Showing posts with label Emily Blunt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emily Blunt. Show all posts

Friday, July 3, 2026

In Theaters: ****^ Disclosure Day (2026)

 I listened to a radio program where the speaker said he was disappointed with this movie, but I really liked it.  They were especially talking about the ending, which seemed sort of short.  I can understand.  It seems there was a long communication which came out as one word, "Listen."  But that final day was very traumatic.  This movie reminded me of "Close Encounter of the Third Kind."

The movie pits people picked by the aliens, Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) and Dr. Daniel Kellner (Josh O'Connor) and Hugo (Colman Domingo).  They are trying to divulge information the gobernement has been hiding about aliens being real.  One the other side is the Wardex organization headed by Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth).  He has many resources and many men working with him.  He is also able to inhabit others, using allien technology.  He does this to Kellner's girl friend, Jane (Eve Hewson) and convinces her to kill Kellner.  She however resists his control by stabbing herself in the hand instead.  There is lots of intent actions and quirky things about alien history, Roswell and other crash sites, and crop circles.  In the end there is an alien who appears.  They make a nice use of animals, who sometimes are aliens appearing as animals so we aren't scared of them.

I would recommend this movie.  It is a Steven Spielberg sci fi movie.  



Wednesday, May 13, 2026

In Theaters: **** The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

After being let go by her newspaper, Andrea/Andy (Anne Hathaway) takes employment with her old boss in the fashion world.  She is in charge of the magazine part of the business.  However Miranda (Meryl Streep) doesn't really want her.  Andrea has to prove herself every day.  She finally does scoring an interview with Sasha (Lucy Liu), who is mega rich and doesn't give interviews.  Their is an old friend, Emily (Emily Blunt) who use to work with Andy but is now running a business.  She is a major advertiser so they must visit with her.  She has a new rich boyfriend.  Miranda's head assistant, Nigel (Stanley Tucci) would like a bigger job and more recognition.  Miranda is due for promotion, but the owner dies before it is announced.  The son takes over, and goes a different direction with downsizing, or selling.  Everything is about to change as Emily's boyfriend is planning to buy and then Emily will run things, kicking Miranda to the curb.  However in the end there is another buyer, Sasha, who will not be that active so Miranda keeps her job, and Andy moves up and all are happy.

Interesting look at the fashion world, which is not my scene.  Lady Gaga sings at the fashion show.  Miranda skips out and Nigel gets his chance.



Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Movie Review: ***^Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

This is the alien war that the aliens are winning.  Tom Cruise stars as Cage, a captain who has been Shanghaied to the front lines.  He kills a particular alien that givs him the power to relive that day over and over.  Sergeant Rita (Emily Blunt) had the same ability but lost it when she did not die one day.  They team together to figure how to kill the Omega, the life force that is at the center of the aliens, as they all use the same nervous system.  Being one body with many parts.  So we live one day after another with Rita making sure Cage is dead at the end of the day; and slowly they get closer and closer.  When they day finally comes to attack the Omega, Cage recruits his old unit to help. 

Great fun, especially the ending which I had to watch twice to make sur i understood it.

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

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

***^ The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) with Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep

**** Disclosure Day (2026). Sreve Spielberg sci fi

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Movie Review: ****Quiet Place II (2020)

 Emily Blunt again stars as the mother of a post apocalyptic family.  But her daughter, Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and a friend, Emmett (Cillian Murphy) are the two trying to find rescue on an island.  The alien creatures with big ears cannot swim.  Consequently the island has become a refuge.  Someone is playing a song over and over so as to be a beacon for those who will hear and discover the key.  The creatures are intent on eating everyone however.  Regan wants to get to the island so as to broadcast the feedback in her hearing aid; which has been disagreeable to the creatures and makes them vulnerable to being killed.  It overwhelms their supersensitive hearing.  This presents two stories which are parallel.  Regan and Emmett on the island and mother and Marcus (son/brother) (Noah Jupe) who is injured and consequently he and mother are fighting their own battle against a creature.  They also have a newborn baby.

This movie takes place after the original, and it shows the effect living in this environment has had on people.  They are not helpful to each other, and because of fear or greed some are not good to others.  

The movie starts at Day One of the invasion.  This allows the father (John Krasinski) to be part.  However this is a bit confusing because it shows the first day scene, and then skips to present day during the opening credits.

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A Quiet Place

Monday, March 10, 2025

Movie Review: ***Fall Guy (2024)

 This is a movie about stuntmen with a romance and a murder story mixed in.  Emily Blunt portrays Jody Moreno, the director of the film and former love interest of our stuntman, Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) who took a bad fall and has been away from the stunt work for a few years.  Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is the man he usually stunts for.  Gail Meyer (Hannah Waddingham) is the producer.  The cover up in this case is almost as bad as the original murder.  Our actor, Seavers killed someone showing off.  Meyer is determined to co ver it up, and actually brings in the stuntman to be the fall guy.  This movie high lights stuntmen and consequently there are lots of explosions and plenty of crashes.  This type of movie is very noisy and it over stimulates me.  Emily Blunt in a movie is always enjoyable.

Friday, August 13, 2021

Movie Review: ****Jungle Cruise

This is a very entertaining movie based on the jungle cruise ride at Disneyland. It stars Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson. Lily Houghton (Blunt) is determined to find a magical petal which will cure all illness. Frank (Johnson) is the captain of the boat she hires to take her up the Amazon to find the petal. Lily is accompanied by her brother (Jack Whitehall) and pursued by Prince Joaquim (Jesse Plemons) who wants the petal for the benefit of the Nazis. It makes for some fantastic adventures and peril. The scenery is very well done. And their is an ancient legend with natives guarding the way. I enjoyed myself and especially like the way Blunt and Johnson interact. The humor and puns were very good.

Saturday, March 23, 2019

In Theaters ****^ Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

In Theaters ****^ Mary Poppins Returns 
Emily Blunt wows as Mary Poppins and Lin-Manuel Miranda thrills as Jack, the Lamp Lighter and former apprentice of Bert from the original film.  And the Banks family is made up of Michael, (Ben Whishaw) and his sister Jane (Emily Mortimer) who are in the original but now 25 years older.  Michael is a widower.  He has three children, Anabel (Pixie Davies), John (Nathanael Saleh) and Georgie (Joel Dawson).  Meryl Streep also portrays a cameo, cousin of Mary Poppins, Topsy, who is a fix-it person.  Michael has borrowed money against the bank, and the bank president (Colin Firth) is intent on taking the home, even if he has to hide stock records to do so.  ALs taking cameo rolls are Dick Van Dyck (bank president’s boss) and Angela Lansbury, balloon seller.   With this cast and Mary Poppins story we are in for a ride.  It seems P.L. Travers published eight Mary Poppins books in all with many stories.  Sheri really loved the music, but it still isn’t in my head like some of the original songs.  I need to return to see this again.

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Movie Review: ****A Quiet Place (2018)

Quiet and scary.  A Quiet Place (2018)  Emily Blunt and John Krasinski (a married couple) star in the science fiction thriller as they try to protect their family—three children, Regan (Millicent Simmons), Marcus (Noah Jupe) and Beau (Cade Woodward).  This is a post-apocalyptic world in which alien creatures inhabit the world feeding on people and other animals.  They hunt by sound. Early in the movie they take Beau when he makes too much noise with a toy.  Regan, who is deaf, thinks her father blames her for Baeu's death.
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Saturday, January 24, 2015

Movie Review: ****^Into the Woods 2014

This is a movie I would very much enjoy owning to watch again from time to time.  It of course is the Stephen Sondheim musical.  (Also James Lapine who did the screenplay.) The set is dark, as the woods are dark.  Meryl Streep portrays the witch.  She is hard to recognize before she regains her youth.  This is really a good cast.  Johnny Depp has a cameo as the wolf.  The Baker is played by James Corden, his wife by Emily Blunt.  Cinderella is played by Anna Kendrick.  Jack and Red Riding Hood are Daniel Huttlestone and Lilla Crawford.  I enjoyed the music, and the acting and the story more than I thought I would.  Kids did the first act in middle school, and the second act is where things get more depressing and the Giant's wife starts killing people.  However this was even entertaining and well presented. 
I have a favorite song, 'Children Will Listen."  My only regret is the Baker was providing dialogue over the song, and the song was soft and hard to hear.  SO here are the lyrics in their entirety:

Careful the things you say,
Children will listen.
Careful the things you do,
Children will see.
And learn.

Guide them along the way,
Children will glisten.
Children will look to you
For which way to turn,
To learn what to be.

Careful before you say,
"Listen to me."
Children will listen.

Careful the wish you make,
Wishes are children.
Careful the path they take-
Wishes come true,
Not free.

Careful the spell you cast,
Not just on children.
Sometimes the spell may last
Past what you can see
And turn against you...

Careful the tale you tell.
That is the spell.
Children will listen...

Chris Pine portrays one prince, who turns out to be charming but not sincere, and Cinderella leaves him.   The other prince (Billy Magnussen) ends up with Rapunzel (Mackenzie Mauzy.)  He turns out to be both charming and sincere.
I must admit I stayed for all the credits as wanted to listen to the orchestration.  I noted not all of the actors sang their songs; but most did.
Very well done Disney.