I just saw Lady Bird and I LOVED IT.
I laughed, I cried (several times), I didn’t want it to end.
I only wish I could have seen it with my daughter (we both saw it, but not together.) She said, “It reminded me how hard it is to be a teenage girl.” I told her “It reminded me how hard it is to be a mother.”
I saw Three Billboards last night and while the acting and the film in general were excellent, it did have too much violence for me, @Midwest67. A very intense film.
“Bad Moms Christmas” . . . why oh why did I go see this. 
Every once in a while you see previews for a movie and think it looks good, funny, interesting, etc. Then you go and see it and realize that every single good, funny, interesting, etc. part of the movie was in the preview. The rest of it was nothing. Bad Moms Christmas seems like it is one of those types of movies.
Rotten Tomatoes can come in handy. It gives the movie 29%. Splat!
“Death of Stalin”. True black humor. You get more out of it if you know Soviet history, but it was pretty accurate and very funny.
Did you see the article about Svetlana Alliluyeva in the current New Yorker?
Darkest Hour. Gary Oldman became Winston Churchill. Gotta be an Oscar contender. Kristen Scott Thomas and Lily James were also very, very good.
Justice League was OK. Only about a dozen or fewer in Theater!
I saw Lady Bird yesterday and loved it. A few years ago I was all hyped up by media coverage for Boyhood. While I appreciated the novelty of filming over all those years, I was let down when I saw it. Lady Bird, OTOH, really delivered on the narrative of a high school senior transitioning to young adulthood and how the important relationships evolve during that time. Highly recommend!
D and I are going to see An American in Paris at the Kennedy Center on Sunday afternoon and then going to the 7pm Shape of Water movie at the theater. It’s looking to be a good day…
@beerme – thanks for the tip – DH wants to see Getting Started. Good to know.
Your ulterior motive for accompany your h to Just Getting Started …you will have leverage for something in the future he doesn’t want to do.
Darkest Hour had tension… with comic relief from WinstonC.
Will need to have subtitles on when I watch streaming in the future, I know I missed at least 25% of the dialogue.
Prime Minister Mumbles.
For those of you who didn’t get to Coco and want to see the much maligned 21 minute Olaf short…“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure” you are in luck.
It will be on tonite on your ABC channel at 8pm, but check your listing.
DVR it so your kids can watch it a few hundred times over the holidays.
Thank you for the PSA to avoid ABC tonight!! :))
It doesn’t seem like we’ve had a really terrific holiday movie come out for awhile. The last one I can even think of was The Holiday and that was over 10 years ago.
What about “The man who invented Christmas”?
I want to see Wonder and FINALLY got to see Battle of the sexes - I loved how they wove the three strands of the story, the actors, the way they recreated the 70s (how ugly the colors and the clothes aargh), and the comedy. The kids were absolutely shocked at the sexist comments (“men were horrible back then” lol) , thought there was “enough” action and comedy + totally got the points, and enjoyed the tennis.
What’s wrong with the Olaf short?
The Man Who Invented Christmas reviewed in post #805
The Olaf short was too long, delaying the beginning of Coco over 20 minutes… audiences got antsy and voiced their impatience.
Olaf can seem like the Jar Jar Binks of the Frozen franchise…but kids like him.
Am I the only person who strongly disliked the movie Frozen anyway? I don’t understand why it was so popular.
I don’t dislike it, but I am too puzzled about the hoopla. Certainly not the best Disney animated movie… not the worst, kind of average.
I think it is marketing. A couple of princesses and winter elements make it easy to sell holiday merch.