Movie Review: ***^ Music from Another Room (1998)

 As a boy, Danny (Jude Law) helps hs father deliver a baby.  At that time he declares he is going to marry the baby some day.  Jump forward 25 years and Danny is a down on his luck man who begins working making deliveries, and he runs into the same family.  The baby, Anna (Gretchen Mol) is now engaged.  Danny expresses his love, but it falls flat.  Anna has a sister, Nina (Jennifer Tilly) who is blind and over protected.  Danny begins to help her expand her life.  They go to a dance and she meets Jesus (Vincent Laresca) who gets her to dance.  From thee they form a relationship, and eventually marry.  As she grows, the family becomes more open and free, and Danny finds his place with them.  

Star Wars Disney + TV Review: ****The Skeleton Crew (2024-2025)

 This is an exciting Star Wars show.  There are eight episodes.  The premise is a group of four children enter a space ship, not realizing it is a space ship, and end up launching themselves into space.  Turns out the ship they are on is connected with pirates, and manned by a robot, SM33.  SM33 is programed with the pirate code, but a great part of his memory is missing.  At any rate when the kids ask him to take them home, he takes them to a pirate port.  This is where they meet Jod Na Nawood, who has Jedi traits; including a light saber and ability to use telekinesis.  

The kids are from the planet At Attin, a mythical planet where there gold credits are manufactured.  However it is also a hidden world.  The kids hold the key to finding the planet, and are much wanted.  When Nawood befriends them, does he want to help them, or exploit them.  

In the meantime the parents of the children are determined to find their children as the local government is not helping.  Government is totally droid, and the administrator is a large computer.

I would recommend this ride for anyone into Star Wars.

Jude Law as Jod Na Nawood, a mysterious pirate/Jedi?

Ravi Cabot-Conyers as Wim. Youth from At Attin and discovers what he thinks might be a Jedi temple

Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Fern. A youth whose mother is an administrator,  She races scooters and is up for a good adventure

Kyriana Kratter as KB. Fern's friend who has a cyborg implant due to an accident

Robert Timothy Smith as Neel. A Myykian boy (elephant like being) who is Wim's best friend.  

Nick Frost as SM33. A pirate robot who is voiced by Frost.  He is discovered on the ship which use to belong to a pirate captain that had discovered to location of At Attin.  

Movie Review: ****^Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

 We return to the universe of Harry Potter but again before Harry Potter is born.  This movie takes place in the period leading up to WWII.  Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) is on the rise.  He is absolved of wrong doing and is running for leader of the international magical world.  It is up to Dumbledore (Jude Law) and his cohorts to stop him.  This group includes Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), his brother Theseus Scamander (Callum Turner), Lally Hicks (Jessica Williams), Bunty Broadacre (Victoria Yeates), Yusuf Kama (William Nadylam) and the muggle, Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler).  Each has his own reason for being involved.  Kama to avenge his sister's death, Bunty is Scamander's assistant, Kowalski hopes to rescue his girl, Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol) and Dumbledore to remove the pact he made with Grindelwald when he was a youth.  Hicks is a new character in this movie and is recruiting by Dumbledore to combat the rising evil.  

Also in the mix is the history of Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller) who is an Obscurus a powerful magical being who formed only under certain emotional conditions.  Turns out Credence is the son of Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth (Richard Coyle).  The plot revolves around the Qilin, a magical creature who can see the soul and suggest who is most worthy to lead.  Grindelwald captured one with the help of Credence, and has killed it and brought it back to life in a manipulated state.  However the Qilin has a twin, that Scamander protects.  How can the surviving twin arrive at the ceremony; and Gindelwald be exposed.  Credence calls him out, and Grindelwald attempts to kill him, while Dumbledore and Aberforth defend.  The crossing curses free Dumbledore from his previous pact.  Grindelwald escapes, but the world gets a better leader.  They all meet again at the Kowalski's bakery shop in New York for the wedding of Queenie and Kowalski, with Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) in attendance who Scamander has missed.

Movie Review: ****Sherlock Holmes (2009)

This Sherlock Holmes movie was made in 2009.  The most interesting thing about this movie are the characters, and the enmeshment between the character, Dr. Watson (Jude Law) who would like to see less of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and get married to Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly).  However Holmes uses guilt, or dependency, or something to always keep him around.  This results in his almost being killed by a blast.  In this movie the nemesis is Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong).  Moriarty is still in the background, but a woman that intrigues Holmes, Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) is working for him.  Blackwood sets himself up as coming back from the dead, after Watson proclaims him dead.  He continues to perpetrate murders to control others and gain power.  His boldest move is an attack on Parliament with gas warfare.  Will Holmes figure things out and get there in time.  This movie has good action but as I said, more interesting characters.

Movie Review: ****^Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows  2011 stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams.

This movie appealed to me.  It had an historical aspect, traveling around Europe, intellectual battle between Moriarty and Holmes, and the side characters of Dr. Watson, and Dr. Watson's new wife.   Downing plays Sherlock in such a cavalier way at times, leading Dr. Watson into danger.  It is really fun.  The plot revolves arms.  The show starts with a tragedy, the murder of Holme's girlfriend at the hands of Moriarty.  However it ends with a sudden twist.  I think it will be enjoyable to most adults.  It is intense, and youngsters might not follow all the plot twists.