Movies – Full Listing
Hearts Beat Loud
HEARTS BEAT LOUD Hearts Beat Loud is a wonderful, heartwarming movie that quickly soared to the top of my favorite heartwarming Indie movie list. Frank – good name – (Nick Offerman, Parks and Recreations, The Little Hours) and his daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons, Transparent, Dope), during the last summer before Sam leaves home to attend…
A Star is Born
A STAR IS BORN The fourth remake of A Star is Born starts out with a bang. The introduction of Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) at one of his live concerts, shot with handheld cameras, is excellent. The photo below is during the filming at a concert in England. Bradley Cooper plays the guitar during the…
Eye of the Needle
EYE OF THE NEEDLE After a Whidbey Island, Washington State beach fire on a cold, clear November day, the Eye of the Needle was intriguing enough WWII movie that only one of the six people watching fell asleep. Had to rewatch it the next day when there was no laughing, talking or spouting sarcasm to…
Kahaani
KAHAANI Complexion? “Wheatish.” Would you or any of your friends use wheatish to describe a person – no – which is one of the reasons to watch an International film, so you experience things that are not wholly American. Kahaani was filmed in Kolkata, India, mainly on the streets of Kolkata during the colorful festival…
Black Panther
BLACK PANTHER Being superficial, one could say that the T’Challa / Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) is just like Batman or Ironman – a man wearing a high tech suit – but unlike Batman or Ironman, Black Panther is also on a performance-enhancing substance, the “heart-shaped herb”, allowing him to be a Superhero and rule…
- 2018
- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
gifted
GIFTED The brother Frank (Chris Evans, Captain America) gets legal custody of his sister’s 1-year old daughter Mary (McKenna Grace) after the sister dies by suicide. All is good for Frank & Mary in Florida until the first grade teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate) realizes Mary is gifted. The gift of math runs in the family…
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) Written and directed by Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) who, in this case, writes the type of movie I call, “A couple of days in the life of….” In this case, the three children of Harold Meyerowitz (Dustin Hoffman) – a retire Bard College art professor, who is always bitter…
Avengers: Infinity War
AVENGERS: INFINITY WARS Marvel Cinematic Universe 101: Greek Mythology centering on the twelve gods that live on Mt. Olympus (Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Apollo, Aries, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hephaistos, Hermes, and Poseidon) was first written down in 700 BC by the ancient Greeks based on stories told since 1,900 BC (Bronze Age). Ironman, Spiderman,…
- 2018
- Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
Trick r Treat
TRICK ‘R TREAT Break the Halloween traditions in Warren Valley, Ohio and a little Ghoul will find you and your Trick r’ Treat might be death/mutilation. This town also has a Halloween festival and parade, a pack of Werewolves dressing as hungry, horny hotties (Anna Paquin is the runt of the litter), a trick or…
Daredevil
DAREDEVIL Faith is questioned and needed in Season 3 of Daredevil, a web TV series created for Netflix. At the conclusion of Season 2 Matt Murdock / Daredevil’s (Charlie Cox) world and body are pretty much in free fall. Having nothing – and nowhere to go – this former Catholic orphan boy returns to the…
- 2018
- Marvel Comics, Sci-Fi
Disobedience
DISOBEDIENCE In Disobedience, it takes a while to understand the real problem plaguing this “once we were best friends” trio, but when you get there, the movie beautifully and heartbreakingly intertwines faith in God (“Word Hashem [God] is my life”), freedom, and choice. Rachel Weisz (The Lobster) as Ronit, estranged from her Rabbi father’s Othodox…
Three Identical Strangers
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS Triplets born in 1961, are put up for adoption, It was just another adoption in New York City, or was it? The 6-month old triplets were separated and given to three different families. Why did they do that, how could they do that? The infants names were Bobby, David & Eddy,…
- 2018
- Documentary
Frances Ha
FRANCES HA Frances Ha shows the beginnings of Greta Gerwig, future writer and Director of the Oscar-nominated 2017 Lady Bird. This is the second movie she co-wrote with Director – and partner beginning in 2011 – Noah Baumbach. For this movie they wrote “mumblecore,” usually low-budget independent films characterized by naturalistic acting and dialogue and…
Rocketmen
ROCKETMEN A bunch of your slightly more talented friends get together, have a few drinks, and decide to start a Seattle web series Rocketmen – using Kickstarter money. That is the “feel” – and probably what really happened – to get this seven, 11-minute episode web series going (2014-2016), then a movie of the seven…
About Time
ABOUT TIME About Time is about time travel, where the men in this English family can go backward in their own timeline, even better than Google Maps. Used at first to “get the girl” (you know, relive the moment and not say all those stupid things to the girl you just met) but then continues…
- 2013
- Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction