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one also has good songs with a slightly less depressing story and thankfully adequate cinematography andrew garfield stars as the frenetic optimist jonathan larson who wrote this autobiographical story about trying to write his actual first play which never went into production the movie includes performers who starred in rent as well as cameos from other broadway performers the story pays homage to steve sondheim played by bradley whitford and one actual voicemail recording from sondheim himself if you like musicals and particularly larson s style of modern gritty but hopeful nyc musical this is a must watch i enjoyed it worth the true story of a lawyer played by michael keaton who specialized in assessing the value of human life he is hired to administrate the sept 11 compensation fund his job is to get 80 of the people to sign onto the fund if they don t then a the airlines may go out of business and b individual expensive lawsuits may result in some or many of the victim s families getting little or nothing and c it is good politically of course putting value on people s live makes the victims furious why is a ceo worth more than a janitor in human terms is the money symbolic compensatory punitive a coverup or a relief this was well made but rather long for a story that could have been told in a half hour television episode it doesn t hit that hard but tackles the subject well enough it s okay watching if it s on tv turning red a pixar movie about a chinese canadian girl who is going through puberty she discovers that her ancestor s totem of a red panda means that she actually turns into a big fat red panda whenever she gets emotional she has friends a tiger mother plans to see a boy band and assorted other relatives she has to undergo a ceremony to get rid of this new panda curse but until then she begins to control it and use it to get what she wants economically and socially this movie is a big old bunch of metaphors one of which is nearly explicitly spelled out in the film the first time she turns red and tells her mother to stay out of the bathroom her mother thinks she has had her first period and brings her medicine and pads while it doesn t get more explicit than that it is still quite a concept for a pixar movie but that s what this is all about isn t it she smells funny she can t control her emotions she has longings for boys she isn t in control of her body she hates how she looks etc etc metaphor anyone unfortunately aside from the metaphors the story and conflict are pretty banal she hides what she is doing from and lies to her over controlling mother so naturally there is a blow up and then some mutual understanding it s just that some of toronto circa 2002 gets wrecked in the process it s nowhere near as interesting as encanto but fine for younger kids no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fantasy movies review science fiction television sunday january 23 2022 logic wiz sudoku app to play sudoku variants logic wiz is an app to play 16 variations of sudoku probably more by now it was recently developed by avner and udi co founders of the company logic wiz for android and iphone most variants and levels are free with ad support some require payment there are other apps that offer sudoku variants i have not played any of these some of which have levels with the same variant ideas found in logic wiz however avner and udi created some original variants and they created handcrafted and implemented all of the boards in each variant the app works fine and has a nice interface with visual hints for newbies like me it comes in multiple languages eventually it is supposed to come with leader boards of some kind ios https apps apple com app logic wiz sudoku id1530683853 android https play google com store apps details id com uvmlab usudoku note i am not affiliated with them they sent me a premium enabled copy to play with no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels computer games gaming israel sudoku wednesday december 29 2021 movie reviews spider man no way home hearts beat loud jagged respect under the skin spider man no way home i find it impossible to review this without spoilers so here be spoilers tom holland is back as peter parker aka spider man and we pick up moments after the last movie ended his identity is revealed to the world causing him and all of his friends no end of trouble this is compounded by rumors that mysterio who spider man defeated in the last movie was actually the good guy while he spidey is the bad guy who caused all of the destruction and killed this great superhero for reasons unknown i guess those who believe this find new reasons to believe this as events in this movie unfold this is a political commentary i believe peter tries to get doctor strange to cast a spell that will erase the memory of his identity from everyone while strange is trying to cast the spell peter continually interrupts him with requests for changes to the spell mj should remember him and also aunt may and also resulting in a botched spell that strange has to contain while doing so he breaks small cracks in the multiverse enabling many villains from the tobey mcguire and andrew garfield spider man movies to appear apparently moments before these villains were killed in these movies none of this makes any sense but whatever naturally the villains are confused everyone in the mcu is confused except for doctor strange and so is everyone in the audience strange says that he and peter have to round these guys up with some mcguffin device that he has this turns out to be super easy barely an inconvenience while doing so peter and his bleeding heart decide to cure them and so save them from death when they get sent back to their own universes again this makes no sense strange disagrees so he and spidey fight spidey forces strange out of the picture for a while but also enables the bad guys to escape and regroup with one who received the cure helping to face off against the others who did not meanwhile peter s friends mj and ned try to call peter using some other mcguffin device only to end up bringing into their universe both tobey mcguire and andrew garfield s spider men or your friendly neighborhood spider man and amazing spider man much bonding inside jokes touching stories and mutual support ensues as well as a final battle that also brings back doctor strange peter has to make a final sacrifice in order for strange to fix the rupture in the multiverse this movie has broken records as the first pandemic era movie to get to 100 million on its opening day and the first to top 1 billion it is the second highest or tied for second highest rated mcu movie just behind black panther it squashes together not only a dozen villains characters and heroes into one movie ala end game but also squashes together three cinematic universes which is a sure fire crowd pleaser so i was prepared for another boring fan service marvel movie that is a well made and entertaining b shallow a collection of irrelevant actions scenes with superficial emotional growth c watchable but not good i am pleased to say that it is better than the usual marvel movies although still not a great movie it was entertaining well acted and well shot of course it was not too shallow the characters and the story moved and developed more than usual yes it was a collection of action scenes but the scenes between the kids peter and his friends and between the spider men were interesting and contained depth these are actual characters who have real backstories and real arcs to use as backgrounds for their reactions and dialog and this helped tobey and andrew were particularly welcome and captivating as was william defoe s green goblin still a few scenes with depth is not a deep movie like a real drama movie on the down side unless you have seen all previous spider man movies as well as the avengers infinity wars end game movies and some daredevil and maybe some other mcu television shows some of the backstories and characters will be new to you and therefore will have less depth you will then watch the film and feel less since these backstories with some notable exceptions are not explained this detracts from the movie for such viewers also the extended fight scenes while pretty to look at as usual were eye candy with little dramatic depth if you are a fan of these kinds of movies you will love this one if you are not you probably won t change your mind but it will not feel like a waste of time if you actively dislike these kinds of movies this one won t change your mind hearts beat loud a little independent movie starring nick offerman and kiersey clemons as father and daughter frank and sam sam and frank play music together informally in their house sam is off to college soon they create a song that frank thinks might give them a chance at music success so he pesters same into recording playing an maybe touring while sam is more interested in her new girlfriend and upcoming college this plays almost like a john carney movie once begin again sing street with original music interspersed with scenes and dialog pregnant with emotion the lyrics and music written by keegan dewitt counterpoint recapitulate or develop the story the movie and some scenes may be a bit slow and the story may be unoriginal but it is sweet the music is pretty and everyone does a fine job other featured actors include toni collette and ted danson who shine understatedly when they are on screen i didn t know anything about nick offerman before watching this other than that he is megan mullally s husband and a comedic actor of some kind it was a nice surprise to see him perform in an appealing comic dramatic role and do it well worth watching if it comes your way jagged a documentary about alanis morissette told in her own current voice and the voice of her band from the time of her childhood up until jagged little pill came out and upended music in the 1990s i have seen many documentaries about musicians lately this one stands out it might be because i love alanis music especially from that period or it may be that she is a great musician this is an important piece of music and it is a decent story not a fantastic story just a decent one a decent story seems to elude most other music documentaries alanis has famously distanced herself from this film saying that she was betrayed in its making and that it represents distorted facts i am not sure what her problem is and i wish she would clarify there are only two negative insinuations that she makes one is that she was involved with adult married men in the music business when she was 15 years old and that over time she has learned that these men took advantage of her and were in fact pedophiles and abusers i don t think this is a huge revelation since she sings about this in hands clean and other songs she does narrow down the people to specific times and companies where she was working in the documentary the other negative comment is about her all male band mates who attracted and slept with many female fans during their first tour which she found in retrospect to be distasteful and anti feminist again i don t think this is a huge revelation worth watching if you are into the subject at all at least until we hear some kind of clarification from alanis respect a biopic about arethra franklin the queen of soul music jennifer hudson plays arethra before she died aretha actually picked hudson to play her forest whitaker plays her father and marlon wayans plays her first husband marc maron plays the famous producer jerry wexler who releases most of her music and mary j blige plays family friend and singer dinah washington the movie takes us from youth until her 1971 amazing grace gospel performance this film follows the same cookie cutter story of every other musician biopic early struggles a troublesome marriage first success a fight with a music label that results in a change of labels a troublesome addiction too much success leading to bad behavior and a denouement that involves a re centering and launch into future success with a heartfelt performance at a special place maybe that s just the story of all successful musicians the movie hits all of these tropes without getting anything deep or original out of any of them its distinguishing factor is her struggle with religion and her deeply religious yet philandering father it was enjoyable while it is technically well done it is not amazing everyone does a fine job even if some parts of her life are left unexplained and unexplored and hudson is a great singer in her own right under the skin scarlett johansson plays one of two aliens she drags women and mostly men off into some kind of death or stasis in order to understand them or transport them to her planet or something she wanders around sometimes naked talking little weird scenes occur in some kind of odd space where her naked victims follow her as she walks on a flat surface while they descend step by step into some kind of black oil in which they float and can still see it must be metaphorical but i didn t see the point looking up on wikipedia from a synopsis of the book on which the movie is based the themes are supposed to be about animal cruelty environmental decay sexism and immigration i didn t get any of that from the film all i got was nice scenery tedium confusion lack of a comprehensible story arc and an unsexy look at scarlett johansson the film took a chance by being different from the usual sort of films we see it fails spectacularly but i give it some credit for that no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels movies review friday november 26 2021 movie reviews dune 2021 eternals the eyes of tammy faye the father king richard pixie spencer dune 2021 as an aside i saw this in a 4x movie theater and i can tell you that 4x movie theaters are not worth the extra cost every once in a while my seat vibrated slightly distracting me from the movie then i felt the seat kicking me in my bottom there are kids who will do that for free in regular movie theaters finally during a huge rain scene on film i felt a slight mist in the theater skip the 4x on the other hand this is a huge well made sci fi film of multiple worlds that deserves to be seen in a theater as for the story and characters the director dennis villeneuve and the rest of the staff do a great job enabling the characters to emerge the story retains its essential form while being accessible to people who have not read or forgot the book at least i think so it s possible that the emperor sending troops to aid the harkonnens fight against the atreides might get lost on someone who never read the book which is important but not critical at least to this movie which is only the first half of the novel the story dune is a 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