I’ve not seen the original Wicked. Would I be able to follow the Netflix sequel?
Just saw Spider-Man- Brand New Day. Entertaining with awesome special effects. Only my MIL could say a superhero movie has too much dialogue 
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I’m not a fan of superhero movies (Wonderwoman was an exception), but the fact that siRNA is mentioned in the movie makes me want to watch Apparently, the mechanism of how it works is described somewhat scientifically correctly (nevermind delivery issues, but that’s expected!).
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It’s really one movie divided into two parts so the second half does depend on the events of the first half. I would not watch For Good as a stand alone movie; it would be confusing.
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I am a fan, and it would need to be a stinkeroo for me to not recommend it - Supergirl, I’m looking at you. But I really enjoyed Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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I saw Tony, the movie about Anthony Bourdain’s summer in Provincetown. I’ll give it a 4.5/5. Antonio Banderas = hot!
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Has anyone seen One Night Only? I am taking an elderly friend out to a movie. Wonder it’s suitable.
Ian (“Sandy”) Frazier is the brother of a dear long-time friend.
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I’m looking forward to watching this!
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NYT review
‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Review: A Daffy Corporate Comedy
A delightful tale that nails the tone of the Looney Tunes shorts while telling a new story, too.
gift link ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Review: A Daffy Corporate Comedy - The New York Times
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I saw it on Sunday- it was really well done!
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Took dh today to see The Odyssey at an Alamo Drafthouse for his birthday. I have very mixed feelings about it. Visually stunning, no question. Too long, IMO. Good enough acting. As a person who wears hearing aids, a lot of it was very difficult to understand the very low talking/almost whispering even with my hearing aids turned up.
The food was terrible, BTW. If we go to that theater again, we will not have a meal there, LOL.
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Antonio Banderas was so good in his role in Tony. I enjoyed the film. Not award-winning, but solid.
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Tonight I saw a screening of “The Cycle of Love.” It’s a documentary about PK, an Indian in the “untouchable” caste who moved from his village in the 1970s to Delhi where he makes his living making portraits of passers-by in a market. He meets Lotta, a small-town Swedish woman who is on the so-called hippie trail before university and meets and falls in love with PK in Delhi. Months later, he buys a bicycle and rides through India, Afghanistan, and Turkey to Europe and eventually Sweden (he is denied entrance to Pakistan but a woman he assisted after a car crash buys a plane ticket for him to fly to Kabul.) It includes the real-life PK and Lotte as they are now. They and the actor who portrays PK were at the screening.
Highly recommended.
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Not one utterance of “Rosy-fingered dawn.” The movie loses points for that.
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I can’t remember if we saw any rosy fingered dawns. Surely that counts!
So, I haven’t seen You Can See Everything, because I wasn’t at the Telluride film festival (it will be in theaters in October.) The movie is a documentary on Elizabeth Holmes, of Theranos fame. The trailer is quite creepy. And the few reviews coming out of Telluride are…interesting. Looking forward to seeing this one.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI
Review: Elizabeth Holmes Documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ Upends Telluride - The New York Times
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Definitely want to watch this one. I agree that the trailer is creepy! She has ties to San Diego (where I live) since her partner is the son of a family that owns high end hotels here.
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I saw MayDay, with Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, on Apple tv.
The kind of good silly fun you’d have with your family when going to the movies in the summer during the 70-80-90s. A buddy comedy with excellent action sequences - a cocky US Navy Pilot and a former KGB agent who’s a Top Gun fan try to cross Russia by car, foot, train, and tank. Don’t expect anything realistic and just enjoy the trip.
Canada and Hungary stand in for Russia and it’s pretty good (I think I recognized some statues from that park right outside Budapest where they have Soviet era statues! But plucked out digitally and pretending to be set in public spaces.
Mementopark)
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We saw the The Odyssey and I felt the same way about it. We did see it on IMAX and I thought it was too loud at times, but then again IMAX really does amplify the sound. Otherwise, it is a great movie to see on IMAX since it’s so visually stunning.
We have a theater near us that serves food and cocktails and you sit in really big comfy seats. We don’t go to this theater that much since the tickets cost more than the other theaters in our area (which already aren’t cheap these days) and if we do go, we usually don’t order food or drinks, since they’re quite expensive on top of the expensive movie tickets. Plus, the food isn’t really that good, especially when you consider the price and the cocktails aren’t anything special. Plus it’s a bit distracting having waiters bring you your food during the movie…
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