent and grossly stereotypic features and…
The Cranes Are Flying
THE CRANES ARE FLYING The Cranes Are Flying is an obscure but incredible Soviet/Russian film from 1957. This film won the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) which was the highest prize awarded at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Stealing a phrase from a YouTube commenter where the trailer for this film can be found, “This is…
Always Be My Maybe
ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE An adorable rom-com, with two charming people + Keanu Reeves. Does anything more really need to be said? The charming people are the two leading roles – Ali Wong & Randall Park. How charming is Ali Wong? Even almost eight months pregnant in both of her comedy specials (Baby Cobra in…
Life Itself
LIFE ITSELF If you ever feel like reading a long epic novel but don’t have the right book at hand. Watch this Amazon Studios produced – and a bit sappy drama – Life Itself. Five Chapters tell the story of Life Itself. Each chapter has different characters and a different feel. Chapter 1 is the…
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN The Anomaly: An anomaly is defined as a departure from the normal order, something that is peculiar, irregular or difficult to explain. Discoveries in science, for instance, are sometimes pushed forward by anomalies since anomalies can give you a fresh perspective on something. An anomaly must be what happened…
Cold War
COLD WAR Cold War’s beginning sets an interesting premise for this black & white Polish art-house drama set in the political upheaval period after WWII (1949 to 1964). The interesting part has Wiktor Warski (Tomas Kot), Irena Bielecka (Agata Kulesza), and the Manager Lech Kaczmarek (Borys Szyc) traveling through Poland. Traveling to find young adults…
Clara
CLARA Clara is a small film by a 22-year old first time director Akash Sherman, that tackles a huge subject – searching for intelligent life in the universe. The film attains it’s objective by inserting a slightly mystical romance in the middle. A Canadian romantic sci-fi film shot in and around Toronto. A data driven…
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