Let's Talk Movies #35 – Sparrows and Panthers and Dinosaurs…Oh My!

[smurfy]

I saw 'Black Panther'. I really loved it, a great ride, popcorn movie. A great cast (so many beautiful people - both men and women). The art work of the movie was gorgeous - just a visual feast. And so many excellent female parts - as equals. Kings's sister is the Q character from James Bond. I enjoyed the story line. A lot was crammed in, but enjoyed the story. I don't know much of the Marvel universe. And awesome to see at least 3/4 of audience stay in their seats until they very very end of the credits. I have only seen the Iron Man movies and Dr Strange.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I saw Call Me By Your Name and Three Billboards on the plane.

Im gay so i was VERY curious to see Call me by your name... I was kinda like bleh... I dont think Armie and Timothy developed much of a romance throughout this storyline.... And Armie's character wasnt likable if you ask me.

But my friends keep telling me its about the kids first crush/love... and how stuff like this almost never works... just your first experience...

Question: It was hard to hear the film.. So did his Dad know they were having a relationship then the whole time and he was way cool about it yes? AND was the Dad ALSO gay???? I couldn't tell by what he was saying... I think he may have been gay too???

Three billboards.... hmmm.. SO MANY f words, c words, its hard for me to get into a movie when the screenwriter can't write one sentence with no less than 7 cuss words.. I find it kinda disturbing..... And didnt get the ending of this movie at all???? So they were driving to idaho to MAYBE kill someone that MAY HAVE been involved in the murder? And maybe they stopped driving and aborted???? STRANGE ending.....

To me it seems like the writer couldn't think of an ending so thats what he/she wrote.....

 

[cocotaffy]

Finally watched Lady Bird. After reading many different reviews on this forum, I thought I wouldn't enjoy it so much but it was a nice surprise. Saoirse plays very well. I remember her saying in a talk show this movie makes you want to call your mum but it actually made me want to hug my daughter tbh and tell her I like her. It's never over dramatic and doesn't deliver huge moral lessons. It's lighter than I expected which is perfectly reflected in the light and the cinematography, wide angles and not too many close ups which often give an affected and claustrophobic atmosphere in indie movies.

 

[Buzz]

New trailer for Deadpool 2.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D86RtevtfrA

 

[PeterG]

Trailers For Movies Released 2018-03-16-23rd
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipQc31_wS0iXEa0xsl9XXMyP

Nothing's bolded as I haven't watched the playlist (I have bronchitis...) But Midnight Sun looks like a nice romance.


March 23rd - Pacific Rim: Uprising (Wide) – Action with John Boyega, Scott Eastwood and Charlie Day

March 23rd - Sherlock Gnomes (Wide) - Animated with Johnny Depp, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Stephen Merchant, Mary J. Blige and Ozzy Osbourne

March 23rd - Midnight Sun (Wide) – Romantic drama with Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Rob Riggle

March 23rd - Unsane (Wide) - Thriller with Claire Foy [The Crown], Juno Temple, Jay Pharoah and Amy Irving

March 23rd - Final Portrait (Limited) – Comedy drama with Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer and Tony Shalhoub

March 23rd - I Kill Giants (Limited) – Fantasy thriller with Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots and Jennifer Ehle

March 23rd - What We Started (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “Aims to establish itself as the defining film of the electronic music genre.”

March 23rd - Isle of Dogs (Limited) – Animated with Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel and F. Murray Abraham

March 23rd - The Endless (Limited) Sci-fi thriller, new cast. From imdb.com: “Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.”

March 23rd - Getting Grace (Limited) – Drama, new cast. From imdb.com: “Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the awkward funeral director, Bill Jankowski how to celebrate life.”

March 23rd - The Redeemed and the Dominant: Fittest on Earth (Limited) – Documentary From imdb.com: “In 2017 the fittest athletes on Earth took on the unknown and unknowable during four of the most intense days of competition in CrossFit Games history.”

March 23rd - Back to Burgundy (Limited) – French comedy drama. From imdb.com: “After a 10 year absence, Jean returns to his hometown when his father falls ill. Reuniting with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie, they have to re-build their relationship and trust as a family again.”

March 23rd - A Bag of Marbles (Limited) – French drama. From imdb.com: “The adventure of a Jewish kid and of his brother escaping the Nazi persecution in the occupied France.”

 

[Buzz]

Get well soon @PeterG !!!

 

[watchthis!!]

I saw Snatched the other day and it was better than expected. But that's because I heard such mixed reviews about the movie, so I had lowered my expectations for this one. I thought Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn made a very good pairing. Both are strong in their roles. The supporting cast is good and the script moves along well with just the right number of laughs. If I had to guess at why the movie didn't do well at the box office, it's because Schumer's character is basically mocking a significant segment of the movie's audience. She plays a self-obsessed twenty-something with no drive or responsibility, so her character becomes the joke. I think too much of the potential audience for Snatched saw themselves portrayed in an un-flattering way, so I'm guessing bad word of mouth spread as things hit too close to home for those viewers. It's a segment of the population that I feel deserves to be skewered, so I thought it was hilarious! And her character does go through the necessary changes throughout the movie to come out of it a better person. That ending is done well in my opinion. My over-all review? Give it a chance!

Trailer for Snatched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jcsc62gdBk

 

[PeterG]

I watched 1935's Charlie Chan In Egypt because I wanted to see more of the work of Rita Hayworth. This is an early appearance for her, still using the name Rita Cansino. She has possibly the smallest role in the movie. So not much to say about her performance, but it's decent considering she hardly has any lines. As for the movie itself, I thought it was a pretty decent movie mystery. This is the eighth of a long-running series of movies (44 titles in all) and succeeds because of an intriguing script and competent performances. This is one of those movies that could work as well as a stage play as the majority of the action takes places in one house and the remaining action at the indoor location of an archeological dig. Worth checking out if you're a fan of film history or a good old-fashioned detective mystery. (Note that the movie features some racial stereotypes...problematic for 2018 to be sure, but not too irksome for the time the movie was made.)

There's no trailer at youtube for the movie...but the whole movie IS available there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY7O1RXmLEA

 

[PeterG]

Mysteries in the Archives: 1954 Marilyn Monroe in Korea is one episode of a ten-part series that Canada's National Film Board made. It's only 26 minutes, but packs the punch of a full-length documentary. The episode chronicles Monroe and then-husband Joe DiMaggio's trip to Japan. Monroe went on her own from Japan to Korea to do multiple events to entertain the troops that were there. Monroe did a four day tour, visiting nine different cities and performed for over 60,000 soldiers. Monroe did her first live performances there, singing three songs in a shoulder-bearing outfit while the musicians on stage and the troops are all wearing winter clothing. The band even rush off stage due to weather when the three songs were done, but Monroe stayed on stage to visit with the troops. After the four day tour in such cold weather, some thought Monroe was beginning a battle with pneumonia and possibly stayed at a hospital in Tokyo after the tour.

There's a lot of other interesting information in this episode. Makes you see Monroe more as an everyday, but very caring, person instead of the persona we all know so well.

 

[PeterG]

I'm going to put my whole post about the 2005 documentary Earthlings in a spoiler because of the excessive images shown in the movie regarding the cruelty humans sometimes inflict on animals.

Spoiler

Earthlings is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. There are sections on how animals are treated by humans in entertainment, sport and food production. I've seen other documentaries about food production and how animals are treated, but this shows more extreme footage than I had ever seen before. I had to look down and stop watching the screen because I couldn't watch what was being shown. It's beyond shocking that human beings on farms can treat livestock the ways that are shown. A Mark Twain quote used in the movie that stuck with me:

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”

I think this movie is worth seeing because it shows the reality of what is happening in our world. You can't bury your head in the sand after seeing this. But it is very brutal. There is a trailer on youtube that represents the ideals of how things could be, but doesn't accurately reflect the brutality in the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7Babs_FJU

And then this trailer, DOES show a lot of the horribly graphic scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ctwOTHQYo

Watch this movie if you want to take your awareness level regarding the treatment of animals to a new level. Avoid it if you feel your already know what you need to know and are taking acting to make things better. If not, perhaps watching this movie will inspire you to make changes in whatever you feel would be best.

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

Thank you and no offense but I'm not reading that.

 

[emason]

I saw Call Me By Your Name and Three Billboards on the plane.

Im gay so i was VERY curious to see Call me by your name... I was kinda like bleh... I dont think Armie and Timothy developed much of a romance throughout this storyline.... And Armie's character wasnt likable if you ask me.

But my friends keep telling me its about the kids first crush/love... and how stuff like this almost never works... just your first experience...

Question: It was hard to hear the film.. So did his Dad know they were having a relationship then the whole time and he was way cool about it yes? AND was the Dad ALSO gay???? I couldn't tell by what he was saying... I think he may have been gay too???

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I haven’t seen the movie, but I am struggling to read the book right now. I’m about 2/5 of the way through and I’m finding the whole thing bleh. I don’t particularly like Oliver, I find Elio way too OTT, and I don’t get any sense of the father at all so far. My guess would be that the problems with the movie start with the book. It’s too bad, as I read Aciman’s Out of Egypt twice because I liked it so much. This is a big disappointment.

 

[PeterG]

Sherpa is a 2015 documentary about the Nepalese sherpas who guide visitors from around the world who wish to climb Mount Everest. The documentary's focus is on the untold story of the men who guide climbers and do pretty much all of the necessary work (and sometimes pampering) to enable them to make this climb. However, when a disastrous and deadly moment of nature hits a group of the sherpas, the focus of the documentary changes in regards to how sherpas are treated by their own government as well as those needing their services. I wasn't really into this movie at first as there seemed to be too much focus on insensitive first-worlders, but when the focus of the movie changed, I found myself drawn much more into things. It's wild too watch about people being upset about maybe not being able to make this climb...while we know there are families of sherpas who have just died and now not only have lost their loved ones, but could possibly become destitute because the provided for these families is now deceased. One operator in particular does/says some pretty shady things and I was hoping at the end of the movie they would say that he had been ostracized from returning to work in this area, but I guess the people needing this work are so desperate for income, they have overlooked all that he has done. I see from the cover of the DVD that it's from the producers of Touching The Void and 127 Hours. Nor surprising to see they've been involved in other great movies as Sherpa is a great movie as well.

 

[Vash01]

Saw 'Red Sparrow' last weekend- with some trepidation. Some reviews on imdb said it was so boring that people were going outside for walks or falling asleep. I did not fall asleep, or anywhere close to it. It is a very complex story and I didn't understand parts of it. It held my interest, so I am going to read the book. I also read that the book has Putin as a character, but the movie completely removed it. Actually I thought Mathias Schoenert (sp?) who plays Dominika's uncle Vanya, could have played Putin rather well.

Jennifer Lawrence was good in some places, but I felt that she was miscast. First of all, I didn't feel that she was convincing as a Russian and even less convincing as a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi theatre. By contrast, Naomi Watts was very believable as a Russian hooker in Saint Vincent, and Natalie Portman was very credible as a ballerina in Black Swan. I didn't feel that Jen got the accent and the mannerisms of a Russian, and she does not have a ballerina body, though she is very beautiful. I read that she had trained in ballet for 5 months just for that opening act (and absolutely nothing later). Why? In this digital age it was not hard to use someone else to do the ballet. Acting wise she was quite good, but not convincing as a Russian. I guess Francis Lawrence wanted her in the lead role. She will sell tickets for sure, but as a movie I think someone else might have been a better choice.

There was too much violence and blood in the movie for my taste. However, it was anything but boring. I am not going to see it again. I found the book at Costco today, and I am going to read it. I think it may be more enjoyable. Also the Putin connection, which is in the book but not in the movie, is something that I am very interested in.

Overall I would say 7/10. Not bad at all. I just wish the lead character was more Russian.

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

Has anyone heard anything about Chappaquiddick? The reviews on Rotten Tomatoes don't sound all that impressive but they can be harsher than public opinion.

 

[PeterG]

Has anyone heard anything about Chappaquiddick? The reviews on Rotten Tomatoes don't sound all that impressive but they can be harsher than public opinion.

They've been playing a lot of ads for this on TV. After about the fifth trailer I saw, I finally looked it up on Wikipedia to see what it was about. I had no awareness of this story. (It happened when I was six, and I didn't watch the news on a regular basis then.) But it looks interesting. Haven't heard any reviews yet. But it reminded me of a movie I saw a while back: Blow Out from 1981. It's a thriller starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow and is written and directed by Brian DePalma. It seems too much like the Chappaquiddick story for it not to have been a fictionalized version of that.

 

[Vash01]

They've been playing a lot of ads for this on TV. After about the fifth trailer I saw, I finally looked it up on Wikipedia to see what it was about. I had no awareness of this story. (It happened when I was six, and I didn't watch the news on a regular basis then.) But it looks interesting. Haven't heard any reviews yet. But it reminded me of a movie I saw a while back: Blow Out from 1981. It's a thriller starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow and is written and directed by Brian DePalma. It seems too much like the Chappaquiddick story for it not to have been a fictionalized version of that.

Has anyone heard anything about Chappaquiddick? The reviews on Rotten Tomatoes don't sound all that impressive but they can be harsher than public opinion.

I keep seeing the ads on TV. It is an event associated with Ted Kennedy. It took him out of any chance of becoming POTUS. He did run for the democratic nomination later but he never made it. No matter how old/young you are, it is an important event in US history. I definitely want to see this movie to understand what really happened.

 

[watchthis!!]

Montreal mom outraged after cinema charged $7 admission for her baby
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/mo...ma-charged-7-admission-for-her-baby-1.3857933

Okay, at the risk of not being forward-thinking...WHY do people bring six month old babies to the movie theatre? They're not going to get anything out of it. To me, it just seems like the parent didn't want to find someone to take care of their child, so they just brought 'em along. Babies in movie theatres is never a good idea. The potential for noise and disruption is just going to wreck the movie for everyone else. I think it's a selfish (self-absorbed) move.

At the end of the article, the woman says she will never go to that theatre again. I'm wondering how many customers have thanked the manager for his stand!

 

[Vash01]

I saw Phantom Thread yesterday. On one hand I found it to be strange and on another hand I found it to be irritating watching wealthy people wallow in their wealth. Finding the movie strange might have come from the slowness of the movie, so slow that I had to pull out my cell phone to play Bejeweled while I waited for something to happen. One major plot point takes place in silence, so I maybe missed something important that set up the strangeness. Okay, I just checked the plot of the movie at Wikipedia and I understood everything. I change my description of finding this movie strange to...this is a movie about intensely f***ed up people. Poor little rich peoples. Ugh. I guess I have no sympathy for the sorrows of the wealthy. Maybe if they gave all their money to the starving and then killed themselves, then perhaps I'd feel some sympathy. But as long as they choose to live in the most miserable possible way....and inflict their misery on everyone around them... Sorry, no sympathy. Rather, I just hate you. Yuck.

^^^Phantom Thread....yeah, actually I rather liked it after the twist, but the people (other than his lover) were totally miserable, and seemed quite to enjoy their control-freak misery.

But Dunkirk? That was a film that, had they all just died, the movie would have been much shorter, and I would have appreciated that very much. The MOST AWFUL, boring movie, that allows no investment in any but 2 of the characters, so you don't even care what happens....I looked at my watch 4 times in the first hour, spent half of the movie trying to remember Mark Rylance's name, and considered taking a nap, but it was too loud. Serious waste of time for me.

Funny how different people are. I loved Dunkirk and rather enjoyed Phantom Thread. Slow pace doesn't bother me if the movie is well done.

 

[PeterG]

Trailers For Movies Released 2018-03-30th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipTP-9OKUDfHa7H2ddyDAhk1

When I finally got around to watching last week's playlist, I was surprised to find seven different movies that looked good enough to add to my To See list. So I'm disappointed that of the 18 movies available this week, zero interest me. I even watched two different trailers for Ready Player One, as I was expecting to want to see this one. If you see any of these movies and think I've made a mistake by not searching any of them out...let me know!


March 29th - Ready Player One (Wide) – Sci-fi with Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, T.J. Miller, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg and Mark Rylance

March 30th - Acrimony (Wide) – Thriller with Taraji P. Henson and Lyriq Bent [The Book of Negroes]

March 30th - God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (Wide) – Christian drama with John Corbett, Tatum O’Neal, Ted McGinley and Cissy Houston

March 30th - Lean on Pete (Limited) – Adventure drama rama with Travis Fimmel, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Steve Zahn and Thomas Mann

March 30th - Gemini (Limited) – Mystery thriller with Zoë Kravitz, John Cho and Ricki Lake

March 30th - All I Wish aka A Little Something for Your Birthday (Limited) – Comedy drama with Sharon Stone, Tony Goldwyn, Ellen Burstyn, Gilles Marini, Ryan Lochte and Famke Janssen

March 30th - The China Hustle (Limited) – Documentary. From imdb.com: “An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.”

March 30th - Finding Your Feet (Limited) – Romantic comedy drama with Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley, Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie

March 30th - The Last Movie Star (Limited) – Drama with Burt Reynolds, Chevy Chase and Nikki Blonsky

March 30th - Outside In (Limited) – Drama with Edie Falco, Jay Duplass and Ben Schwartz

March 30th - After Louie (Limited) – Romance with Alan Cumming, Zachary Booth [Damages] and Wilson Cruz

March 30th - Birthmarked (Limited) – Comedy with Matthew Goode, Toni Collette and Fionnula Flanagan

March 30th - Love After Love (Limited) – Drama with Andie MacDowell and Chris O'Dowd

March 30th - FourPlay (Limited) – Comedy drama with Tammy Blanchard and Bryan Greenberg

March 30th - Status Update (Limited) – Comedy fantasy, new cast. From imdb.com: “Ross Lynch stars as Kyle Moore, a teenager who after being uprooted by his parents' separation and unable to fit into his new hometown, stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social media updates to come true.”

March 30th - Best F(r)iends: Volume One (Limited) - Comedy, new cast. From imdb.com: “When a drifter is taken in by a peculiar mortician, the two hatch an underground enterprise off the back of the mortician's old habits…their efforts unravel, causing the drifter to run off with the spoils and leaving the mortician adrift.”

March 26th - The Executioners (DVD and Digital) – Thriller, new cast. From imdb.com: “When four female friends go on a retreat to a secluded lakeside cabin, they soon realise they're not alone. Masked intruders try to take them hostage, but as they fight back, the friends get a taste for something more than the will to survive. Will their fate be as victim or executioner?”

March 30th - Baaghi 2 (Limited) – Indian action adventure. From Imdb.com: “Ronny, is hired by ex-lover Neha, to track down her daughter Riya, who has been kidnapped.”

 

[Kasey]

I'm trying to watch "Girl on the train" right now. It's, uh......work.

Edited to add: Meh.

 

[PeterG]

Grand Hotel won the best picture award at the 5th Annual Academy Awards. It stars Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore. It's basically a collection of three or four storylines of various people all staying at the same luxury hotel in Berlin. It's a romantic comedy that I found to be...okay. Which made me check to see what it was up against for the best picture win. Turns out the only movie from that year I recognized was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, for which Fredric March won the best actor trophy. The original version of The Champ was a nominee for best picture, as was Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich. Not really drawn to any of these movies...maybe I'm just tired. My mind is telling me to consider them...maybe I have too many older movies from the library sitting here waiting to be watched so part of me is saying, "get some current stuff"! Luckily our library just got a bunch of movies that were nominated for Oscars this year, so I should be moving up the hold list on them pretty quickly. As for Grand Hotel, I'd recommend it if you're an uber of any of it's stars. It was interesting to see Joan Crawford in an early role, though.

 

[MacMadame]

Also, you are watching them with modern eyes. Not everything holds up over that many decades.

 

[PeterG]

Another great movie from 1939: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Bette Davis plays Elizabeth and Errol Flynn stars as Essex. Davis is a force of nature (as always) and Flynn brings just the right amount of flair to his role. I think they make an amazing screen couple. Which is stated on a DVD extra along with the movie, although it's also mentioned that Davis didn't want Flynn for his role (instead she wanted Laurence Olivier). And supposedly when scenes ended, the two turned about-face and walked as far from each other as they could get. If that's true, then Flynn is a WAY better actor than he gets credit for, because their chemistry is SO good.

The script for this one is as much a star as Davis and Flynn. So strong! It's based on a stage play by Maxwell Anderson, who was an Oscar nominee for writing All Quiet On The Western Front (1930). A few of Anderson's other credits include Key Largo, Joan of Arc, The Wrong Man and uncredited listings at imdb for Vertigo and Ben-Hur. Which made me wonder if he was blacklisted as a (supposed) communist, but there's no mention of that at either imdb.com or Wikipedia. Maybe he became a ghost writer or was hired to touch up scripts. I heard that Carrie Fisher at one time was quite in demand for touching up scripts that had been deemed lacking.

I have added The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex to my favourite movies of all time list, ranking it at my #40 best movie of all time.

 

[Japanfan]

I'm going to put my whole post about the 2005 documentary Earthlings in a spoiler because of the excessive images shown in the movie regarding the cruelty humans sometimes inflict on animals.

I think this movie is worth seeing because it shows the reality of what is happening in our world. You can't bury your head in the sand after seeing this. But it is very brutal. There is a trailer on youtube that represents the ideals of how things could be, but doesn't accurately reflect the brutality in the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7Babs_FJU

And then this trailer, DOES show a lot of the horribly graphic scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ctwOTHQYo

I had to log in to Google to see these, so went straight to You Tube. I got through Parts 1 and 2, but really can't take anymore.

I saw another documentary recently on the treatment of animals in Canadian labs, and it was really hard to watch. At least it had a happy ending, though (a pack of beagles, the dogs most commonly used in Canadian labs, were released from the lab and went outdoors and felt grass under their paws for the first time

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Im watching this movie on Lifetime or something tonight called "Heaven Is For Real"...

OMG.. STUNNING! and this boy is beyond AMAZING!!

I can't stop watching this....

Who has seen this?

 

[Vash01]

I saw 'Victoria and Abdul' on DVD this weekend. Pretty good.

 

[PeterG]

Went to see A Wrinkle in Time - disappointed. The whole big world that L'Engle creates gets reduced to "believe in yourself." The father never tesseracts meg off planet, every Christian reference is thoroughly scrubbed, and the world creating looks like about $50 spent. Too much weepy time staring into each other's eyes, and the father apparently just "wanted to shake the universe's hands."

I saw A Wrinkle in Time on Tuesday ($5 matinee!). It's a very good film, but it's not what I pictured. The filmmaking itself is to die for; the colors are so vibrant and beautiful. Very impressive, rich appearance.
Storm Reid really makes a good Meg. Calvin is good but I feel like his role was cut down a bit from the book and we didn't have a chance to see his full personality shine through.
Oprah does her role just fine and Mindy is good too, but my favorite of the three is Reese Witherspoon; she's hilarious. Chris Pine was good but I think he does better as a "hot ladies' man" than a father with a teenage daughter.
I have to give MEGA props to little Charles Wallace, who was a GREAT actor!!! (Seriously, he's like 6???) I hope to see him starring in other movies!
Overall, I give it 4 out of 5 stars and would recommend it!

Saw A Wrinkle In Time today. I thought the first half was very strong. The second half moved a bit too slow for me. Plus the "believe in yourself" them was presented in a bit too hokey kind of way. Overall I enjoyed it. I agree that the film is beautiful to see on a big screen. The cast are all very strong, just wish the second half of the script was stronger so they had something a bit better to work with. I think it's worth seeing, I like the message of young people not letting negativity have power over them and just forging ahead and doing what's right. I think it's worth seeing.

 

[Vash01]

Saw A Wrinkle In Time today. I thought the first half was very strong. The second half moved a bit too slow for me. Plus the "believe in yourself" them was presented in a bit too hokey kind of way. Overall I enjoyed it. I agree that the film is beautiful to see on a big screen. The cast are all very strong, just wish the second half of the script was stronger so they had something a bit better to work with. I think it's worth seeing, I like the message of young people not letting negativity have power over them and just forging ahead and doing what's right. I think it's worth seeing.

It is on my list to see- may be next weekend.

I saw the documentary 'Poisoned by Polonium' about Sasha Litnivenko (sp?). Truly horrifying. Some very disturbing scenes and disturbing facts. This is Putin's Russia. They start with Yeltsin though. The film is mostly in Russian, with English subtitles. I may watch it again, but right now i need something cheerful.

 

[watchthis!!]

I decided to take a chance on the Baywatch movie remake. It was...okay. Seemed like it tried to walk the line between comedy and action movie. Might have been better if they had tried to do one or the other instead. There were a couple of laughs and a few decent action scenes. But as far as The Rock movies go, this one doesn't rate very high.