Vice: One of the year's best movies and scariest. No it has a little history, a little dark humor and a lot of reasons to fear what happens in Washington. Great cast and directing. Republicans may not vote for this. *****stars 2018 Movie 53
Aquaman: A very wet super hero move with enough humor to keep me interested. Too many endless fight scenes. *** star 2018 movie 54
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse: Actually a very good movie that has heart and a story besides fight scenes. ***1/2 stars 2018 movie 55
That's all for this year. Next year I'm going to revert back to old ways.
Mile 22: Great movie forth time. Plot twist at the end. Good Popcorn flick. ***stars 2018 Movie 37
Peppermint: Revenge Movies just seem to appeal to me. ***1/2 stars 2018 Movie 38
First Man: Is a great movie that documents one of the moments in my life that I remember well. Great cast. Great story. ****1/2 stars , 2018 movie 39
A Star is Born: Great Remake with great actors. Lady GaGa will be up for an Oscar. ****1/2 stars
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Bad Times at the El Royale: Crazy fun and wild story. Loved it. ****star, 2018 Movie 41
Old Man and a Gun: Good Movie and good to see Robert Redford again. ***1/2 stars,
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Bohemian Rhapsody: Great Movie, Another Oscar proformance for Best Actor: ****1/2 Stars
2018 Movie 43 The Grinch: Good Christmas Movie Remake. ***stars, 2018 Movie 44
Green Book: One of the Year's Best. Mortenson for Best Actor, ***** stars, 2018 Movie 45
Widows: Gritty and Tense Movie, Great Cast and all made. ***1/2 stars, 2018 Movie 46
Crimes Against Grindelwald: Confusing Movie with no heart. Did not Care for any character and left half way through. Don't care how it ended. Great effects though. * star, **stars for effects.
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Instant Family: Almost a docudrama about Adopting Foster Kids. Important film. *** stars.
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Girl in the Spider's Web: Good James Bond type movie for a female lead. Popcorn movie.
***stars, 2018 Movie 49
Meg: Jaws in 2018, Larger, Better special effects, But not as creative. 2018 Movie 33, **1/2/ stars
MI Fallout: Mission Impossible can keep going just like the TV show. There must be something to Scientology. Tom Cruise doesn't look like 58. Fun Movie. 2018 Movie 34, ***stars
The Spy Who Dumped Me: Guilty Pleasure, Great Comedy but language was over the top. 2018 Movie 35, **1/2 stars
Equalizer 2: I love escapist movies that are smart. I also love Denzil. 2018 Movie 36, ***1/2 stars.
Here I find myself in 2018. In my youth the United States was seen as the good guys with the white hats. We protected the world. We nurtured our friends. We were the place where people could come to find freedom and the opportunity for new lives. Our enemies are Communist countries like Russia, China and North Korea. Our Fiends were Great Britain, Canada , Mexico and France. Germany and Japan was an enemy but have been friends for the last 30+ years.
And then we found a liking for black hats: I never thought I would see the time when the USA could not be trusted. Our friends are now bewildered and our enemies have smiles. We are no longer the world's good guys. We are the stuck up kids who think we are better than everyone not named Putin.
Woman Walks Ahead: Great Western with much history about the last days of Sitting Bull. 2018 movie 22 ***1/2 stars
Hotel Artemis Popcorn movie about evil people. No one worth shooting but they get it any way. **1/2 stars 2018 Movie 23
The Catcher is a Spy: True Story from WW2. See Ant Man in a meaty role as a spy sent to stop Germany from getting an Atomic Bomb. Great story. 2018 Movie 24. ***stars
Won't You be My Neighbor: A great documentary about the life of Mr. Rogers. Must See for me. it is ***** star 2018 movie 25
TAG: Also a true story although a comedy. Grown men who once a year play tag. Better than it sounds. 2018 Movie 26 I give it ***stars
Ocean's 8: true story (Just kidding) another version of the Ocean series this time with female cast. **1/2 stars 2018 movie 27
Sicario, Day of the Soldado: The sequel with the two main stars from the first. Just as gritty, violent and real. ****stars 2018 movie 28
Jurrassic World (the next): Fun with dinosaurs and Chris Platt. Great Popcorn movie. No dinosaurs were hurt making this even though it looks like it. 2018 Movie #29. ***stars for fun.
Incredibles 2: Yes it is fun too. ***stars, 2018 Movie 30
Ant Man and the Wasp: I am a fan because of the humor. Michael Pena is my favorite. ***stars 2018 #31
Solo: Yes I saw it again. Still good. 2018 movie 32
At first I didn't want to see this since I remembered the story so well. (I thought) When you add in the back story and the story of Tonya Harding's Mother and the tale of her boyfriend's friends. Wow!
Great cast and great story. It is ****star. 2018 movie 6
Black Panther
As tired as I get with Super hero stuff, I was grateful for this story with a great message for today. The Villian seemed more James Bond than some Destroying a city ending. ***** star.
2018 Movie 7
Annihilation
Alien arrival on earth or is it? A remote section of the country has been taken over by something and every scouting party that goes in vanishes. Now an all woman team goes in (2018). Good flick with Alien and Close Encounters elements. Enjoyed it. ***1/2 stars. 2018 Movie 8
Red Sparrow
Movie for today's headlines; Russian Spy stuff. Raw story. Well done. Hard R. **** stars. 2018 movie 9.
Gringo
Fun Stupid Movie. Great with popcorn. Great Fun. ***stars. 2018 Movie 10
Tomb Raider
Remake, since we are now requiring strong female leads. Laura Croft is back and the sequels are already planned. Fun action. ***stars. 2018 movie 11
My mind is filled up right now. Some changes were made in our local congregation of the Church. It may have been handled better than it was but I was surprised at the comments. ALL comments were about personal feelings. No issues drove the statements. "I was shocked." " I did not like that" "I was blindsided." "No one talked to me about this."
I know many prayers were uttered prior to the decision but I guess the prayers were addressed to the wrong address.
You and I like all the passages in the Bible about respect, responsibility, seeking the LORD's will over ours. But that's just theory, RIGHT. We don't have to wait on the LORD. We have our own opinions. MM
The 2017-2018 Movie season is in full swing. The best 2017 movies are just now getting to our town and just in time.
Jumanji, Welcome to the Jungle: This is a fun popcorn movie with action, comedy and a fun story.
Teenagers in Adult bodies caught in a video game. ***star 2018 Movie 1
Molly's Game: True Story with great cast and direction. Oscar material. It is freaky what the IRS can do. One of the year's best. ****star, 2018 Movie2
The Darkest Hour: True Story of Winston Churchill played masterfully by Gary Oldman. A key part of the story was his handling of Dunkirk (another recent movie). This is a great object lesson in what true leadership looks like. ****1/2 stars, 2018 Movie 3
The Post: True Story of the Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers were the forerunner to Wikileaks. While I was sweating the draft during the Vietnam War, The NY Times and the Washington Post were given Top Secret Pentagon documents by David Ellesberg that showed that the Vietnam war was not only unwinnable but they new it along time ago. Stephen Spielberg is masterful at telling this story. What makes this so timely is that it is the Press against the President and It is about a woman that heads a major company in a time when men ruled EVERYTHING.
Oscar stuff with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. This is 5 star. 2018 Movie 4
Downsizing: This was a good story that uses the idea of getting small (Think Steve Martin) to talk about whats important in life. Matt Damon stars but the story is the star. It makes you think about life's decsions and what is important. I give it 3 stars. 2017 movie 48
The Greatest Showman: This musical shows off the talents of Hugh Jackman (a great showman) who plays PT Barnam. Interesting story though taken out of order. Enjoyed: 4 star; 2017 Movie 49
All the Money in The World: J.Paul Getty is the point of the tale. The world's first billionaire who incidently hit his first oil well outside my hometown of Haskell. Sad soul and big waste of a man. Excellently done. 4 stars; 2017 Movie 50
The Shape of Water: Saved on of the best till last. One of my favorite movies as a kid was "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and he is back in this movie. At least the creature is identical. This is a great story: a love story between a creature (captured by the government in the early 1960) and a mute cleaning lady who is assigned to clean the lab where he is kept. This is well told with great detail. The 50's way of life is fully on display. Surprised by the nudity but it worked in the tale.
It is 5 star; 2017 Movie 51
For the first time in years, I did not make at least a movie a week (but close). I have many more to see to catch up before the Oscars. It was a great year at the movies
