Come Away – Rose* and Jack* Littleton (Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo) help develop their three children’s imaginations and intellect by playing along with them When the older son accidentally drowns, the two younger kids Peter (Jordan Nash) and Alice (Keira Chansa) take it upon themselves to help their parents emotionally and financially It’s a […]
November 5, 2019
Motherless Brooklyn – After Frank Minna (Bruce Willis) is murdered, Lionel (Edward Norton) sets out to find his killers. Frank rescued Lionel and three other guys from an orphanage and gave them positions in his detective business. Lionel has Tourette’s Syndrome and can’t help but say inappropriate things sometimes, yet otherwise has a photographic memory […]
March 9, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time – Scientist Alex Murry (Chris Pine) tessers himself into space to find the secrets of the Universe and disappears. His beautiful and brilliant wife (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), daughter Meg (Storm Reid) and son Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) are devastated. Meg and CW meet up with three ladies from another dimension – Mrs. […]
March 18, 2017
Beauty and the Beast – You know the story – about a prince (Dan Stevens) who’s not as compassionate as he should be gets turned into a beaast until he learns to love properly and Belle (Emma Watson), a beautiful village girl, who’s considered peculiar because she likes to read. As a musical, it beats […]
June 26, 2016
Free State of Jones – Gruesomely graphic beginning with blood and guts all over the place so you have no doubt this is about war; the Civil War that Newt Knight (Matthew McConaughey) calls a rich man’s war where the fighting is for cotton. Apparently if you owned 20 or more slaves, you didn’t have […]
January 5, 2016
Concussion – Based on the true story of Dr. Bennett Omalu (Will Smith), the highly educated Nigerian pathologist who discovered that repeated head injuries during football play can cause severe brain damage. He named it CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Omalu has a number of degrees but it seems to me it don’t take no mental […]
June 14, 2014
Belle – In 1796, Sir Admiral John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) leaves his exceedingly beautiful young daughter to be raised by her great uncle and aunt, Lord (Tom Wilkinson) and Lady (Penelope Wilton) Mansfield. Called Dido (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the family loves her and she is treated by her cousin, Elizabeth, like a sister. She receives the […]
November 13, 2020
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