Here at the theater. This is a Robert Zemeckis movie with Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Paul Bettany. It is a very interesting concept. For all but the last minute of the movie, there is a “fixed” camera angle. For the majority of the film, it is inside of a residence and all of the action takes place in one room, over time (about 100 years). Cool idea, but a better story would have been worth the effort. I did like the tie in between in the 1918 epidemic and COVID.
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Brittany runs a marathon. One of those movies I wouldn’t say I love, but I’ve seen a handful of times and it’s a good mix of uplifting and sad.
Rewatched “Singing In The Rain” on Tuesday night.
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Watched Weird with my kids. It was hilarious. So many good cameos and “cameos”. Really hit the sweet spot for me with tons of references to 80s and 90s stuff, and Daniel Radcliffe was perfect in the role of Weird Al.
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Watched American Graffiti for the umpteenth time on the flight home yesterday. Still fun after all these viewings.
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Watched this a couple of years ago, I remember really enjoying it and especially the soundtrack. I believe it’s currently on Netflix.
Watched Inside Out on a flight last week. A classic!
Heretic at the theater with open captions. I don’t like the horror genre, but a good trailer and Hugh Grant drew me in. There were two minor jump scares and I didn’t really think it was truly a horror film, more of a psychological thriller. Explores what is the one true religion, rather heavy handedly. Still a fun watch as Grant was very creepy in his role.
Small Things Like These at the theater. Lots of buzz about this one. Stars Cillian Murphy as a coal supplier in Ireland in the mid 1970’s(?). The story sort of focuses on the Catholic church’s practice of taking in pregnant girls and doing something with the babies (film leaves this undefined, maybe finding good homes for them, maybe selling them). The story is very slow, not a lot of dialogue, no action per se. Maybe it is a good movie, but I wouldn’t care to see it again.
I read the book pretty recently. I thought that was good. It was very short and I think that made it better, and I can see how that would made a movie worse. Yeah, it was all about the dilemma about what he should do once he found out, as he knew that bringing it to attention would ruin all aspects of his livelihood, family, and life.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Airplane) - Have to admit I couldn’t remember the flow from the prior movie, but still, this was an excellent post-apocalyptic film and very happy they included scene from the prior which helped me remember .
Twisters (Airplane) - I enjoyed this, but wasted too much time looking for a connection to the prior, especially the slow reveal of her mother.
Deadpool & Wolverine (Airplane) - fun, funny, great action. Basically plotless, graphic violence and extreme language and sexuality. All in all a fun ride, and the better for not trying to actually continue the Wolverine storyline.
Bandolero (1968) - Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch
Violet & Daisy on Amazon. From 2013 with young Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel as teenage hitmen (hit women?) doing a job and the guy they need to kill is James Gandolfini. A bit of action but a lot of dialogue between the girls and their mark. OK but nothing special.
Bullet Train
Finally got around to watching this - it came out a couple of years ago. It was a fun caper film with lots of action and some witty dialogue. Brad Pitt is pretty good, and it has that one actor from the new Shogun.
Family Pack on Netflix. This is a French version of Jumanji. The family was playing a game called “Werewolves”. They ended up putting the game away, but the dad did something to trigger it and the whole family was sent back to 1497 in a rural town in France. They then had to find and kill the 4 werewolves in the town. Dubbing was OK, but not great. Had Jean Remo as the grandfather with memory loss. Lots of attempts at jokes on the differences in the ways we look at things today versus 600 years ago.
A Real Pain at the theater. A Jesse Eisenberg passion project, if I had to guess. He wrote, directed and co-starred in it with Kieran Culkin. Cousins on a road trip to Poland (from NY) to see their grandmother’s house an a sort of holocaust tour with 4 other people and a tour guide. Mostly a movie about the emotions around lose and grieving. Worth a watch.
Here Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany: thought-provoking memory journey 
Red One at the theater. Stars Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans mainly. They need to find and save the kidnapped Santa (J.K. Simmons). I went in expecting a fairly craptastic effort. I was very happily surprised. Pretty interesting take and some of the stuff in the film was very well done. Only problem I had was the 2 two year olds at the theater crying through out most of the movie.
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The previews for that looked surprisingly good. I might take Mini Me. (I assume it’s kid appropriate?)
Depends on the individual. A couple questionable words Shit and a bit of violence of the super hero or martial arts genre. I think it would be ok for your kid, if I recall the age correctly.
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Hmmm… it’s PG-13. I try to mostly stick with G & PG, although I think she’s seen at least one PG-13 movie. (She is under 13.)