JUSTICE LEAGUE
ACTION/ADVENTURE
PLOT:
The origin of the team of the Justice League.
Superman is dead and Bruce Wayne (Ben
Affleck) decides to collect of people with superpowers to stop the herald of
Darkside, Steppenwolf (Ciaran Hinds) from retrieving the three Mother Boxes to
destroy the world. The superheroes are:
Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), The Flash, (Ezra Miller) Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and
Aquaman (Jason Momoa). For those who
think this is the Dark Knight, it isn’t!!
It is a lighter tone. The movie
was much longer but the studio; Warner Brothers edited it to two hours. It may feel rushed by it just may have been
cut for time. The team has great
chemistry but the villain not so much.
Fans know who Steppenwolf is but many people do not. The Flash and Aquaman are the highlights of
the film. They are heroic and humorous. If you see this movie DO NOT rush out when
the credits start rolling! There are two
post-credit scenes you want to see. Marvel films does this post-credits scenes
all the time, but now DC is doing it .
THE STAR
ANIMATED
PLOT:
The telling of first Christmas with animals.
There have been many films of the first
Christmas from the animal’s point of view but this is well-made and
heartfelt. Many celebrities used their
voices to this film but what makes it good is that it is funny and the animals
are cute. It is for children as well as
adults. I believe it will be a classic
years to come. If you can, please watch
it!!!
MARSHALL
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
PLOT: A young and only lawyer of NAACP and one of
his famous cases.
Chadwick Boseman loves bio films. He was baseball great Jackie Robinson and the
Godfather of Soul James Brown now he plays Thurgood Marshall. He is a young lawyer who helps black people
trying to get a fair trial. In one case
a blonde upper class beauty Kate Hudson is attacked by a black man Sterling K.
Brown. Marshall and his assistant Sam
Friedman (Josh Gad) who is his lawyers.
You figure out the outcome before the movie is over but the acting is
excellent from all the leads. Hudson and
Gad known for comedy are fantastic. The
movie did not do very well in theaters but I hope in video for it is
outstanding. Actor Boseman will be in
the highly anticipated movie Black Panther.
MURDER OF THE ORIENT EXPRESS
MYSTERY
PLOT: Remake of 1974 film of the
same name.
Hercule
Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is a retired detective boards a train and Samuel
Ratchett (Johnny Depp) is murdered. He
solves it but it is a somber conclusion.
Branagh isn’t just an actor but a director and he is very good at it! It is well made and beautiful to look
at. The cast is not just A-list in popularity
but talent as well. Judi Dench (M from
the James Bond films), Willem Dafoe (Spiderman, John Wick), Derek Jacobi (I Claudius,
Gladiator) and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens). The trailer seemed
it would be lightweight-it wasn’t. It is
always welcome to see a good who dunnit in the midst of action packed
superheroes.
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