Gone with the Wind: Movie Review

Period romance.  War Epic. Family saga.  Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance.  Star acting aglow with charisma and passion.  Moviemaking craft at its height.  These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind.

This dynamic and durable screen entertainment of the Civil War-era South comes home with the renewed splendor of a New 70^th-Anniversary Digital Transfer capturing a higher resolution image from Restored Transfer Elements than ever before possible.  David O. Selnick’s monumental production of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book can now enthrall new generations of home viewers with a majestic vibrance that befits one of Hollywood’s greatest achievements.  Winner of 10 Academy Awards including 1939 Best Picture.

Scarlett O’Hara (Vivian Leigh) sets her sights on Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) who sets his sights on another woman, Melanie (Olivia de Havilland).  While Scarlett works to make Ashley hers, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) takes a fancy to Scarlett, who quickly shuns his advances.

Gone with the Wind is a Civil War-era tale of unrequited love that will warm the hearts of viewers.

Famous Quotes

Rhett Butler to Scarlett O’Hara:  You should be kissed and kissed often.

Scarlett O’Hara:  As God as my witness, I shall never go hungry again!

Rhett Butler:  Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn!

Starring Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland

(1939) 233 minutes

Murder on the Orient Express: Movie Review

Kenneth Branagh directs and leads an all-star cast, including Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, and Leslie Odom, Jr., in this stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mystery based on the best-selling novel by Agatha Christie.  Everyone’s a suspect when a murder is committed on a lavish train ride, and a brilliant detective must race against time to solve the puzzle before killer strikes again.  Murder on the Orient Express “will keep audiences guessing” (Peter Debruge, Variety) (“Cool, sexy & powerful.”, Rebecca Lewis, Metro)

Rated PG-13 for Violence and Thematic Elements

Starring Tom Bateman, Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom, Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley

The Conjuring 2: Movie Review

Reprising their roles from The Conjuring, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.  Known as England’s Amityville, the Enfield Haunting was the most documented case in paranormal history.  Discover the truth behind the event that shocked the world.

134 minutes

Rated R for Terror and Horror Violence

Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Simon McBurney, Franka Potente

Annihilation: Movie Review

From the director of Ex Machina comes “A NEW SCI-FI CLASSIC”.   Biologist and former soldier Lena (Natalie Portman) is shocked when her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone no one has ever returned from.  Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.

Experience the visual stunning film effects critics have hailed as a “BOLD AND INNOVATIV THRILLER”.

Starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodrigues, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac.  114 minutes.  Rated R for Violence, Bloody Images, and Some Sexuality.

All Saints; Movie Review

A refreshing, inspiring true story about salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock (John Corbett), after being ordered to shut down a small church, decides to risk it all, and, with a little faith, and help from refugees from Southeast Asia, plant seeds that may just save the future for everyone.

All Saints is heartfelt story that encourages others to have just the “faith of a mustard seed”.  It proves that with just a little faith, dreams can come true.  And maybe save the church as well as the community and possibly the world.

If you’re looking for a family movie based on values, All Saints is that movie to watch.