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Sadly, some days I think "still, ,,,".

Finally got to reading 'The Alice Network' and I overall enjoyed it and didn't realize how much of it was based on fact until I'd finished. I think I liked both timelines being portrayed equally until the end , which felt like after so much struggle it rushed to a happy ending. Loved the characters and I'm glad to hear that the author and I both imagined Emma Thompson as Eve.

I think this looks good but do I have to go to theatres? That seems awfully optimistic.

He absolutely deserved it.

I'm looking forward to this film coming out.

I heard about The Hunger Games prequel coming out and I just thought " Money grab". But I see a lot of people online are excited about it.

I know that his latest accomplishment probably counts as tv but I thoughtJharrel Jerome was amazing in Moonlight and it appears that even more people are taking note of him in When They See Us. I really want to see a long career for him.

I was genuinely shocked to realize she was the author Linda Fairstein who writes the Alexandra Cooper books. I never thought I'd endorse a book burning but her books can follow her to hell.

I,,, don't think I can look at Octavia Spencer the same way again.

I just watched 'The Switch ' with Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston and I'm having a hard time believing that this worked only 9 years ago. Seriously, there was not enough litigation going on in the end.

Only if Friend of Dorothy is a slur.

It's not just Americans that do this. Remember the response when Rene Zellweger was first cast as Bridget Jones?

I've heard for a long time now that the Globes mean absolutely nothing. Really. And reading what you quoted down below, you'd almost believe that the author was trying to slyly say that.

Marvelous, just what we need in these times; messages about fearing the 'other'.

Joy 2018 Joy 2015 It's a pretty big difference. And yet in the article feed at IMDB the 2015 pics are coming up for the 2018 one.

That's unfortunate becauseit can be done. My Girl was a huge hit, one that my dad almost didn't take me too see when I was 12 for pretty much the reasons you give. I think he was glad he relented despite the amount of crying on my part he had to witness.

If that's the case could they not have just made MockingJay one frigging movie? A 200 page book in the juvenile section of my library did not warrant 2 movies that didn't develope any characters but the leads. So no, I will give Lionsgate any of my money in the future for more Hunger Games movies.

Yeah, the thing about the book is it makes its point rather quickly, but the film is still, , film length.

I just watched The Death of Stalin. Now I know that the bar would be set lower for a comedy for truth but it was kind of shocking to look these people and events up later and discover something mentioned in a joke turned out to be true, like the plane crash that killed most of The Soviets hockey team because Stalin's son Vasili was constantly drunk and making poor decisions.

Kindred was also turned into a graphic novel some years back. I checked it out at my local library.

On Wed I watched the film Indian Horse at my local indie film series. It is based on the book by Richard Wagamese by the same name and it is a brutal depiction of the residential school system that Canada had in place to aggressively assimilate Indigenous children. While it was not near as expert a film as Moonlight (okay that might be a bit of an understatement ) I couldn't help comparing the two in terms of themes(where they are the same, where they differ), the character's journey and structure of the film. It is also told with 3 different actors playing the main character at different ages and they were all three the best parts of the film. The one playing the teenaged version of the Saul was Forrest Goodluck, who is also in The Miseducation of Cameron Post. While I can't wait to see him in that as well I also want to see him in a role where he is not institutionalized. Ajuawak Kapashesit and and Slade Peltier as the adult and child versions of Saul were also amazing. Eta: While the film has many producers and executive producers they were really trying to advertisethat Clint Eastwood was an Executive Producer.

And it didn'tneed an awards push to bring it there.

I'm participating in a reading challenge at my library so I'm trying to read things on suggested topics and themes. For a classic I'd never read I picked The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I'm already categorizing it as a favourite of mine and I don't know why I had avoided it for so long. I can see it's influence as well in how media portrays women in the past, hell, Matthew Weiner must have had it by his bedside when he was writing Mad Men. I love how it's written with sparing detail but I feel like I can see everything. I thought that Esther made poignant points about this seeming dead end awaiting her after college without being overwrought. I'm also sad to report that some of the experiences she reported about her treatment for her depression are not that different now. I know people who have seen the same arrogant psychiatrists and been treated as haphazardly with drugs as Esther was with electroshock. That aside, I loved this book. Now for the bad. One suggestion was to read a book with a colour in the title. I had previously tried reading Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews, quit after 100 pages and I stupidly thought " how hard can it be to finish?" The hardest thing I've done in a while. And it was a library book so I couldn't throw it against the wall when I was really offended. It was misogynistic garbage. The characters were paper thin. The main character, a sexy Russian spy named Dominika is forced to be a sparrow and is sent to the center of exploitation. She winds up trying to work a case on an American spy named Nate Nash. That's not a joke, he's named Nate Nash. This was made into a film this year with Jennifer Lawrence and I'm hoping she never actually read the book when she decided to do the film. It's filled with ridiculous sex scenes, that makes me think Jason Matthews has never had a conversation with a woman about sex, and Russian stereotypes. The Russians were so over the top villainous and then they send Dominika on a mission abroad even though she'd be the most justified defection I'd ever heard of. Dominika also has synthesia and is able to see good and bad oras and you guessed it,the Russians have bad colours while the Americans have good colours. And to top it off, the book is mostly dull. So much description and abbreviation and spy jargon and I was not interested in any of it. While I think the spy genre is probably not for me, I might try Le Carre in the future. Meanwhile I might try The Alice Network soon.

Last weekend I watched Salt with Angelina Jolie. I don't watch a lot of serious spy movies but absolutely nothing about that spy plot made sense. Other then wanting to protect your spouse no other motive made sense. But the stunts still made me gasp at times. It had that.

Good for her. Producers will say things like that to a writer's face but the casting call will say Caucasian actresses are needed.