Remarkably Bright Creatures A Novel by Shelby Van Pelt, Harper Large Print, an Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2022.
I had seen the movie on Netflex, but the book is even better. It was very enjoyable with people strugging with the question who am I and where do I fit in. I must admit even knowing what was going to happen, when it did happen I still cried. Told from the perspective of an octopus is is very good. A very good read I highly recommend.
I have loved the Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) movies, and the third movie does not disappoint. However in this movie we have a couple kidnappings, Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Lord Tewkesbury's (Louis Partridge) mother (Hattie Morahan). Enola's mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) provides support, as does Dr. Watson (Himesh Patel). Moriarty (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) is back and more evil than ever as they look for the gold stolen by Lord Tewkesbury's father many years ago. This is over the top of the Tewkesbury/Holmes wedding. This is a fun movie with lots of intrigue.
This is an emotional life drama narrated by an octopus (Alfred Molina). In the end two characters come together in an unexpected way. Tova (Sally Field) lost her son when he was in high school due to a boat accident. Cameron (Lewis Pullman) comes to town looking for his father. He stays with a friend, Ethan Mack (Colm Meaney) of Tova's, living in his van. He is hired at the local aquarium, where the octopus resides. He is going to replace Tova as the janitor, who is thinking of crossing the bay and living in a senior home. Cameron find the man he thought was his father, but he is not. He has a girlfriend, Avery (Sofia Black D'alia). But he blows it when he meets her son who is high school age.
The octopus has to go to drastic measures to fix things, before he returns to the ocean to die.
This movie is a current offer on aNetflix. It is very likable. The ending is very good.
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
This is a made for Netflix movie. The Electric State is about a war between humans and robots. Robots initially helped an, but eventually they wanted their own lives, which resulted in a war for freedom. However the humans won the war and established a world without robots; but with helmeted devices where people control drones of themselves. It has become illegal to have a robot. However, one shows up at the home of Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) a student. Cosmo (voice Alan Tudyk) explains that he is a drone controlled by Millie's brother, Christopher (Woody Norman) and he needs Michelle to save him. Michelle has for years thought her brother dead in a car accident.
So begins a trek to find her brother. He is in the offices to Neurocaster with CEO Ethan Skate (Stanley Tucci). Neurocaster developed the technology to win the war by being able to make drones dependent on people, sort of like VDR headsets. By developing this technology, people were saved during the war with computers so the computers sued for peace. They were banished to the world outside the populated areas. The Neurocaster technology is not working as well with Cosmo gone. It is very difficult to get to the Neurocaster site. Stake hires Colonel Bradbury AKA the Marshall to bring the drone traveling with Michelle back to the company. He is a bounty hunter policing for computers who do not stay in their own area.
Michelle and Cosmo are joined on their trek by a couple of black market runners, Keats (Chris Pratt) and his robot, Herman (voice Anthony Mackie). Herman is a robot that can change sizes. Of course he is illegal being in the human areas. The make it to a community of robots in the outlying district. There they meet the scientist, Dr. Amherst (Ke Huy Quon). He has left the Neurocaster company but was significant in telling Michelle his brother had died. He also built Cosmo for Christopher. He explains that the found Christopher in a vegetative state. However Christopher was a genius so they were able to use him to develop the technology to build the Neurocaster system where people could control a drone through their headset.
Lots of adventure. Bradbury and those who work with him finally attack the computer city ruining everything. However the computers put themselves back together and decide to go after the Neurocaster base. At the same time Michelle wants to talk to her brother. There is a difficult decision coming as all the Neurocaster technology runs through Christopher.
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
This is an enjoyable new musical from Netflix. It is a remake of the Roald Dahl book, which has made into a movie, then a musical, and now adapted for the big screen. The high light of the film is Miss Trunchbull (Kate Thompson) playing a large, mean odious woman who abuses and bullies children. She uses prosthetics to make herself look larger. She leads the school song "The Hammer" which is very fun as she stays within the lines.
Mathilda (Alisha Weir) is the motivation for a school rebellion. This only happens after Matilda learns she has psychokinetic abilities. This allows her to fight back against Trunchbull.
Another sweet part of the movie is the students and their dancing and singing. The approach it with such energy it really carries the movie.
Of course this movie is high lighted by the sweetness of Miss Honey (Lashana Lynch). She actually portrays a double role, also being part of the story Matilda is telling the the librarian (Sindhu Vee).
I really love the song "Quiet" and find myself listening to different versions of the story. However, this movie version with Matilda in a hot air balloon really captures the feel of quiet. This is the song where Matilda finds her kinetic abilities.
I hope everyone can find this movie version on their TVs through Netflix.Music by Tim Minchin.
A made for Netflix movie. This is a new animated retelling of the beloved story "A Christmas Carol." In this movie not only did Marley die at Christmas, but also Scrooge's sister, at the birth of his nephew. He has for ever since hated Christmas, and his nephew. However he had developed his miserly ways before this.
The story hits on the theme that we cannot change the past, but we can improve the future by focusing on what we can do today. Netflix did a good job with the animation. However there are parts--especially Christmas yet-to-be that would be a bit too much for children. Scrooge is voiced by Luke Evans,
Enola Holmes is a Netflix movie from 2020. I had watched it before but am watching it again in preparation to watch Enola Holmes 2. Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) is the younger sister of Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft Holmes (Sam Claflin). Enola has been raised in an eccentric manner by her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) after her father dies and her older brothers head to London. When her mother disappears it creates a situation where Enola needs a ward--she is only sixteen. Mycroft takes the turn and insists she be sent to finishing school. Instead Enola sneaks away and heads to London to find her mother. However she instead gets involved in a case of a disappearance of Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge.). Turns out Lord Tewkesbury is under threat of being murdered after his father was previously murdered. Sherlock suggests she dangle her feet in the water so as to draw out the sharks. This she does to almost getting herself and Lord Tewkesbury murdered. All over being able to influence the vote in the House of Lords.
This movie is loads of fun. The thing that makes it go is the character Enola Holmes as portrayed by Brown. The movie is based on the book series by Nancy Springer.
