Movies with BM/WW Couples

IR couple Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor plot a jewelry heist in HBO Max's epidemic-themed Locked Down, streaming this month.

 

Lol!!
Looks funny! I will be checking out for this one.

 

So this movie was conceived, written, produced, cast, filmed, and edited in less than a year during a pandemic? That's kind of impressive.

 

Seems interesting...it will be interesting to see new techniques to deal with Lockdowns in filming and safety standards.

 

Fatale is still playing in theaters, and is available as a rental today.

 

Thanks! Good to know. I just located it and will be watching it. I'll give my review when finished.

 

WRONG TURN (2021)

 

I seen FATALE a few days ago and I'll give a mostly spoiler free review.

It is one of those movies that got stronger as the film went on. Pretty good material and a nice spin on those 90's erotic thriller movies like Fatal Attraction. Although the eroticism was lacking a bit in this unfortunately. But that is probably because there is a triple plot twist with this movie, so what it was being marketed as isn't exactly what it turned out to be. I guess they wanted to keep that hidden though which I understand. Derrick is your typical black independent sports agent(I feel like I seen this type of character before.). Michael Ealy adds his own personailty to the character as much as he can but he really needed his very good acting chops to make Derrick more interesting. Hilary Swank plays Val and teases her role within accordance to the triple plot twist. Pretty impressive. She unveals layers to her character who is a cop with her own personal issues with her ex husband and daughter; which was made public because of a mistake which turned out to be the catalyst of her disturbing spiral. His(Derrick) wife in this film and her ex husband are both obnoxious not so good people; both in their own way. Which served as one of the things that drew Derrick and Val to each other. Not so good for either in the end.

The Las Vegas scene between Derrick & Val was okay but it was in the beginning of the movie where things were still a little flat with the story. The relationship between Derrick & Val

Spoiler

is purely sexual and a one night stand mistake in Vegas. After he founds out that his OWN wife was cheating as well with his best friend he turned back to Val for another night of sex this time briefly and filled with anger. So they're "relationship" isn't exactly a match with the title of the thread. lol.

The strongest scene of the movie was the first interrogation scene. Because we see both of these very talented actors REALLY lay the things out for the rest of the film with their acting alone.






I give the film a B-.

 

REDEMPTION DAY Official Trailer (2021)

Gary Dourdan & Serinda Swan

 

In. I always thought Serinda Swan was cute.

 

Yeah I'll check this out too. It's good to see Gary Dourdan back.

 

Yeah, I thought his acting career became a victim of drug addiction, good to see him doing ok.

 

2 In The Bush: A Love Story - trailer


This was unconventional and a little wierd but they wrote and directed this into a cool indie romantic comedy. My gf and I watched this over the weekend out of curiousity when browsing prime because the movie poster looked interesting.

 

Throwback Thursday

Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas reunite to
celebrate 20-year anniversary of Save The Last Dance









All three of them(Julia, Sean and Kerry) have aged GRACEFULLY!

 

A classic movie indeed.

 

The Gods (2017)


Stefania Spampinato from Station 19

 

The movie LockedDown was a pretty good adult romantic dramedy with an heist element to it. lol.



It's also a romantic comedy where the love story is kind of in reverse

Spoiler: Paxton and Linda

The movie begins with Paxton and Linda being already exes. But because of the circumstances over in London where she lives with him they were on 'locked down' and had to live with each other. But with time spent together, both of their careers not going their way and them being fed up with this pandemic and Corporations, it led them to commiting a heist which then led them to finally getting back together, but there are signs and tensions through out the movie that their reconciliation was inevitable.

This was a good datenight at home movie. The comedy on paper isn't knockout hilarious but it is helped by the two outstanding actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anne Hathaway. You'll get a few chuckles which is what you normally get with a dramedy. The Edgar Allan Poe bit developed into a hilarious one.




It takes some material of 90's romantic dramedies and added it's own uniqueness. I was a fan of the storytelling of Paxton and Linda. It wasn't some grand romance with too much heaviness... probably because of the nature of the film but they were steady, informative of the viewer and stayed realistic with the circumstances that built their partnership.

 

the first act of this film is solid. All acts thereafter loss pace and narrative momentum. The story drifts into a dramatic clutter of ideas and character beats that seem superfluous to the setup.

It sustains interest—mine at least—because Anne and Chiwetel are very charming actors.

 

Simonal - 2020
Brazilian Movie

 

Trailer for "The Violent Heart" starring Jovan Adepo & Grace Van Patten dropped a couple weeks ago. The film premiered at Deauville Film Festival back in September, but it's finally getting it's theatrical & Home Digital release on February 19th: