Laura Dern, Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo took her hair cues from Dame Edna
Hope the sexual tension between Rey and Ben Solo doesn’t turn out weird like his mom and uncle…
Ya, no way Carrie fisher and Harrison ford could bring forth someone who looks like Ben Solo.
The magic of Hollywood…
The Greatest Showman is a movie that granny can take the preteeners with everyone happy if they like spontaneous breaking out in song and dance.
Granny will be fan girling on Hugh Jackman and the preteens on Zac Efron and Zendaya.
Uplifting message, toe tapping songs, energetic dance choreography and a emotional tear jerker so be prepared with tissues or you will be dabbing your eyes with your popcorn greasy napkins.
I would have cast Amy Adams not tepid Michelle Williams but maybe Amy and Hugh are too much song and dance power for one movie.
Hugh and Zac have plenty on screen chemistry…and Hugh still wows at 49 years old.
D and I saw the Shape of Water on Sunday, we both thought it was very good. Took the fam to see Star Wars yesterday, none of us were too impressed. Loved seeing Carrie and Mark but the storyline was tired and boring. We’d give it 1.5 stars on a 5 scale.
I like this comment so much! I found her terribly distracting, and unconvincing in the role.
Leia’s over-reaction to greeting Chewbacca this time was too much, especially given how she completely ignored him in the Force Awakens. Then again, she didn’t give him a well deserved medal in the first film.
Too much Mark Hamill in the first half - the years have not been kind, and his acting skills were never Alec Guinness caliber.
Overall, I enjoyed it, but thought it was long
I loved Laura Dern’s hair color. I’d like to do that to my hair- something subtle. 
I, Tonya is a very entertaining movie.
Mature teen and above because of realistic domestic violence (you find yourself wincing) and the swearing and cursing is 75% of the dialogue.
Margot Robbie, Allison Janney (wow), Sebastian Stan are excellent.
Little Man…yes.
Outstanding sound track, clothing, hair styles, and LaVona’s glasses will blast you to the past.
Very Fargo-esque.
I highly recommend Mudbound on Netflix.
Just saw The Darkest Hour (the Churchill movie) and loved it. I’ve read Gary Oldman got nicotine poisoning from all the cigar smoking!
call me by your name, lady bird, and I tonya
I couldn’t stand Laura Dern in that role. What were they thinking? Just terrible. I absolutely love women in roles of power, but she was just an awful choice for it. Weak, unbelievable. There are so many choices for powerful female actors out there. Cate Blanchett would have been great.
Finally got to see Darkest Hour, too, with DH (historian) and DS (movie buff). Enjoyed by all.
I loved the classic Churchill quotes that I’ve been reading all my life, and this one said not by him but about him: “He has mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.”
We saw Star Wars at theater. It was OK but had S groaning due to the many cliches in the movie.
So here’s a thumbs-down for LadyBird from both myself and my D. We wanted to like it, but we left thinking “did we really just spend money to see that?” Did they ever say what school she ended up at?
Watched To The Bone on Netflix and enjoyed it okay but the last parts were weird, like real weird. Hated the ending. Never saw her father.
“Did they ever say what school she ended up at?”
No, not that it really mattered to the story line. Greta Girwig went to Barnard, though, so I’d assume there is your answer.
Both generations were chatting this morning at brunch how much we all loved it.
Downsizing was one of those movies that if a friend asked if you liked it you would temper your opinion according to their tastes in movies.
Fans of Matt Damon will like this more than Suburbicon.
This movie was a no for me.
I thought Ladybird was fabulous. The mother character hit too close to home and watching the movie with my own daughter sitting next to me was very emotional. I occasionally fall into the pattern my mother modeled and feel awful.
Lady Bird is semi-autobiographical (Greta Gerwig has done the talk show circuit acknowledging it as such, though she says specific events and characters were fictional) – and one of the reasons it hit so close to home for me is that so much seemed to mirror my experiences as a parent the year my daughter went off to Barnard - so even though the movie doesn’t name the college, I’ve chosen to to interpret it as Barnard.
I thought the cliches were fine - it’s Star Wars. More than a couple of hard to suspend your belief moments. But I thought they did a good job with both the light saber battles and the starship ones. Lots of snappy dialog. We enjoyed it and thin picking apart everything that was wrong afterwards.