Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie
Goodbye Christopher Robin stars Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie and Kelly MacDonald.
It’s the new Simon Curtis-directed movie that tells us the behind-the-scenes story of the life of celebrated author A.A. Milne; particularly how his son C.R. Milne inspired the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories.
I’ll be tuning in because I’m a fan of Pooh and friends. I also just want to watch a film about a father’s great love for his son.
This trailer has a dream-like feel. I also get the sense that Robbie’s character is a ghost; no idea if that was intentional, since I know extremely little about A.A. Milne’s life, at this point.
Stephen Frears, director of The Queen (2006), which starred Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen has a new movie based on another British monarch. One who’s played by Judi Dench.
Also starring Olivia Williams, Ali Fazal, Eddie Izzard, Michael Gambon and Tim Pigott-Smith, the story of Victoria & Abdul focuses on Queen Victoria’s unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Dame Judi Dench and the promising humour are all the reason I need to watch.
There is also my interest in seeing an ageing female monarch take charge of herself and others with aplomb.
From writer/director Peter Landesman, The Silent Man (New Title – Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House) stars Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Kate Walsh and Michael C. Hall.
It’s the true story of Mark Felt, a man who, under the name ‘Deep Throat,’ helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
Before this trailer, I knew nothing about The Silent Man and the people/incidents it’s based on.
After Neeson’s engaging monologue, I sure hope that the film’s dialogue will be great. Neeson’s words actually took me back to how much I loved the dinner table scene in the first teaser trailer for Black Mass (2015). The memories!
Ike Barinholtz, Marton Csokas, Maika Monroe, Tony Goldwyn and Josh Lucas also star.
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest movie is all about the 1967 police raid in Detroit, USA. A raid that led to one of the largest citizen uprisings in the history of the United States.
John Boyega, Will Poulter, John Krasinski, Anthony Mackie and Jack Reynor star.
This is definitely on my list of the best trailers of 2017. Boyega and Poulter’s accents sound great, according to my non-American ears. I look forward to the seriously tense scenes that are surely coming our way.
Tyler James Williams, Kaitlyn Dever and Hannah Murray also star.
Hidden Figures (2016): Taraji P. Henson, Mahershala Ali
Hidden Figures, the movie about the three African American women whose mathematical contributions led to NASA’s first successful space missions,is a film that did two important things for me. First, it gave me and many others a long overdue history lesson. Second, it reminded me that even though there’s still a considerable way to go, humanity really has come quite a distance in terms of equality and civil rights.
Seeing the challenges faced by the film’s main characters, the ways they dealt with the obstacles they encountered is really a great and empowering thing for anyone to witness. I particularly adore the sisterhood, strength, determination and good humour between the women. I of course mean Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. I see these ladies as the kind of women with personal attributes that many would probably want for the women and young girls in their life. And I’m certainly not talking about the mathematical genius, not that that wouldn’t be welcome.
Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae, there really is no faulting any of the performances in Hidden Figures. Director Theodore Melfi’s movie is a good example of what a well-put-together film can look like.
I say watch it because it’s thoroughly deserving of all its success. It’s also a beautiful celebration of truly great women, and the people good and brave enough to do what was necessary to help them shine.
Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell and Mahershala Ali also star.
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