Tag: movie

200% Wolf

This poodle is the runt of the pack and wants to make things better so calls on the ancient spirits to help out. A journey into out of space and explores good/ bad and the spirit world. Can be a little scary at times. I’m glad I had company at the cinema!

Dune 1

This movie was heralded by a music score with siren-like urgently persistent horn. This was a high tech sci-fi movie that spoke issues of war, displaced persons, bloodlines, leadership requiring strength of mind and body and the futuristic war concept of immortality shields to protect to leaders from alien attack and wearing of oxygen therapy nasal tubes on the planet of Arrakis. T’was a tear jerker but showed the protagonist (Timothée Chalamet) excelling in finding safe ground and in so doing finding his love interest (Zendaya) who was a reflective and strong personality and whom he had vivid dreams of the future. The movie however was quite bloodthirsty & violent and had a growing sense of fear. The couple of focus (Timothée Chalamet & Zendaya) were nonchalant characters under pressure which was beguiling and a redeeming feature.

Here is the Dune 1 trailer

Miracle Club (2023)

Great ‘doco’ type movie, with Dame Maggie Smith’s humour stripe. It showed the different stories of a group of women who knew eachother a little who went to Lourdes France for their cure, hailing from Dublin Ireland – whether their malady was obvious or not, and they grew in warmth and understanding of each of their true characters and what it took to be them.

Emily (2023)

In 2023 I watched the movie Emily, about Romantic period author Emily Brontë (1840s) who wrote the novel Wuthering Heights. The movie was awesome. I liked how Emily and brother Branwell yelled out on the Moors “Freedom of Thought”! This reminded me of John Henry Newman’s book (1852) The Idea of a University.

I also liked how she spoke French at home and spoke her mind with her sister when using it ( it sounded so delicate in the French tongue) and I liked how there was a twist in the tale at the end. The movie brought tears to my eyes, even in the nonchalant parts, I suppose as a precursor, i could sense the movie’s building of heaviness and the sense of gloom near the end. I like Emily’s sense of adventure and the theme of “ the greatest joy in life is love and be loved”.

What I loved about the movie was the fact that the father (the mother had died) and sisters and brother encouraged eachother to best their best person and to write! What a roller coaster ride of emotions in this movie! Worth seeing.

Elvis – Directed by Baz Luhrmann (2022)

Watched this recently with a friend and it was great. Who to blame for Elvis’ (played by Austin Butler) death at 42 to be up to the audience to decide, but it was expertly narrated by the manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) and he was made to pay fines to court in real life for squandering Elvis’ money on gambling. It was acted inspiringly by Austin Butler who really brought out the human Elvis who struggled with the misgivings of fame along with provocative direction by Baz Luhrmann. I was moved by supporting actress Olivia De Jonge for her excellent role as wife of Elvis – there were such strong scenes that brought tears. I really liked the spirit of Elvis and his “love” of the audience. Great soundtrack too.