Disney +TV Review: **^She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

 In this show, the main character steps out of her role and talks to the author to solve her problems.  This felt like cheating and as a result I did not care for this series a great deal.  However having another Huk around is pretty cool.  She is in a car accident with Hulk and somehow their blood gets mixed.  Her being an attorney is interesting because she represents many super heroes.  She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters is portrayed by Tatiana Maslany.  

Movie Review: ****Damsel (2024)

 This movie is very enjoyable from the princess being sold? to another kingdom to marry the prince and keep the kingdom out of financial bankruptcy.  However there is more going on. than meets the eye.  Shortly after the wedding, Princess Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) is thrown by Prince Henry (Nick Robinson) off a cliff as repayment to an ancient debt to a dragon.  However Elodie refuses to give up too easily and she in fact escapes.  However she finds that the family has taken her younger sister, Floria (Brooke Carter) as payment now and thrown her to the dragon.  Elodie goes back to face the dragon again.  However now she knows the family secret.  Henry's mother, Queen Isabelle (Robin Wright) is complicit in this evil scheme.  They have been fooling the dragon for many years by mixing the prince's blood with that of the new bride as a wedding ritual.  The dragon has insisted on a maiden every year for many years.  

I really like the characters portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown.  They are always resilient and strong, but also gentle.  I think she is a great actress.  

This is a made for Netflix movie

Jesse Stone: Paradise Lost (2015)

 Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) opens an old case consulting for the Boston Police.  The murder was assumed one of a serial killer's, but that killer denies the murder and doesn't want to take credit.  So Stone goes about investigating, knowing something doesn't seem right.  But the murders have stopped so they must have gotten the right man.  But the fourth murder was carried out in the same way as the first three and the details of the first three were not provided to the public.  Slowly the pieces come together,  the murders were all of prostitutes.  Of course the last was a professional escort.  However the last victim's friend left the escort service, and she is the key.  And some of the file has been deleted.  

This movie is very enjoyable.  I enjoy the Jesse Stone character.  Also in this show (which is the last olf the Jesse Stone movies to date) ary many new and old but all interesting characters.  

Leslie Hope as Lt. Sydney Greenstreet is with Boston PD and gives Stone an opportunity to work as a consultant

Amelia Rose Blaire as Amelia who is the friend of the victim who fights for her life against the murderer

Alex Carter as a Boston detective

Mackenzie Foy as enny O'Neill as a troubled teen that Stone helps

William Devane as the psychologist Stone uses as a sounding board

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Tom Selleck Movie: ***Monte Walsh (2003)

 This is a made for T.V. movie with Tom Selleck as Monte Walsh, a long time cowboy who is struggling through a time when ranches are being taken over Consolidated Corporation.  He plays opposite Countess Martine (Isabella Rossellini) whose relationship is also changing because of the change in economics.  People react differently to change.  The representative of the corporation is Sam Brennan (William Devane).  Righting Joe Hooker (James Gammon) runs he and his horse off a cliff to their deaths. Walsh's partner in cowboying is Chet Rollins (Keith Carradine); but he leaves to get married and become a hardware salesman.   Shorty (George Eads) kills a marshall who has come to arrest him for a past bank robbery.  He then turns to stealing with a small band, and ends up killing Chet.   Shorty never breaks that one hard horse to break.  That horse is sold to a wild west company, but Walsh does ride him and break him.  He is offered a job in the show but declines not wanting to turn on himself.  Shorty has gone bad, rustling cattle.  He is without work.  Walsh catches up to him, but lets him go.  He and a partner confront Chet in town at the hardware store seeking money so they can run.  In the confrontation Shorty shoots Chet with a shot gun killing him.  Walsh is now on his trail.  However he hears his girl is sick.  He tries to go see her.  The Countess dies, probably of tuberculosis.  Shorty confronts him there knowing he would come.  This leads to the final gun battle.  

I found this film entertaining.  It was a bit slow at first for a western but overall it was good.  It also added the psychological piece of how people deal with change.  It was produced by Tom Selleck.  

Emily Blunt Movies

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

The Young Victoria (2009)

Gulliver's Travels (2010)

Salmon Fishing in Yemen (2011)

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

****^Into the Woods  (2014). Plays the part of the baker's wife in a Sondheim musical opposite James Corden

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) With Tom Cruise

The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

****A Quiet Place (2018) Terribly creepy, co stars with her husband John Krasinski

****^ Mary Poppins Returns (2018) She recreates the roll of Mary Poppins with as much magic as Julie Andrews.  Lin-Manuel Miranda also stars as the lamp lighter

****Quiet Place II (2020) We add the need to get someplace to the Quiet Place.  Co-star Millicent Simmonds, who plays the daughter is featured.

****Jungle Cruise (2021). Another Disney offering recreated the Jungle Cruise from Disneyland. Co-star Dwayne Johnson.

***The Fall Guy (2024) Stars with Ryan Gosling

At the Movies: ****Superman 2025

 David Corenswet stars as Superman in this version of the franchise.  Lex Luther (Nicholas Hoult) provides the villain and Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) the love interest.  Luther has a secret weapon.  Somehow he has cloned Superman, and so he has a genetic equal, and then with his coaching he has made a Superman one+.  However on Superman's side he has a crazy dog, with super powers.

The most important information comes to light when Lex Luthor breaks into Superman's lair.  They not only break all the robots, take the dog prisoner; but they also access the message from Superman's parents that Superman was to be a god.  The message was corrupted so Superman never heard that part of the message.

Luthor uses this information to have Superman arrested.  He then puts him with a being (Anthony Carrigan) that can replicate kryptonite which he does causing Superman to lose his powers.  But Luther goes too far when he murders a man in front of Superman and this being.  Luthor is holding the beings baby hostage.  He turns off the kryptonite and provides light to help Superman restore himself.  Then Superman rescues the baby and we are off to the races. 

In the meantime Lois Lane has recruited Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi) of the Green Lantern group which also includes Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion) and Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced).   Luthor has been making worm holes throughout the universe, for which he ultimately pays a big price.  He rips a tear in the fabric of the universe which threatens earth.  Superman attends to this while the Green Lantern group confront a military country that has been working with Luthor.  Superman also attends to Luthor.  It is the dog that destroys all the drones that let Luthor see the action so he can tell his clone what to do.

I think the relationship between Clark Kent/Superman is what makes this movie click in the end.  At the end they are sneaking off for an "interview" giving themselves a chance to kiss.  Fun stuff.  I am into all things superhero.

Tom Selleck Movie: ***^Her Alibi (1989)

 Tom Selleck as Phil Blackwood and Paulina Porizkova as Nina star in a romantic comedy.  Blackwood is in court looking for some inspiration at court for a new book.  He is a writer of detective novels and currently has writers block for three years.  Into court walks Nina, a Romanian citizen accused of murder by knife to the chest of a young man.  Blackwood sees in her a chance to come up with story ideas, so provides her with an alibi, and also brings her home to make the alibi seem reasonable.  In the meantime people are chasing Nina, trying to capture her.  A romance begins to bloom, if only Blackwood lives to take advantage of it.  Many things Nina does makes Blackwood think she may be trying to kill him.  This movie has some mild slap stick humor but the love story does seem to work.  If only they can get the people to stop harassing her.