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STORYLINE: Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins.  (IMDb)   There I has always been an underlying quirkiness to Wes Anderson’s work. From films such as…

   Today is my Grabdna’s birthday!       For one reason or another there are movies folks watch annually. It can be a favorite holiday film, at the end of the year, for instance.  Every year, around my Grandmals borthday I watch the Russell Crowe boxing movie Cinderella Man,  I have every year since…

STORYLINE: A Chinese woman lives for herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.  (IMDb)    In previous blogs you have read me jokingly, feed my own ego, about once and still being cute and adorable.  Let me get a little serious about myself for a minute. As the world went…

STORYLINE: When kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang) relocates to New York City with his mother to attend a prestigious new school, he finds solace in a new friendship with a classmate and her father. But his newfound peace is short-lived after he attracts unwanted attention from a formidable local karate champion. Driven by…

STORYLINE: The “Dagger Debs” are a gang of snarling girls, and Maggie is their newest member. Lace, the ever-teeth-gritting leader, befriends her but soon has doubts; it seems Lace’s man, Dominic, head of the “Silver Daggers” fancies the new recruit. Lace struggles to keep control of the Debs and a handle on Nick as they…

STORYLINE: A lonely Hawaiian girl befriends a runaway alien, helping to mend her fragmented family. (IMDb).      Somewhere deep down there is a child like version of myself.  Imagine a younger but still just as adorable version of the Will you all have come to know and love.  That version of myself is what…

STORYLINE: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity – which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe – with the world’s governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan’s past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the…

STORYLINE: A suburban dad falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor.  (IMDb)      I think the storyline from IMDb doesn’t fully captures the plot of the film, Friendship.  Nor does the trailer accurately capture the spirit of the film. I get that that though. It’s a hard film to summarize without getting into spoilers.…

STORYLINE: An in-home caregiver fears for her life after being assigned to a mysterious elderly patient in a remote seaside home. (IMDb)    Not all horror films are huge blockbusters.  There are some really great independent features out there. The Innkeepers (2011),  The Witch (2014), and Hereditary (2018) come immediately to mind. George Ronero’s Night…

STORYLINE: A teenage girl has recurring nightmares of a tower collapse in the 1960s. She discovers that these nightmares are a premonition she inherited from her grandmother. The grandmother predicted the collapse of the building and saved a group of people from death. Decades later, the granddaughter begins to have visions of her family members…