Saturday Afternoon

Dec. 18, 2021

White Christmas

on NetFlix

1954 [TV-PG] 2 hours

CAST: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
GENRES: Romantic Comedies, Musicals, Family Movies
THIS MOVIE IS: Charming, Feel-Good, Romantic

Two war buddies fall for two sisters and follow the girls to a resort owned by their former commanding officer, who is in danger of losing the place.

“Paramount’s first film in (lavender-hued) VistaVision was this pornographically soppy but, nonetheless, hearty and humorous 1954 festive romp in which Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye take their astonishingly popular two-man lounge-comedy-dance revue to rural Vermont. It’s a standard putting-on-a-show movie with swinging tunes (courtesy of Irving Berlin), harmless misogyny, and a nice line in bitching at Rogers and Hammerstein’s expense. It’s as sickly-sweet as an eggnog tsunami, but Bing’s brandy-butter baritone and Kaye’s incessant, proto-Jim Carrey clowning always manage to raise a smile.”
From a review in 2008, by David Jenkins  https://www.timeout.com/movies/white-christmas

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Moving forward we are open to any and all suggestions for future films, as we hope this will become a regular part of the life we share together. The group is coordinated by Ellen Cormier, send her an email with your recommendations or suggestions.  ellenjcis@gmail.com

Saturday Afternoon

Dec. 11, 2021

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

on NetFlix

2017 [PG-13] 2h 6m

CAST: Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Astri Bergès-Frisbey
GENRES: Action/Adventure
THIS MOVIE IS: Entertaining

After pulling an enchanted sword from a stone, a streetwise misfit must accept his destiny as future king and stand up to a villainous uncle. This Arthur wears what looks like a brown leather bomber jacket, sports a 2016 movie star haircut, calls everybody “mate,” and makes a big show of not wanting to get involved in politics, much less embrace his destiny. That is, until circumstances require him to round up a crew of hyper-competent misfit outsiders and depose the kind heist-movie style, treating every skirmish and siege as if it were another vault that the “Snatch” guys were hoping to empty.

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Moving forward we are open to any and all suggestions for future films, as we hope this will become a regular part of the life we share together. The group is coordinated by Ellen Cormier, send her an email with your recommendations or suggestions.  ellenjcis@gmail.com

Saturday Afternoon

Nov 27, 2021

A River Runs Through It

on NetFlix

1992 [PG] 2h 3m

CAST: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt
GENRES: Movies based on Real Life, Movies Based on Books, Classic Movies
THIS MOVIE: is Emotional

Two brothers take different paths as they try to live up to their father’s high moral – and fly fishing – standards in rural Montana in the early 1900s. “Fly-fishing stands for life in this movie. If you can learn to do it correctly, to read the river and the fish and yourself, and to do what needs to be done without one wasted motion, you will have attained some of the grace and economy needed to live a good life. If you can do it and understand that the river, the fish, and the whole world are God’s gifts to use wisely, you will have gone the rest of the way.” Roger Ebert, 1992

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Saturday Afternoon

Nov 20, 2021

Passing

on NetFlix

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Saturday Afternoon

Nov 13, 2021

Pan’s Labyrinth

on NetFlix

2006 [R] 1 hr 59 min

CAST: Ivana Baqueno, Ariadna Gil, Sergi Lopez
GENRES: Spanish films, Dramas
THIS MOVIE IS: Dark

In 1944 Spain, young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) and her ailing mother (Ariadna Gil) arrive at the post of her mother’s new husband (Sergi López), a sadistic army officer who is trying to quell a guerrilla uprising. While exploring an ancient maze, Ofelia encounters the faun Pan, who tells her that she is a legendary lost princess and must complete three dangerous tasks in order to claim immortality.

Bewitchingly bonkers. · It’s so audacious and so technically accomplished.

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