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The Wild Life (DVD release in North America: November 29, 2016) Warnings—contains scary scenes for the very young In North America this generally innocuous kid’s movie, a three dimensional animation, is called The Wild Life. In others places in the world it is called Robinson Crusoe. Watching it you’ll get the point of calling it…

This is a cool-as workplace in the industrial side of the world. Life on a deep sea oil rig unfolds like another day, not at the office, but like a job at the quarry, with bonding through quips and casual remarks. I wouldn’t know the best one-liners here, but it does not seem to matter,…

Fighting for what’s yours is a theme of Woman in Gold (2015), a drama starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Bruhl. Maria Altmann, played by Mirren, is a retiree living in Los Angeles. She discovers a painting of her family’s had been stolen by the Nazis in the 1940’s. The painting, Portrait of Adele…

The story goes like this. In Pete’s Dragon (2016, out now on DVD) a boy named Pete and his mother and father have an accident on the way to a forest park. The boy survives and a dragon rescues him. Pete calls the dragon Elliot, a name taken from a picture book. For the next…

I watched a terrible movie about stupid humans; but casting aspersions on the braininess of human beings, which must include the audience, is never going to work. Unless the audience agrees that they are stupid. I do see the sense in making a bad spoof film about human braininess. If humans are dumb, this move…

One had been so very lost in life. Even the lowest one can go. No direction, no life, guilt, sorrow, despair. One wallowed in inaction and hopelessness in a cloud of depression. As unlikely as it may have seemed a solution came clear. The solution seemed incomprehensible, but a lost life is reclaimed and then…

A great theme: an Olympic film about the Sabbath There are good movies about the Olympics that the 2016 Rio Olympics brings to mind. Chariots of Fire (1981, Britain) is one of those good films, based on a true story. Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams are British runners competing in the 1924 Paris Olympiad. Liddell has…

Dev Patel plays a natural at mathematics in The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016, UK). The Man Who Knew Infinity is a true story and stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, Lion) and Jeremy Irons (The Mission, Reversal of Fortune). A natural Srinivasa Ramanujan, played by Patel, is an inspiration. Working on mathematics comes easy and…

In Ben-Hur (2016), trials comes in innocent packages when an incident appears to challenge the power of Rome. As a consequence, Messala (Toby Kebbell) accuses Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) of sedition and he is sent to the gallows. Messala is Judah’s adopted brother. Of course, betrayal upsets Judah’s brotherly affection for Mesalla and it shatters…

After reading up on movie premises (or ideas) of January released movies, a few take my fancy, The Book of Love, The Founder, The Red Turtle, and A Dog’s Purpose.  Here are my reviews of those premises. The Book of Love The Book of Love has the familiar sounding car accident to set the story…
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