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.

Movie Review: ****The Terminal (2004)

 When you are stranded in an airport and your visa is no longer valid because your country is no more due to a coup.  Viktor Navorski finds himself in this predicament.  He may not enter the U.S. and he may not return home.  Because of the coup his passport is no longer valid.  So he lives at the airport.  At first he returns carts to collect a few coins with which to feed himself.  He befriends Enrique Cruz (Diego Luna) who is a food service worker and provides meals in exchange for help meeting an immigration officer, Dolores Torres (Zoe Zaldaña).  The conflict in this story is created by Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci) who is the head of the U.S. Customs and seems to take pride in causing grief for Navorski.  Navorski also meets and woos a flight attendant, Amelia Warren (Katherine Zeta-Jones).  He also befriends Gupta Rajan (Kumar Pallana) who is a janitor, but in actuality is an illegal immigrant.  A theme is why does Navorski want to visit America.  Dixon wants to find out, and even interrogates Warren to find out.  Finally Navorski reveals he wants to get the signature of a jazz musician.  

A funny part of the show is that Navorski actually gets a job in the airport working construction.  He build a fountain and does many different tasks.  

Political issues finally resolve, and Dixon tells him he can go home; but not enter the United States.  Dixon sys he will persecute his friends if he does not go strait home.  Rajan gives himself up to convince him to finish his dream.  He does this, and then returns to catch a flight home.  

This story follow rather loosely the story of Mehran Nasseri who lived in the Paris airport for 18 years.  This is a good show telling the human spirit and the will to survive in difficult circumstances.

Movie Review: ***^ Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

 Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is a farm boy, who saves a monk by trading his horse for magic beans.  However his uncle throws the beans out, disappointed in him.  One of them grows, and the others Jack recovers.  The princess, Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) who is not looking forward to her arranged marriage, and is seeking adventures, happens upon Jack when she sees his light.  She ends up going to the giant kingdom in Jack's house as it grows on the top of the bean stalk.  Jack fell down and is discovered at the bottom of the bean stalk by the king (Ian McShane) the next day.  

Jack becomes part of the group sent to rescue the princess.  The group includes Roderick (Stanley Tucci) who is the princess' intended.  It also includes Elmont (Ewan McGregor) a loyal captain of the guard.  When they encounter the giants, things do not go well for those seeking the princess.  Roderick does several treacherous things which eliminate some of the guards.  However when the giants are upon him, he removes a crown from his bag, placing it on his head, and claims to be the king of the giants.  He proposes leading them to earth to conquer first the kingdom of the princess, but then all the kingdoms.  Feast tonight (on the captured men) and war tomorrow.  

Roderick discovers Jack is the person with the beans and takes them from him; but doesn't get one.  Roderick's treachery becomes known to the company of men, as well as his desires to help the giants conquer the kingdom.  Jack is the only one nt captured, and helps them escape after killing the cook who was preparing Elmont for dinner.  They also are able to kill another giant, using bees and a sudden drop off.   Elmont is going back to get the crown from Roderick, and Jack and the princess escape down the bean stalk.  When the king sees proof of giants--the giant who fell--he order the bean stalk chopped down, even with his daughter on the other side.  Ghe ride the bean stalk to the ground and are able to land not dead.  This thwarted the giants as they have no way down.  However the betrayed roderick, seeking to get the crown from him.  Elmont and Roderick fight, resulting in Roderick's death, but the giants snatch the body before Elmont can get the crown.  One of the giants is king, but they cannot get down as the stalk is chopped.

However the discover Rodericks beans, and quickly use them to create a bridge to earth.  

There is enough action and enough romance in this movie to make it enjoyable.  It is rated PG13.  It is currently available on Netflix.  

Movie Review: ***^The Electric State (2025)

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.