The excessive amount of headlines I’ve seen about Mackenzie Shirilla lately brought me to this doc. Why should I care if she wants to be a life coach when she gets out of the big house?
Now I get why that would raise eyebrows. It’s because she was such a hot mess express at 17, when she committed murder by motor vehicle. Mackenzie’s not the only one to be angry at here. She’s exactly the person her parents raised her to be.
Drunk man vs. furniture. Here Chaplin’s not the Tramp, but a very inebriated man in a top hat and tux and questionable taste in decorating. He faces one conflict after another on his way to bed after a night out. Man vs. table particularly stood out to me. Still, I doubted this would hold my attention for the full run time. That was before I saw man vs. stairs, which is worth the price of admission on its own.
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Fifteen years before Robert Redford made this, his final film, I saw him speak about environmental (and other) activism on a college campus. My main memory is of three generations of women swinging their heads around in 0.1 seconds when he entered the room. (I was one of them.) Then in his late 60s, he'd retained his movie star good looks and easily charmed the socks off the room.
In The Old Man & the Gun, Bob delivers peak old guy…
Time changes us all, but the sea remains the same. In a span of minutes a mother carries her baby to the shore, they return and the child frolics in the waves, then the grown daughter escorts her aging mother back to watch the water roll in and out. 😢 These scenes evoked so much feeling in me I watched them three times in a row, and I haven’t even mentioned the film’s moving climax! A masterful work.
