Life Animated is a documentary that I first heard about on WHYY when they interviewed Ron Suskind who wrote the story about his son Owen. At the age of two, Owen started to lose his motor skills along with his perfectly structured speech patterns. By three, his words had turned to gibberish and Owen was diagnosed with autism. If you have a child with autism, you’re going to want to see this unique documentary. Since I have a grandson with high functioning autism, I was very interested in seeing Life Animated and learned a lot from Owen’s journey. I learned how he finally developed a way to communicate through the world of Disney, using animated Disney movies. Owen, like my grandson, would watch a movie over and over and over again. I never knew why, I just came to accept that was part of his personality. In Owen’s case…
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Loving is the true story of Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton), a white construction worker in Caroline County, Virginia and Mildred Jeter (Ruth Negga), a neighbor and family friend. Mildred and Richard were in love, in 1958 Mildred became pregnant so they decided to get married. The only problem was their marriage would violate Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws so they traveled out of state to Washington DC, where interracial marriage was not a problem and became Mr. and Mrs. Richard Loving, then returned to Virginia as husband and wife.
A Man Called Ove is not a movie you’re likely to see unless you’re into foreign films, which means if you don’t speak Swedish, you’ll have to read subtitles. In my opinion, it would be worth every word you’d have to read. This heartfelt story will arouse a significant amount of your emotions. A Man Called Ove spans approximately 60 years of his life. Ove (Rolf Lassgård) lives in a small community of condominiums where he is a member of the community block association. Ove appears to have a touch of ODC and is obsessed with making sure that everyone follows the rules. In the beginning of the movie, Ove is forced to retire after 43 years on his job. It was never made clear why except that at 59 years of age, Ove’s personality has become intolerably grumpy. From that point on, Ove made numerous attempts to commit suicide but was…
I tried really hard to like Suicide Squad because I’m into the whole super hero thing. I have to admit, as much as I like super heroes and meta-humans, Suicide Squad was suicide. Some of the most deplorable meta-humans you can imagine are housed in Belle Reve Prison for their hideous crimes.
Since I’m not a fan of horror movies, everything about Split would have to be extraordinary for me to find favor with the story. I didn’t really find too much favor with Split as it seemed to lack substance, rhyme or reason. One man with 23 personalities kidnaps three girls at once. That’s a pretty ballsy move, even for a psycho. Afraid and apprehensive about the kidnapper’s intentions is enough to stifle anyone. However, these three girls, Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), Marcia (Jessica Sula) and Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) are young and able bodied, so I couldn’t understand why together, they couldn’t overwhelm this guy. Moving right along, the kidnapper, Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), has a psychiatrist, Dr. Karen Fletcher (Betty Buckley) who he sees on demand. Dr. Fletcher detects there’s something wrong and suspects she knows what it is but does not share her suspicions with anyone. …
Captain Fantastic really flew under the radar. I don’t believe I saw it advertised at all. Too bad because Captain Fantastic is a fantastic movie. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. It gave me school for thought and taught me a thing or two about our value system.
Jackie is as good as a film about Jackie Kennedy could possibly be, given it only covers the assassination of her husband and Theodore H. White’s (Billy Crudup)Life magazine interview with Jackie as a widow at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Maybe because I lived those days of profound sadness and anger, I didn’t want to ever relive that time again. It was one day before my birthday, 11/22/63, which ruined it for me, since I absolutely loved John F. Kennedy. The world seemed to come to a screeching halt, absent of life and any form of happiness, just filled with sadness, tears and disbelief.
Wow, what an emotional roller coaster. Lion is one of the better movies of 2016. I really can’t say enough about this touching, true story about a little five year old boy who gets separated from his family, ends up in Calcutta, approximately 1,600 km away from home and ultimately lands in Australia, where he now lives with his new adoptive parents. How did this all come to be?
If you’re expecting a great story, you’ve picked the right movie. Moonlight is about the life of Chiron “Little” (Alex Hibbert) from the age of 6 through adulthood. He grew up with an abusive, junkie mother, Paula (Naomie Harris) and no father. His only friends were Kevin (Jaden Piner), who he grew attached to and Juan (Mahershala Ali), a grown man and crack dealer, who takes Chiron to his house where he lives with his girlfriend, Teresa (Janelle Monáe). Chiron was bullied terribly as a little boy all the way up though adolescence, about the age of high school. One day Chiron as a teenager, (Ashton Sanders) who was frequently bullied by Terrel (Patrick Decile), changed all that. Obviously, he was surrounded by some of the most deplorable situations imaginable, but managed to beat the odds. I can only say Moonlight is profound and touching. It digs…
Code Black is another hospital series with trauma and drama that takes you beyond the norm. In it’s 2nd season, Code Black continues to hold it’s own in the ratings. Grant you, there’s nothing earth shattering happening that doesn’t happen in other medical series, save maybe one, but like the other medical series, it’s exciting, insightful and quite informative. Over the last two seasons, Code Black has featured many actors. Currently, three main doctors that were featured in season one have been replaced.
