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Bear in the Big Blue House (1997)
A delightful childhood treasure!
My kids were the wrong age for this, but my 21st century grandsons were not! I have heard it is coming back, which is wonderful as I have a great grandson now.
Rather than saccharine stories that try to pound messages and fables into the young, Bear in the Big Blue House provides charm, humor and hidden lessons. Noel MacNeal is fantastic as Bear, providing warmth, and companionship, with a side course of gentle education! Can't wait to share it with my GGS!!
If you can, take time to watch the original episodes, and see the talent in them. Noel will be reprising his original character... So be
on the lookout for one of the best puppeteers around today.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Classic Jack
Lots of action, clever humor, trickles of romance and great lashings of plot twists. Enjoy!
Knives Out (2019)
Remarkable. A joy to watch.
A great movie, with a dynamic multi-faceted cast. Daniel Craig was perfectly cast. A good choice for date night or lazy weekend. I intend to watch it again!
Tommy (2020)
Benefit of the doubt...for now
Episode 2 - traffic stop gone bad, because driver doesn't speak English. Isn't English a requirement to get a CDL? I'm confused about what was going on there. In a town where hatred for cops runs rampant why wouldn't a new cop show address that? I'll keep watching for a while, but I'm leary that this will be a cop show with the same B.S.
Hawaii Five-0: Ahuwale Ka Nane Huna (2018)
If this was on the bottom floor (room 13 at the motel - a two-story bldg)...
...How could there have been an air- conditioning vent in the attic that showed the first floor?
Pathfinder (2007)
Yuck!
I do not know much about the history of these times - but this was gratuitously violent, with no rhyme or reason for it except for the sake of gore, gore and more gore. Yuck. I stopped watching it after 1/2 an hour, although hubby stuck it out until the end (he wasn't impressed either!) I thought the movie was going to be a historical look at a time 600 years prior to Columbus, and to show some interesting perspectives from both the Viking and Native viewpoints, instead of a mindless, dark (cinematically as well as thematically) piece with no redeeming features. A total waste of celluloid. I have taken mental note of the producers and director, and will avoid future movies with their names on them!
Bobby (2006)
Bobby - a wonderful and devastatingly sad look at 1968
I really enjoyed this movie - and even though it brought back sad memories ( I was 16 in 1968 and worked as a stamp licker in one of Bobby's campaign offices in Northern CA.) I valued the movie, and found the weaving of the personal vignettes about those who were there, from the workers to the guests at the hotel to be dynamic and important in creating the background for how devastatingly the loss of Bobby was... and continues to be. Of the many "what ifs" in American political history, the loss of Bobby Kennedy is one of the most painful. I highly recommend this movie - whether you were around then or not, it is an important film with valuable insights.