Movie Reviews

Now who doesn’t just love being invited to a high-class wedding? The open bar cocktail hour, the delectable dessert pastries, and we can’t forget all those awkward conversations with people at our table with whom we have never met, nor would we probably ever speak to under organic circumstances.

The glitzy, highly rated Olympic Games, whether they be Summer or Winter for that matter, tend to be larger-than-life experiences that capture the attention of the world in record numbers. In fact, Three billion viewers during any said time worldwide!

Hands down one of the most popular actors and directors in the history of the cinema, Clint Eastwood is now 94 years young and it’s been rumored that this film “Juror #2” will be his final production in the famed Hollywood wheel.

If you are not a huge fan of all the dramatic Oscar bait films being pumped out into your local cineplex this time of year, then take a deep breath and exhale. You have been saved by this rock solid alternative, now in theaters.

With some of the busiest travel days of the year now upon us with Christmas and New Year’s, it is rather timely for Netflix to release their #1 streaming action-crime drama this week called “Carry-On”

Christmas Day is less than one week away now in case you no longer own a calendar, and the masses are always looking for a new holiday family film to add to their playlist.

In less than two weeks’ time, the jolly, chunky man with the white beard will be holding his breath, squeezing and shimmying that red velvet suit down our chimneys! Make sure you remember to leave those cookies and milk out on the kitchen counter. Although, in my house, they would never last long enough for Santa to get his share.

Without any doubt, or a second thought in mind, it is the absolute best time of the year! Dark by 4:30 p.m. 25 degrees outside at best, with a wind chill that makes it feel about 10. Frostbitten digits, while I work outside for my day job on the road, lying to myself that I am being hit with a tropical breeze. Mind over matter they say. Oh, and what a joy it is at the very thought of going home for the holidays in a few short weeks’ time with my chain-smoking family who not only can’t stand themselves, let alone me.

Could you imagine being born in the year 1937 and still working full-time in the current year of 2024? When you look at those numbers and put the math together, it just doesn’t seem really feasible, or does it?