I just watched a good one on Netflix – Wicked Little Letters, with Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley. It got a well-earned 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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I saw Wicked Little Letters several months ago. The performances were good, but I correctly guessed the culprit in the scene with the first letter, so the plot seemed trite and formulaic to me.
Well, it’s based on a true event so they couldn’t really do much to it, I guess. But I’d watch Olivia Colman read the phone book 
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Thanks for this! We just watched it. Fun and quirky movie.
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I hope you saw the end of the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony.
There’s a hush when the music rises with the balloon of fire and a voice starts, then 320,000 gasps reacting together when they recognize the voice then hush again, to listen.
It’s goose bumps and heartbreaking and amazing, especially if you’ve seen the documentary.
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I have not. I will. I did see a clip, and people are saying she lip synched, which she might have. But she also may have been bolstered enough to do a song or two.
She didn’t lip sync (a fact check has been published recently), she had been preparing for a year and had said, if she ever songs again it’ll be for the Olympics and her main hesitation was whether she’d be able to do it health wise - she arrived 2 or 3 days early to rest, the day before she had a 1-hour rehearsal, and she sang the one song. It’s a challenge not to cry.
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Thank you for that. Yes! I saw a video yesterday where she was signing things and taking pics with fans. It made me cry. She’s so gracious. I’ve never been a fan of her singing but her humanity is not to be skipped over.
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Agree about Olivia Coleman! I thought the actress who played Rose did a great job too. I liked it. Quirky, funny but not funny. I don’t think it was supposed to be a mystery because pretty obvious from the beginning because of facial expressions.
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I teared up when she was singing the way I do when someone puts their all into it and wins a medal (or even does way better than expected). You could see her joy at just being there because that was her win.
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The Rose actress was in season 3 of Fargo. She was a psychotic nurse. We loved her in that too.
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Jessie Buckley’s performances in both Fargo and Wicked Little Letters were outstanding. She’s one to watch. (I couldn’t stop seeing Coleman as the Queen.)
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I kept seeing Olivia as the chef in The Bear 
Jessie Buckley also played Olivia Colman as a young woman in The Lost Daughter.
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I am watching Summer of Soul (Hulu). Totally amazing music! Thanks to Questlove for making it happen.
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H and I decided to go to the movies today and saw Twisters. We both thought it was a good movie to see on the big screen.
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We rented Arthur the King last night. super feel good movie about a dog. Mark Wahlberg is a struggling adventure racer and the abused dog latches on to him. It’s super sweet and if you love dogs, a good rental. Bring tissues even if you sort of know what will happen.
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M Night Shyamalan’s newest train wreck is The Trap. I really enjoy many of his movies, but this one is just filled with plot holes and it is obviously being used as a vehicle to promote his daughter. Josh Hartnett is very good working with subpar material, but he can’t save this movie.
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Visited the Chateau d’If prison recently and am looking forward to seeing the newest Count of Monte Cristo film.
(The castle-island-prison put up signs on 2 cells back in the 1860s to refer to the novel for all the tourists, who then left graffiti around the stones 
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I will report once I’ve seen it.
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It’s funny how everyone has different tastes, I havn’t seen it but my husband really liked it.
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I so wanted to like it!