Tag: Woody Harrelson

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a wild ride

    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a wild ride

    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri came out in 2017 but I just saw it for the first time. I’m late to the party. It showed up on Hulu, where I watched it. I knew it was going to be good because it won so many awards at the time, but I was surprised by how…

  • Fly Me to the Moon review, fun comedy about the space race

    Fly Me to the Moon review, fun comedy about the space race

    Fly Me to the Moon built itself on top of real history with some comedy and romance added for spice. It’s about NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969. It’s a fun watch and brought back some vivid memories of that time for me, but it is not entirely factual. There are some…

  • The Edge of Seventeen: coming of age isn’t easy

    The Edge of Seventeen: coming of age isn’t easy

    The Edge of Seventeen is a few years old. I missed it the first time around. It’s back in the rotation on Netflix and Tubi, so I took a look. Hailee Steinfeld and Haley Lu Richardson are the stars of this teen drama about a girl dealing very badly with her outsized teen emotions.

  • Suncoast review, learning to live with loss

    Suncoast review, learning to live with loss

    Suncoast tells a semi-autobiographical story from writer and director Laura Chinn about a small Florida family dealing with the impending loss of a son and brother to brain cancer. That sounds grim, and in many ways it is, but it’s also about life and coming of age. It’s as full of life as it is…

  • Kate: Oh dear, are you bleeding?

    Kate: Oh dear, are you bleeding?

    Kate, trained assassin, knows how to do little more than kill people. When someone poisons her and she realizes it’s her last day on earth, naturally she kills more people in revenge. This bloody action thriller is on Netflix.

  • Revisiting All in the Family and the Jeffersons

    Revisiting All in the Family and the Jeffersons

    ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience with its iconic episodes of All in the Family and The Jeffersons brought up a lot for me.

  • Review: The Glass Castle

    Review: The Glass Castle

    The Glass Castle gut punched me when I read it about 10 years ago. It’s now a film. As a film, it still conveys the emotional wreckage of a dysfunctional family upbringing in vivid ways.

  • Review: Seven Pounds

    Review: Seven Pounds

    The coolest thing about services like Netflix is that you can see something old for the first time. Case in point: Seven Pounds. I spotted this 10 year old gem with Will Smith and Rosario Dawson among the new arrivals on Netflix and watched it immediately.

  • Watch This: Trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    Watch This: Trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri looks so good. So good. It stars Frances McDormand in a part that if it wasn’t written for her, it should have been. It promises to be wonderful, if the trailer can be believed.

  • Review: Now You See Me

    Review: Now You See Me

    Do you have fun at magic shows? Can you react to a trick with a 6-year-old’s sense of delight? If the answer is yes, you are going to really enjoy this magic show of a movie. Now You See Me is a magic act wrapped up in a heist movie and featuring a Robin Hood…