Movie Review: ***Spellbound(2024)

 This is an animated feature with Rachel Zegler portraying the Princess Ellian whose parents, the King Solon (Javier Bardem) and Queen Ellsmere (Nicole Kidman) who have been turned into monsters.  The princess and the consorts, Bolinar (John Lithgow) and  Nazara (Jenifer Lewis) are the only ones who know.  However on the princess' birthday the entire kingdom finds out.  They want to make the princess queen and exile the monsters.  The princess wants her parents restored and takes off with them following a light, to accomplish this.  The army is in pursuit.  

This movie has a twist at the end, and ends up being more about compromising, rather than getting everything back to the way it was.

This movie is available on Netflix

Movie Review: ****Shrek (2001)

 Shrek(Mike Myers) and Donkey(Eddie Murphy) made a good team as they travel to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from the dragon for Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow).  However things are not exactly as they seem.  And Shrek and Princess Fiona have more in common than you would guess.  

The relationship between Donkey and Shrek make this movie work, even animated.  There are cameos by any number of fairy tale characters--the blind mice, three pigs, gingerbread man, Pinocchio, the wicked witch, the big bad wolf, Puss and Boots, and so many others.  

In Theaters: (2019) **The Tomorrow Man

The Tomorrow Man (2019) This movie stars  Ed (John Lithgow) and Ronnie (Blythe Danner) are a couple of seniors.  Ed is worried about the future, and as such has an extensive food storage.  He is attracted to Ronnie as he sees her making purchases which also seem to indicate she too is worried about the future.  Consequently they hit is off and become a couple.  However when Ed realizes Ronnie is a hoarder rather than someone preparing for disaster, the relationship struggles.  But same how they plow on.  This movie is slow and not really anything ever happens.  It is about growing, and this comes out of Ed’s heart attack.  After this he realizes that family is more important.  He is able to reconcile with his son, and even holds a yard sale to get rid of some of his stuff.  This movie is slow and boring.  Not worth the time in the end.

Movie Review: **^Interstellar (2014)

I found Interstellar to be confusing and in the end a bunch of mumble jumble.  It is about an astronaut, who leaves his family, but somehow by twisting universes, he is able to visit them as a ghost.  He finally returns to his family, his daughter's death bed, while he has not aged much because everything is relative.  It uses ideas about gravity and time and jumbles this all together.
Move stars Matthew McConaughey as the astronaut, John Lithgow as his father, Mackenzie Foy as his youth daughter, and Ellen Burstyn as his adult daughter.  Anne hathaway stars as a fellow astronaut.