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The Commuter Movie Review

Though this genre is what Liam Neeson uses his particular set of skills best for, he may have wanted to take a pass on this ride for the better of the film.Ā  That said, I like anything he’s in and did enjoy him but there were times I felt he was cast only for his name and not for what would have been more plausible.Ā  Neeson is now sixty-five years of age and his character, Mike MacCauley, is sixty.Ā  It was hard to watch him, even using suspension of disbelief, fight an ax-wielding younger man and believe he could stay in the fight, let alone win.Ā  A lot of editing is used to make him look younger and capable, but we’re not fooled.Ā  Outside of tricks used to make him look like he’s a badass, there are a lot of other visuals that are too far-fetched to accept as real, however, they come with high intensity, so you’ll forgive every one of them.

The opening credits are excellent and are used creatively to introduce you, over a span of time, to Mike and his family.Ā  He’s working hard to pay the bills for him and his wife’s mortgage and also his son who is about to go to college and will be needing tuition soon.Ā  The credits also take you on his commute.Ā  Directly after the credits, Mike, an ex-cop, goes into his insurance job where he’s five years from retirement.Ā  He’s called into his boss’s office and is let go.Ā  The news is devastating as he already lives hand to mouth and has no nest egg to rely on.Ā  He goes and has a drink with Alex ā€˜Murph’ Murphy (Wilson) and tells him what happened.Ā  This is where the movie isn’t exactly subtle in a few hints it drops.Ā  At the bar, we also meet Captain Hawthorne (Neill), who Mike used to work with and who has now moved up in ranks.Ā  You won’t exactly miss some of the set-ups here. When Mike leaves the bar, he finds a seat on his train to head home and our adventure begins.

A woman by the name of Joanna (Farmiga) sits across from him and strikes up a conversation.Ā  He tells her that he’s married and she tells him that’s not why she’s talking to him.Ā  She explains that she studies human behavior and says she wants to know what type of person he is by asking him one questions.Ā  That question is if she asked him to do something, anything, would he do it?Ā  He, of course, wants to know what type of thing.Ā  She tells him and also says that a reward would be offered but he’d never know the consequences of his actions.Ā  What she needs is for him to find someone on the train that doesn’t belong.Ā  His interest is piqued and yours will be, as well.Ā  What he is to do when he finds this person is plant a tracking device on a bag that they are carrying.Ā  He’s offered $25,000 for taking it and an extra 75,000 upon completion of the task.Ā  He does suspect that something isn’t right but having just lost his job, a $100,000 payday sure sounds nice.Ā  He has until the Cold Spring stop to finish the deed.

Having accepted the assignment, the film slows down a bit as he wades through the trivial, even boring characters on the train with him.Ā  I have to mention to be on the lookout for a certain Goldman Sachs reference you might appreciate.Ā  Anyway, with threats now coming from Joanna, he’s getting more and more crazed and desperate as he searches for the mystery man.Ā  Eventually, Mike decides he’s not going to find who Joanna wants him to for the reason she wants him to.Ā  Once a cop, always a cop.

There are a great many clichĆ©s in the film and you’ll recognize Collet-Serra’s ode to Hitchcock films but herein lies the fun even though a lot of the CG and hand-held camera work is quite bad at times.Ā  As we move along the tracks our story builds and our energy is heightened.Ā  The movie is always engaging.

You’ll have a lot of fun with The Commuter especially if you’re a Neeson fan and if you are fascinated with action movies that are way over the top.Ā  Again, if you’re a fan of Liam Neeson, you can’t skip what’s sure to be the last of this genre for him.Ā  He’ll give you his all, as he always has, even if this isn’t his best.

 

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Hostiles Movie Review

Hostiles is an engaging western narrative about a stiff and reluctant Army Captain and his journey to tribal lands with a war chief he loathes.Ā  Yes, I did say western, something you don’t see very often.Ā  No matter what genre of film you might deem your favorite and which you’d usually steer clear of, I must insist you look at all of the players involved in this project and consider seeing this even if it might go against your grain.Ā  It made my and many other film critics top movies of the year list.Ā Ā  Hostiles stars Christian Bale as emotionally charged Captain Joseph Blocker, who couldn’t be more indignant and hateful if he tried.Ā  The film is set in 1892 at a time when men like Block have been hardened by years of fighting native Americans, taking their lands and destroying their lives.Ā  Block practically regards them as subhuman.

Older now, the job he is assigned to at his post is that of the jailer.Ā  Currently, he’s at a prison in New Mexico where he’s anything but kind to the natives he leaves them in exposed cells to bake in the sun all day.Ā  One of those natives is Chief Yellow Hawk (Studi), who he despises from previous battles.Ā  For the first time in his years with the Army, he gets an order that he’d rather not fulfill.Ā  He is asked to escort chief Yellow Hawk, who has been imprisoned for seven years and is now riddled with cancer, to Montana to die and be laid to rest in his tribal burial site.Ā  The president, in an attempt to right things with the Cheyenne Indians, is asking this of Block yet even this personal request doesn’t help get through to this soldier who is very set in his ways.Ā  He’s against any native, let alone this once great warrior, being allowed to contrive, petition for and obtain such an honor.Ā  With his future benefits on the line, he unenthusiastically gets a team together to be the chaperone for the chief and his family.Ā  The moment they’re out of sight of the compound, he shows them who he really is.Ā  He humiliates Yellow Hawk by putting him in binds and by cutting of the female’s hair.

While on their trek, they come across Rosalie Quaid (Pike), a young mother whose husband and children were recently murdered by some very hostile Comanche warriors.Ā  Usually quite hostile himself, Blocker shows empathy for the woman when he notices she clutches to and tends to a dead infant as though it were still alive.Ā  Bale brings one of his best performances as he shows a strong aura of altruism and expresses goodwill and humanity in slight gestures, revealing how deeply he understands what the woman is going through and how fear, anger and the loss of love got her to where she barely hangs on by a thread.Ā  Earlier in the film, we see what she and her family go through when the Comanche happen upon them.Ā  Though it isn’t overly gory, it is jarring when they’re killed.Ā  Unable to leave her behind, Block has Rosalie join them and a friendship develops.Ā  I must mention that much like the terrain they ride, Pike’s character has so many peaks and valleys that I wouldn’t be surprised to see her end up with an Oscar nomination.Ā  The individual she portrays is challenging and with her performance, she meets every one of her challenges.

At a post they stop at for the night, Blocker picks up an Army Sergeant turned vicious criminal, Charles Wills (Foster), who needs to be transported to Montana to face trial.Ā  Blocker does this believing Wills will be someone he could easily handle since Blocker was above him as they served in battle together.Ā  Surely they will understand one another.Ā  However, when Wills sees that Blocker has grown a little soft, actually speaking to the natives in his charge, he escapes, and the film gets bloody once again.

Through rhetoric that comes from Block and Wills, and as the film progresses, you’ll realize one thing above all else about why this film was made.Ā  It’s a strong reminder that this country has been fighting in a war and for a long time… that war is Racism.Ā  Blocker and Yellow Hawk have a moment of genuine respect and a mutual meeting of the minds and in that scene, you watch the significant message America needs to hear play out.Ā  If westerns of the past didn’t make it clear, this film makes it crystal.Ā  The natives have been horribly mistreated and judged unfairly but it is possible to peacefully coexist and we must if we’re going to find peace in this world.Ā  It’s through peace and understanding that all things are possible.

Journey’s End – Trailer

Directed by:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Saul Dibb

Written by:Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā Simon Reade (screenplay), based on the Tony Award-winning play and novel by R.C. Sherriff

Produced by:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Guy de Beaujeu and Simon Reade

Starring:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Sam Claflin,Ā Asa Butterfield,Ā Paul Bettany,Ā Toby Jones,Ā Tom SturridgeĀ and Stephen Graham

Cinematography:Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā Ā Laurie Rose

Editor:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Tania Reddin

Production Design:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Kristian Milsted

Release date:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā March 2, 2018 (In NY and LA with nationwide expansion to follow) March 9 in PHX

Synopsis:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope (Claflin). With a German offensive imminently approaching, the officers (Bettany, Graham, Sturridge) and their cook (Jones) use food and the memories of their lives before the war to distract themselves, while Stanhope soaks his fear in whiskey, unable to deal with the dread of the inevitable. A young officer, Raleigh (Butterfield), arrives fresh out of training and abuzz with the excitement of his first real posting – not least because he is to serve under Stanhope, his former schoolhouse monitor and the object of his sister’s affections. Each man is trapped, the days ticking by, the tension rising and the attack drawing ever closer…

Runtime:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 107Ā minutes

Rating:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā TBD
US Distributor:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Good Deed Entertainment

In Theaters March 9, 2018

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Hostiles Advance Movie Screening

Movie Screening Summary: Set in 1892, Hostiles tells the story of a legendary Army Captain (Christian Bale), who after stern resistance, reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) and his family back to tribal lands. Making the harrowing and perilous journey from Fort Berringer, an isolated Army outpost in New Mexico, to the grasslands of Montana, the former rivals encounter a young widow (Rosamund Pike), whose family was murdered on the plains. Together, they must join forces to overcome the punishing landscape, hostile Comanche and vicious outliers that they encounter along the way. Hostiles is directed by Scott Cooper (Black Mass, Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart) and produced by John Lesher (Black Mass, Birdman, Fury) and Ken Kao (The Nice Guys, Knight of Cups). The film stars: Christian Bale (The Big Short, American Hustle, The Dark Knight) Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Jack Reacher), Wes Studi (Avatar, Heat, Geronimo), Adam Beach (Suicide Squad, Flags of Our Fathers), Ben Foster (Hell or High Water, 3:10 to Yuma), Q’orianka Kilcher (Unnatural), Tanaya Beatty (Twilight), Jonathan Majors (Do Not Disturb), Rory Cochrane (Black Mass, Argo), Jesse Plemons (Black Mass, Bridge of Spies), TimothĆ©e Chalamet (Love the Coopers, Interstellar), Paul Anderson (The Revenant, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows), Ryan Bingham (Crazy Heart), David Midthunder (Comanche Moon), John Benjamin Hickey (Get on Up, Pitch Perfect), Stephen Lang (Avatar, The Nut Job), Bill Camp (12 years a Slave, Birdman).

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All the Money in the World – Movie Review

ā€˜All the money in the world can buy you many things, but it can’t buy you love.’  Isn’t that how the saying goes?Ā  Perfect title for this film because this movie is that very statement come to life.Ā  With this project, director Ridley Scott has taken on a story about oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.Ā 
Getty has amassed a great fortune, has become the world’s first billionaire, and has become hardened to love.Ā  Since he has so much money, more than he could ever spend, it seems everyone wants a piece of it.Ā  People even send him letters, on a daily basis, pleading their case to see if he’d be willing to give them a few dollars to get them out of their current woes but his prosperity has one nasty side effect… greed.Ā  In his greed lies the true heart of this story.

Early in the film, you see a little history on Getty, who’s played magnificently by Christopher Plummer, and how he gained his wealth.Ā  He made deals for Saudi oil and then brought the oil out of the desert by creating a supertanker to carry it all out.Ā  His intellect and understanding of how finance works then made his money grow.Ā  Scott takes us to May of 1973 where one of Getty’s favorite grandchildren, John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer; no relation to Christopher), is kidnapped.Ā  The kidnappers want seventeen million dollars for his safe return.Ā  The kidnappers try to get the money from his mother, Gail Harris (Williams), who is divorced from Getty’s son.Ā  She doesn’t have seventeen million dollars so she tries desperately to get the older Getty to understand what Paul’s life means to her.Ā  She points out that she and Paul aren’t people writing a letter to him to try and get a piece of his fortune but instead that Paul, his own flesh and blood, is in real danger.

For foreshadowing on who Getty has become, we cut to nine years earlier where Getty is explaining to his young grandson that everything has a price.Ā  To his own son, John Paul Getty II (Buchan), he explains why he was never home.Ā  He had a business to run and he couldn’t be ā€˜weighed down’ with family.Ā  Pay close attention to the wonderful dialogue in the script regarding money and who Getty considered himself to be.Ā  Plummer is priceless.Ā  The film originally had Kevin Spacey cast in the role of Getty but after he was accused of sexual misconduct, Spacey was replaced with Plummer who seemed so perfectly cast you can’t imagine Scott ever had someone else in mind.Ā  Plummer’s stone face and cold heart, when it comes to what should be an easy decision to make, were almost frightening.

Getty gives a reason why he has decided not to pay to get his grandchild back.Ā  The main reason is that he has fourteen grandchildren and if he pays for one, they may all be kidnapped.Ā  During this period, he buys millions of dollars’ worth of collectibles that appreciate in value, but people aren’t profitable so therefore expendable.Ā  Getty does allow Fletcher Chase (Wahlberg) his assistant, an ex-spy who specializes in negotiations, to help try and retrieve the boy from the kidnappers without it costing Getty a penny.Ā  Wahlberg and Williams have great chemistry.Ā  This chemistry builds with the stress of her plight and a relationship between them builds with the stress of her plight.Ā  It continues throughout the rest of the story when Chase shows more feeling toward what she’s going through than Getty does.Ā  Time goes by and the kidnappers get more and more anxious.Ā  For the audience, the tension increases with every one of their unmet demands.Ā  The price is dropped yet still Getty refuses to pay.Ā  One of the kidnappers shows warmth for the boy but even this doesn’t save him from getting an ear removed.

Scott does a sensational job of juggling the story of desperate kidnappers, the frightened abducted youngster and almost despondent mother who, in dire straits, still hangs on to hope that she can get through to Scrooge.Ā  She never cries for Getty, instead, illustrates for him how Paul having the Getty name is what has put him in danger and that Getty, himself, has some responsibility to help him.

All the Money in the World is definitely one of the best pictures of the year and Plummer’s performance is easily one of the best of the year, as well.Ā  It comes out today, Christmas 2017, and I recommend you see it as a gift to yourself.

Molly’s Game – Movie Review

Molly’s Game is an incredibly intelligent film.Ā  It’s the true story of an Olympic-class skier, Molly Bloom (Chastain) who, much to the chagrin of her father, Larry (Costner), who wanted her to be a lawyer, ended up running an exclusive high-stakes poker game and eventually needing a lawyer herself.Ā  That lawyer is Charlie Jaffey (Elba), one of the best in the area.Ā  Before I get any further into the story, I’ll tell you more about the performances of Elba and Chastain.Ā  First of all, the chemistry between them is palpable; very strong.Ā  They’re totally in sync with one another and they absolutely must work together more often.Ā  Once audiences see this movie, they’ll agree and demand it.Ā  Jaffey is a criminal defense lawyer who agrees to work for her, on credit, essentially.Ā  After some pleading and reasoning, just short of begging, on her part and after he sees how she has been rooked, she convinces him to do what’s right for someone other than himself and his bank account.

She was a game runner in L.A. and N.Y. and was very successful.Ā  At her tables sat art dealers, rappers, politicians, Hollywood elite and unbeknownst to her, Russian mobsters and the FBI.Ā  After being incredibly safe, or so she thought, controlling everything that went on at her tables, she gets caught.Ā  The girls she hired to bring in clients, a job she first had before going on her own, were always professional and she stayed close to the clients but never mixed business with pleasure.Ā  Regardless, she awakens to a phone call in the middle of the night.Ā  The FBI is at the door with a warrant for her arrest.

The movie starts with her explaining how many times she has beaten the odds.Ā  After getting to know her, you begin to explore the idea that this time she hasn’t.Ā  However, as the story progresses, you’re sure her luck will pull her through.Ā  The saying isn’t Lady Luck for no reason, right?Ā  As I say that, I’ll add that what’s glorious about the script is as soon as you’re sure all will work out for her, again, something happens that has you doubting it.Ā  No matter, you’re rooting for her to come out on top but Jessica Chastain always has a way to pull you into the characters she portrays.Ā  Even with the fact that Molly could be technically breaking the law, you are still on her side.Ā  You’re hoping Jaffey will find a loophole in the system that will have her safe and sound.

Molly wanted to go to law school as much as her father did but chose to follow a path of getting out of the house and getting rich fast instead.Ā  In the beginning, when she’s getting into poker, she doesn’t think she’s breaking the law.Ā  She’s running games only for tips and not taking a percentage, which is where the law is broken, but when she gets paranoid, things change fast and the more her games bring in, the more people want a piece of it and of her.Ā  It’s through reading her memoirs and hearing the rest of the story, such as how deep she was into the Russian mob, that Jaffey decides he must prove her innocence… even despite his client.Ā  For the first time in her life, someone doesn’t want a piece of her.Ā  Jaffey believes in and sees her as a person worth saving.Ā  How does she see herself?

ā€˜Molly’s Game’ is fast-paced, thrilling and turns the game of Texas Hold ā€˜Em into something to be envied.Ā  The dialogue intricately explains the game and by the time you’re done watching the movie, you’re practically ready to head to Vegas.Ā Ā Check this movie out as soon as you can.Ā  The acting is fantastic, the script is Oscar worthy and, as I’ve made clear, it’s virtually impossible to lose interest.Ā  As the story progresses, you believe the good luck that has always followed her terribly bad luck, will pull her through any situation but as soon as you’re certain, more bad luck befalls her.Ā  It’s maddening but a good time.Ā Ā After watching it, you might feel compelled to Google Molly Bloom and see who the real players are.

Alan Sorkin, known more for writing ā€˜Jobs’, ā€˜The American President’ and ā€˜A Few Good Men’ and producing such titles as ā€˜The Newsroom’ and ā€˜The West Wing’ makes his directorial debut with this film and treats the story right by giving you the complete story, leaving no stone unturned.Ā  You’ll agree that from now on, Sorkin should always direct what he has written instead of putting others in charge of something he’s clearly capable of doing himself.

I, Tonya – Movie Review

Tonya HardingĀ always wanted fame and wanted to be a household name but not from being a criminal.Ā  She wanted to be known for her skills on the ice.Ā  She wanted the world to know she could perform one of the most difficult jumps on a pair of ice skates ever.Ā  At the time, she was the only woman to be able to perform, the nearly impossible to landĀ triple axel jump.Ā  Only a few people had been able to master it when she discovered she could.Ā  The jump is well described in the film by a proud Tonya.

This film is shown in more of ā€˜mockumentary’ style, such as ā€˜Best in Show’ and ā€˜Spinal Tap.’  It bounces back and forth between showing you Tonya’s life, characters talking about ā€˜the incident’ and about Tonya herself who was played with measured empathy by Margot Robbie.Ā  To be honest, by the end of the film, you want to stand up and applaud Tonya for having made it through childhood.

Her trash mouthed, chain-smoking mother, LaVona Golden, is played remarkably and frighteningly well by Allison Janney.Ā  She was always frigid and never lovingly supportive, but don’t say that to her face.Ā  She was never going to be the parent of the year so Lavona embraced the challenge fully to see how bad she could be… or so it seems in the film.Ā  She put tiny Tonya on an ice rink when she was only four years of age.Ā 
An abused child, Tonya tried her best to please her mother but never really could.Ā  Her coach knew she was too young but did accept the child, however, acceptance only went so far.Ā  Being that LaVona worked as a waitress and didn’t have much of an income, Tonya was never fully welcomed in the ice-skating circles, not by the other skaters and certainly not by the judges who prefer the girls look like princesses and not paupers when they’re on the ice.Ā  Try as she might to get people to like her and grade her on her talent, not on her wardrobe, they never did.Ā  This rejection was something that followed Tonya from day one through her last day on the ice in competition.

LaVona treated her daughter with as little kindness as possible so that she got used to it.Ā  Life wasn’t going to be easy and she didn’t want her daughter to be weak and unable to handle anything that came her way, so instead of giving her words of encouragement in a loving manner, she emotionally injured her with words that pained and hurt her.Ā  Listening to her convey her thoughts about Tonya was uncomfortably amusing and Janney made the situation almost laughable; that a mother would speak such things of her daughter was unfathomable.Ā  Watching her treat Tonya so horribly through the years, in the flashback scenes, was shocking but not really funny.Ā 
Instead of making her tough, it made Tonya bitter and sent her into the arms of the first man who would have her, Jeff Gillooly (Stan), who was mentally and physically abusive, which was exactly what Tonya knew.Ā  Theirs is a volatile relationship, with bigger downs than ups, but he supports her dreams, as much as a narcissist can.Ā  When he gets violent enough to make her leave, he always sweet talks her into going back.

I don’t want to give away exactly how we find out Jeff is involved in the incident and how involved Tonya is in taking skater Nancy Kerrigan out of the picture for the Olympics, in case you don’t know.Ā Ā  I will say that actor Paul Walter Hauser’s, Shawn Eckhardt, has to be one of the biggest boobs in the history of film, and you’ll love his character.Ā 
Watching this all play out, Jeff and his goons complete incompetence and inability to keep a story straight, is well worth the purchase price, as is all of the acting and the CGI involved in creating the jumps.Ā  There’s not much you won’t like about the film.Ā 
It’s a tragic story presented as a comedy much like Tonya’s life itself.Ā  In the end, she didn’t like being famous.Ā  In the end, she was a punchline.Ā  The deck was always stacked against her… she never stood a chance.

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The Greatest Showman Movie Review

This movie is incredibly entertaining. The only reason you would maybe consider not seeing it is if you don’t like good music and if you don’t want to be entertained. The story is fantastic, the performances are glorious; it’s a legitimate musical and a captivating yarn, as well. Director, Michael Gracey, did an exceptional job handling the script by bringing the story of a man who dreams big and makes big dreams come true. You’d probably think it’s impossible to make a compelling musical about the beginning ofĀ The Greatest Show on EarthĀ but Gracey did just that and made one of the greatest romances of the year, too.

The beginning number prepares you instantly for something extreme and magical. Once you’re fixed and ready, you get just a spectacular show and much, much more. In fact, it isn’t inconceivable that everyone in your row will be tapping their feet and singing along to some of the tunes as they’re quite easy to pick up on. Directly after the screening I attended, I went to the nearest store that carried the soundtrack and bought a copy. I have been listening to it in my car ever since. Some songs are better than others but they’re all good and knowing the lyrics, I can’t wait to see this again.

Gracey takes us from Hugh Jackman, asĀ P.T. Barnum, singing ā€˜The Greatest Show’ into ā€˜A Million Dreams’ where young Barnum is a poor child in love with a rich man’s daughter… and she with him. They sing together as he ages and becomes a man of the same dreams of having it all in the world he designs for himself, and more.
The song ā€˜The Other Side’ is very memorable. Phillip Carlyle (Efron) and Barnum dance in a well-choreographed scene where Carlyle, a rich socialite who enjoys theatre, is being asked to join the show. Realizing he needs a business partner who can bring his theatre more attention, Barnum approaches him in a creative scene as they work out the details. Pay attention to the bartender as the number progresses.

A theatre critic who comes to the show abuses Barnum on a regular basis but the dialogue when he’s on screen, as well as the interaction between them, is some of the best the film has to offer. You’ll appreciate the irony created by his presence. He considers the show Barnum has put together to be a circus and Barnum capitalizes on that. He’s protective of his performers but embraces the idea of bringing more people in, using the word circus to describe what the audience has to look forward to. Once he does, the show explodes and it becomes instantly more popular and profitable.
Sadly, when some performers get cut out of fancy champagne galas, they begin feeling like the sideshow freaks he sells them as.

I could go on and on but maybe you should just see it and hear it for yourself. I promise you that you’ll be blown away by Jackman, Williams and Efron and the rollercoaster of emotions that you go through watching this person try to be the World’s Greatest Dad, as well as have the Greatest Show on Earth. The film is engaging, stimulating, and quite humorous at times and I haven’t even told you about the best song! I’ll let you discover that on your own. See this with the family, or better yet, cuddle up with the one you love.Ā  Either way, you’ll appreciate every frame, note and routine and if you enjoyed La La Land, these two musicals share the same lyricist so that’s another thing for you to consider.Ā  My recommendation is, see it at the theatre and see it as soon as you can!

SICARIO 2: SOLDADO Official Teaser Trailer

SICARIO 2: SOLDADO is in theaters June 29, 2018.

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In Sicario 2: Soldado, the drug war on the US – Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border.

To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) reteams with the mercurial Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro).

Witness the next chapter of the Sicario saga in theatersĀ June 2018.Ā #SoldadoMovieĀ #SicarioNeverDies

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In Theaters June 29th, 2018

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