Music Review: Pepe Aquilar, La Historia, Mis Exitos

Pepe Aquilar, La Historia, Mis Exitos, Balboa Records, USA, Discos Musart, Mexico, 2009. 

Pepe Aguilar has a very unique voce and his music almost sounds like country.  He sings some great ballads.  It has lots of story telling.  "Directo al Corazón" deals with a woman who left him high and dry for a richer companion.  "You left me for some coins, you didn't want to support my poverty."  "Por Mujeres Como Tu" "For women like you there are men like me". He sings of giving too much and his heart being crushed as a result.  He sings to sing a lot about relationships gone bad,  "Recuerdame Bonito" talks of the letter he writes to his girl goodbye.  "I'm leaving" "me voy". 

I hav e enjoyed this C.D. immensely.  He is a very good singer and plays music that can be in the background or the foreground.  

Movie Review: ***^ It Happened One Night (1934)

 Oscar Best Picture winner 1934.  Peter Warne (Clark Gable) is a reporter just fired, but is onto a big story.  Heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is running away to marry her intended, King Westley (Jameson Thomas).  Her father, Alexander Andrews (Walter Connolly) does not like the intended.  And so Warne travels with Elli. Andrews from Florida to New York keeping her safe and out of trouble with the hopes of scoring a big story.  And he comes up with the story but as will happen, plans get mucked up.

A cute movie with true love vs. convenient love.  The father discovers the true love and works to make it happen, letting his daughter know there is a car waiting she can use.  This is Runaway Bride the prequel.  

In Theaters: ***^ Daniel and the Fiery Furnace (2026)

 I enjoyed this movie.  I really liked the way they made the fire, and four people standing in the fire, so Jesus was with the three.  The King is forced to throw them in when some of his priests trick him to declare a law thag all must bo to the statue of the king.  Luckily God was able to intervene.  

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  Mena Massoud

  Daniel
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  Elijah Alexander

  King Nebuchadnezzar
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  Roberto Zenca

  Jeremiah. The prophet
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  Sophia Decaro

  Susanna. fictional sister of Jeremiah the prophet and friend of Daniel
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  Sunjay Midda

  Hananiah

  /Shadrach
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  Adam Lahraoui

  Mishael

  /Meshach
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  Zaki Ali

  Azariah

  /Abednego

Clint Eastwood Movie: ****^ Cry Macho

 This is an excellent Clint Eastwood directed, produced and starred in movie.  Mike Milo (Eastwood) is sent by his old boss, Howard Polk (Dwight Yoakam) to Mexico to retrieve his son.  He has legal issues and cannot go.  He finds the mother and talks to the boy's mother Leta (Fernanda Urrejola) who says if he can find the boy, he is free to take him.  He finds him Rafo (Eduardo Minett) at the cock fight.  He shows very little respect, but Milo is able to talk to him nd they go to his house to get his stuff, where the mother says he cannot go, but they go any way.  from this point they are on the run and have many adventures traveling.  The truck is stolen, and the travel back country with another car.  The Federales are after them as well, but say they were mistaken, Milo is not a drug runner.  They end up in a back country town with their car giving out again.  In the town Milo teaches Rafo about horse riding.  Milo had been a rodeo star.  

I rally like the character Milo, and the new life he finds with Marta (Natalia Traven) and her grandchildren.  Rafo decides to go with his father and Milo takes him to the border whee they meet him.  A good study of the effects of getting older and how to break down barriers.  Macho is the name of Rafo's rooster.  Rafo leaves the rooster with Milo.  Both Rafo and Milo find new lives and redemption.

Clint Eastwood Movie: *** Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

 We watched this for family movie night, and Sheri and I both agree we recall it being much better than what it was this time around.  Ma (Ruth Gordon) comes off as being obnoxious rather than funny.  In fact that is the problem with the movie, they are trying a bit too hard to be funny.  However Phillo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood), and the chimpanzee and the interaction with the Cholla (John Quade) and the Black Widows really are funny.  Lynn Halsey Taylor (Sondra Locke) also does very well.  In this movie the brother, Orville (Geoffrey Lewis) has a girlfriend, Echo (Beverly D'Angelo) and their relationship is cute.  

An enjoyable movie about street fighting as a profession.  The other fighter is Tank Murdock (Walter Barnes) and the fight scenes are well done.  

Clint Eastwood Movie: ***^ Any Which Way You Can (1980)

 Any Which Way You Can is the sequel to Every Which Way But Loose.  It has basically the same cast.  Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is set to retire, but agrees to one more fight due to the large pay out.  But then he decides to not do the fight, and the mob bosses who set up up kidnap his girlfriend.  In the end the two fighters go at it for their own gratification.  Chimpanzee has a very large part.  Lot of nonsense about getting him a mate.  Glen Campbell has cameo singing the title song.  Eastwood even resolves his issues with Cholla (John Quade) and the Black Widows.  

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  Clint Eastwood

  Philo Beddoe. the fighter
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  Sondra Locke

  Lynn Halsey-Taylor.  his girl
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  Geoffrey Lewis

  Orville. his brother
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  William Smith

  Jack Wilson.  the other fighter

Christmas Movie Review: *** A Holiday Romance (1999). AKA A Song for the Season

 A made for tv movie in which a school administrator, Cal Peterson (Gerald McRaney) comes to town to save the school from financial ruin, and he has closed music department when given this task in the past.  He brings his daughter, Fern (Alison Pill) and he meets the music teacher, Lily Waite (Naomi Judd) and they start to fall in love.  They move in with his father, Jake Peterson (Andy Griffith).  Of course the inevitable happens, music department scheduled for deletion.  But the secret is they go ahead with the concert, and Fern sings a solo.  With donations from towns people and associates of Lily the school music program is saved, for at least a couple years, and Cal and his daughter are staying.

Entertaining TV movie.