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Babies ***
reviewed by The Phantom
This movie
makes lots of women drool and go all motherly because it’s all about
babies, four of them, to be accurate, each from a different country: one
from Namibia (my favorite), one from Japan, one from Mongolia, and one
American from San Francisco. The babies are the stars and there is no
dialog, just the camera bouncing from place to place filming the babies
from when they were first born until they start walking. So it’s a year
in the life of these precious little bundles of joy. I must admit that I
found it just a little long in places, but as a study in how differently
babies are raised, it was educational and sometimes, even amusing.
Temple
Grandin ****
reviewed by The Phantom
It’s a TV
biopic, an entity that I rarely review, but I’ve made an exception this
time to get the word out, in case you haven’t seen this
made-for-TV-movie yet (even though it has been nominated for a slew of
Emmy’s this year – 2010). Temple is autistic, a condition we hear lots
about, but seldom do we watch movies about people who are coping with
it, and leading the amazing life that Temple has led. She has become one
of the leading authorities on the humane treatment of cattle. This is
her movie and every frame is worth watching.
Winters Bone ***
reviewed by The Phantom
This is a
hard scrabble desperation movie. A young, maybe 17 year old, Ozark
mountain girl faces off with lots of ornery mountain men and women while
trying to find her father. Apparently he’s a crumb, drunken bum, meth
cooker, and all around bad guy, who put the family house up as bail and
then didn’t appear for his court date. Daughter has to find him or the
family, two small kids and a mentally ill mother, will all get put out,
with nowhere to go and nobody else to turn to. It’s an eye opener,
seemed so real to me. I could just imagine that there are people in
Arkansas who really live like this
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