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Barbie
Comedy, fantasy, drama,. Great music and choreography. Barbie covers all the bases. Acting is terrific and Greta Gerwig could not have picked a better cast. Margot Robbie is the perfectly beautiful heart and soul of “stereotypical” Barbie. Whether slightly vapid “beach” Ken or self-important patriarchal Ken, Ryan Gosling is top notch. Kate McKinnon sparkles as […]
The Good Liar
November 21, 2019
The Good Liar – When you see Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen together, you expect a great movie. Well, you get a pretty good one here. What appears to be two lonely 70-somethings meeting on line turns out to be a little more mysterious. Roy Courtnay (McKellen) and Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) quickly get along […]
The Leisure Seeker
May 12, 2018
The Leisure Seeker – Wanting to escape their illnesses and their overly-attentive grown-up children, (Christain McKay and Jonel Moloney) Ella and John Spencer (Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland) get in their old RV for a long dreamed of trip to the Hemingway House in Florida. Even though it’s 2016, they stop at a Stuckey’s where […]
Collateral Beauty
December 22, 2016
Collateral Beauty – After the death of his six year old daughter, Howard (Will Smith) has checked out of living. He builds elaborate domino structures and writes letters of disillusionment to Love, Time and Death. It’s been two years and his advertising agency partners (Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Pena) desperately need to jolt him […]
Trumbo
November 27, 2015
Trumbo – The story of Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston of TV’s Breaking Bad), a major Hollywood screenwriter in the 40s and 50s, who was blacklisted along with several others for being members of the CPUSA. Mainly he was an advocate for workers’ rights. These government types felt that movies were the “most powerful influence” on […]
Woman in Gold
April 10, 2015
Woman in Gold – Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) wants five paintings taken from her family by the Nazis to be returned to her. The Austrian government prefers to keep them, especially one known as the Woman in Gold, which is a painting of Maria’s Aunt Adele (Antje Traue). They feel it belongs to them, even […]
The Hundred Foot Journey
August 9, 2014
The Hundred Foot Journey – Another beautiful movie from director Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen). Young Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) and his family escape from a tragedy in India to Europe. The family has long been restaurateurs. In England, Hassan describes the vegetables as having no soul. Fate […]
Red 2
July 19, 2013
Red 2 – Retired CIA Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) teams up again with Marvin (John Malkovich) when they find out there’s a contract on Frank. Mary Louise Parker is fun as Sarah, Frank’s girlfriend, who wants to be in on the action while she hates ex-girlfriend Katya (Catherine Zeta Jones). Anthony Hopkins is his superb […]
Hitchcock
December 16, 2012
Hitchcock – Starring Anthony Hopkins as the rotund Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma Reville, the movie is about the making of Psycho and the complex relationship between Hitch and Alma. Hitch likes his food and drink. He also likes peepholes to look into his stars’ dressing rooms. You wonder if the making […]
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scenebymarilyn Blog 
July 23, 2023
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