UPPERCASE PRINT- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Mugur C?linescu, a 16-year-old teenager, writes another story on walls with chalked uppercase protest messages against the regime. His actions are compiled in a voluminous file kept by the Secret Police (Securitate), which observed, apprehended, interrogated and destroyed him. Linking both stories — secret and public, personal and collective — brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after the fall of communism.”
11/13/21- Reviews are just fair but it sounds OK to me. TRDB.
PAPER & GLUE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Using unexpected canvasses, artist JR intends to give a global voice to everyday people through a genre-blending combination of public art, photography and large format spectacle.”
11/13/21- Good reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed — with no way to recognize each other.”
7 PRISONERS– 2021. Synopsis by Netflix. “When 18-year-old Mateus learns about work at a scrap yard in São Paulo, he leaps at the chance to bring money home to his family in rural Brazil. But after he discovers that the job amounts to enslavement, he’s faced with tough moral choices.”
11/13/21- Excellent reviews from all. TRDB.
11/14/21- I agree with the critics- excellent and definitely worth a viewing. TRDB.
About human trafficking.
11/28/21- Excellent reviews for this documentary. I saw it and I agree! TRDB.
RED NOTICE- 2021. Synopsis by Netflix. “FBI profiler John Hartley’s latest assignment — to catch the world’s most wanted art thief — puts him in the middle of a heist and in league with another top art thief in a chase that takes them around the globe.”
11/13/21- Awful reviews by the critics and excellent ones from audiences. TRDB.
MAYOR PETE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Mayor Pete brings viewers inside Pete’s campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, providing an unprecedented intimacy with the candidate, his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team. From the earliest days of the campaign, to his unlikely, triumphant victory in Iowa and beyond. This film reveals what really goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land — and the myriad ways it changes the lives of those at its center. Recently appointed to U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Buttigieg serves as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet member in U.S. history.”
11/13/21- Fairly good reviews for this documentary and I liked it very much. TRDB.
LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE is three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. In the film’s first story TWO FOR DINNER, a married couple (Joanne Whalley and Chris Messina) find an unconventional way to transcend long distance through technology, but discover they were farther apart than they knew. In SAILING LESSON, a long-married couple (Kathy Baker and Marshall Bell) tries to reignite their honeymoon-phase heat through a spontaneous sailing trip… and unexpected events arise. And in LATE LUNCH, a young woman (Maya Kazan) who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends (including Cybill Shepherd, Rosanna Arquette, and Rita Wilson) to share memories. Surprising revelations ensue.
tick, tick… Boom- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. The film follows Jon (Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical. Days before he’s due to showcase his work in a make-or-break performance, Jon is feeling the pressure from everywhere.”
BELFAST- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “BELFAST is a movie straight from Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain.”
11/10/21- Very good reviews for this drama. TRDB.
12/1/21- I liked this movie very much. Lucky there were sub-titles. TRDB.
FINCH- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In “Finch,” a man, a robot and a dog form an unlikely family in a powerful and moving adventure of one man’s quest to ensure that his beloved canine companion will be cared for after he’s gone. Tom Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar event that has left the world a wasteland. But Finch, who has been living in an underground bunker for a decade, has built a world of his own that he shares with his dog, Goodyear. He creates a robot, played by Caleb Landry Jones, to watch over Goodyear when he no longer can. As the trio embarks on a perilous journey.”