Movies, Film and My Opinion

 Ok, this one was cute. Go Disney for coming up with something cute and strange and a villain for villain's sake! I mean, this guy...this guy was evil. And the motivation was truly selfish and I love it! Mabel loves animals as a little girl. But she wants to set them free which not all the adults agree with. Poor Mabel visits with her grandmother a lot as a little girl, especially when she gets into trouble. Her grandmother introduces her to a pond area that has a lot of creatures. Mabel learns to love these creatures and how they coexist. As she grows up, Mabel takes her love a little far: she is bound and determined to keep the little pond area free of man. One man, in particular, wants to destroy the area and put in a connecting highway. This little town of Beaverton must have a beaver to help all the animals coexist in this area. Mabel is so ferocious with stopping this guy that she tries to enlist the help of her professors at college. But to her surprise, her professors have ...

 This movie from 2013 was a pleasant surprise. A man and a woman have three grown children, one that is adopted. The man and woman divorced and the man is in a loving relationship with the woman's best friend and everyone is cool with it. The adopted son, Alejandro, played by Ben Barnes, and his wife to be, Missy, played by "Mama Mia"s own Amanda Seyfried, tell mom Ellie and dad Don, played by Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton (who always wears the same glasses in every movie I see her in), that Alejandro's birth mother, Patricia Rae, will be visiting for the wedding. And she's very Catholic. Doesn't believe in divorce. So for 3 days, Don and Ellie must pretend to be married. This does not sit well with Don's lover, Bebe, played by Susan Sarandon. This is quite the star-studded movie, including the priest played by Robin Williams, and the two siblings, Jared and Lyla, played by Topher Grace and Katherine Heigl. So many different situations just to make Mama ...

 I'm gonna have to watch this movie again. The nerd in me now wants to play the games, and I have no idea why I never played the games in my youth and why the heck I sat there watching my guy friends play these games but now....now I gotta play them. This movie was just fun, and after visiting Epic Universe and going around Mario World and getting coins and just enjoying the heck outta my day, this movie makes so much more sense. I learned that Yoshi eats things. I learned that Mario is the brave one and Luigi is not. I learned that Princess Peach likes Mario and he needs to recognize that. I learned that Peach has a sister named Rosalina. I learned that Bowser lies. I learned that Rosalina has a bunch of kids (I do NOT want to know how!) I learned that if her children had just paid attention and listened to her in the first place, this would have been a real short movie. And I learned that Princess Peach didn't need Mario, she didn't need help, but she was so grateful to w...

 I do enjoy a good animated movie. And this did NOT disappoint! I wanted to see "Goat" ever since I saw the previews. I really do like the animation, first and foremost. I am not familiar with a lot of the voice over actors but the animation, yes! And the plot of the story is a small kid (no pun intended) who has dreams and wants to play ball, but he's small and he's not a tough creature but he's smart. And with the backing of his friends and the diner where he works at, he knows how to take a chance and make it big. Caleb McLaughlin did a great job as Will the goat. Had no idea Jelly Roll was Grizz. David Harbour from "Stranger Things" as Archie the rhino, a dad, no less. And Gabrielle Union as Jett Fillmore. I never would have guessed it! It's a fun movie and it really does take people back to a time of teasing and being put down and lots of doubt. Even when you're on top of the world, there is doubt. But where's there's doubt, there co...

 This 2019 movie was actually a delight to watch. My husband and I were looking for something on this rainy night to watch and stumbled across it on Netflix, I believe. Comedy all over the place with death in its wake! Adam Sandler plays a cop trying to make detective named Nick. Nick is married to Audrey, played by Jennifer Aniston. Audrey is a hair stylist and one day that information will help save her life. She and Nick are about to celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary and she's always wanted to go to Italy. After a small fight, Nick promises her a trip to Italy. On their flight they meet Charles Cavendish played by Luke Evans. Charles invites them on a yacht to meet his family. The couple is witness to an old man about to sign over his fortune to his new wife, and a murder. Then another murder. Then another murder. And then they are about to be murdered themselves. They they are set up as the killers. And then they are working with the French police on the case. It's f...

  Finally saw "Sinners." All the people I knew at work were talking about this movie. The news and the awards shows talked about it. So I watched it. It's not really my kind of movie. I was afraid that that it was a horror movie, and really, no, it isn't. I was hoping more about the history of the black people and the history of dance and the history of music and I did see some of that but not enough. I get that Remmick, played by Jack O'Connell, wants everyone to be a family. Black, white, Asian (Chinese back in that time) - didn't matter. He was right: Jim Crow South, yeah the white man would try and succeed in taking that Jut Joint away from them eventually. Not to see the black man, or black brothers, succeed and make money like they did in Chicago. The brothers are Smoke and Stack, both played by Michael B. Jordan, come on the scene from Chicago and this town in the South knows them. They are wary of them. But they give them a chance. The town comes out t...