My past experiences with Kevin Hart movies and comedy spots left me feeling that Kevin Hart wasn’t very runny, despite the “funniest Man Alive” title placed on his name.
I don’t like comedians who cannot do their routines without creating the dirtiest, foul material available. Today I saw “About Last Night” and suddenly saw the humor. Kevin along with Michael Ealy was totally funny in this cutesy, “I don’t want to commit to a relationship” movie. Although there was plenty of foul language, it wasn’t over the top. After all, this is an adult movie. Paula Patton makes a cameo but profound appearance. I believe the plot was pretty true to life. There were a few bloopers that I cannot reveal because it would be a spoiler. All the women in this film were eye candy. Kevin and Regina Hall became a wild, eccentric couple while Michael Ealy and Joy Bryant, better known…
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There isn’t a movie about the Holocaust that doesn’t have me crying my eyeballs out by the end of the film. The Book Thief, although it didn’t end as horribly as some others I’ve seen, still had me crying.
This movie was moving, tenderly told and horrific at the same time. This film focuses on Liesel Meminger (played by Sophie Nélisse), who’s birth mother apparently had a mental breakdown. Liesel befriends a little boy named Rudy Steiner, (played by Nico Liersch) who loved her till his dying breath and also gave her the nick name, The Book Thief. Her new family, played by Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson, loved her as their own. Liesel was an above average child who went though quite a bit and managed to encounter new and different challenges that included befriending a Jewish lad, Max Vandenburg, (played by Ben Schnetzer) who her newly adoptive family was hiding from the Nazis. She befriended others who were all…
Saving Mr. Banks was brilliantly done. It’s my understanding that Pamela L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins and played by Emma Thompson, would not allow her beloved Mary Poppins to be remade so the Disney studios decided to make Saving Mr. Banks, a story about how the original creation of the film came about.
Mrs. Travers, as she liked to be called, was quite eccentric and held her character, Mary Poppins, near and dear to her heart. The story was based on her family and was mostly dedicated to her father who died at the young age of 43 from influenza. Her father was also a heavy drinker who was demoted from a Bank Manager to a Bank Clerk. Their relationship was very close and his dead was devastating. Saving Mr. Banks nicely parallels P. L. Travers’ later life and her childhood. Walt Disney, played by Tom Hanks, incorporated a little of his…
