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Just finished watching two movies rented via "on demand", for about $3.99 and maybe $4.99. Much cheaper than the movie theater, which is $16.99. Plus I could rewind, stop in the middle, and eat whatever I want during. And talk back to the television screen. Granted my mother interrupted me twice with a phone call -- but we can't have everything.
1. If Beale Street Could Talk -- directed by Barry Jenkins and adapted from James Baldwin's novel of the same name.
This is the movie that should have gotten the Oscar nomination and won, not Green Book. The fact it is the opposite speaks volumes about our establishment and why the Oscars are well...
Anyhow, the film is about a young woman upon discovering she is pregnant, pulls out all the stops to attempt to get her falsely convicted lover released. It wasn't what I expected. It's told almost entirely through her perspective and through her mother and family's perspective. Regina King plays her mother.
The film made me angry, and is not a feel-good movie, but equal parts indictment, and an uplifting piece about hope, family, and making the best of a bad and impossible situation, despite the insurmountable obstacles in your path.
( plot spoilers )
Not a feel-good movie but a real one - that makes you feel the characters pain and their struggle.
2. Into the Spiderverse
Watched this as a palate cleanser for the first -- I needed something funny and positive.
This is the film that got the Oscar for best animated film -- and, it deserved it.
It's a brilliant piece of animation, blending multiple styles, to provide a complex and layered story. Along with a commentary on the comic form and superhero stories, showing why people love them so much.
If you are a lover of graphic art, animation, and the medium, this is a must see all on it's own. It blended at least five different animation styles and did it seamlessly. That, my friends, is hard to do well. I've seen other try it and they did not accomplish it nearly this well.
Also, it does a lovely job of commenting on the number and variations of a superhero, and why there are numerous variations -- making it both a joke, and also a theme. The over-arcing message is a simple one -- "we all can be heroes, if we choose to be, anyone can be Spiderman".
( plot set-up, not major spoilers )
It's comical at times, as the original Peter Parker makes fun of the plot, and Miles does as well. But the heart is there, and the art is amazing. I was blown away by it.
Highly recommend.
1. If Beale Street Could Talk -- directed by Barry Jenkins and adapted from James Baldwin's novel of the same name.
This is the movie that should have gotten the Oscar nomination and won, not Green Book. The fact it is the opposite speaks volumes about our establishment and why the Oscars are well...
Anyhow, the film is about a young woman upon discovering she is pregnant, pulls out all the stops to attempt to get her falsely convicted lover released. It wasn't what I expected. It's told almost entirely through her perspective and through her mother and family's perspective. Regina King plays her mother.
The film made me angry, and is not a feel-good movie, but equal parts indictment, and an uplifting piece about hope, family, and making the best of a bad and impossible situation, despite the insurmountable obstacles in your path.
( plot spoilers )
Not a feel-good movie but a real one - that makes you feel the characters pain and their struggle.
2. Into the Spiderverse
Watched this as a palate cleanser for the first -- I needed something funny and positive.
This is the film that got the Oscar for best animated film -- and, it deserved it.
It's a brilliant piece of animation, blending multiple styles, to provide a complex and layered story. Along with a commentary on the comic form and superhero stories, showing why people love them so much.
If you are a lover of graphic art, animation, and the medium, this is a must see all on it's own. It blended at least five different animation styles and did it seamlessly. That, my friends, is hard to do well. I've seen other try it and they did not accomplish it nearly this well.
Also, it does a lovely job of commenting on the number and variations of a superhero, and why there are numerous variations -- making it both a joke, and also a theme. The over-arcing message is a simple one -- "we all can be heroes, if we choose to be, anyone can be Spiderman".
( plot set-up, not major spoilers )
It's comical at times, as the original Peter Parker makes fun of the plot, and Miles does as well. But the heart is there, and the art is amazing. I was blown away by it.
Highly recommend.