Coming Attractions
Monday, April 1, 2024 (No Joke!)
Mon, 4.1 - PROBLEMISTA @ 4:25 & 6:30
Tues, 4.2 - PROBLEMISTA @ 4:25 & 6:30
Wed, 4.3 - PROBLEMISTA @ 4:25 & 6:30
Thur, 4.4. - PROBLEMISTA @ 4:25 & 6:30
Fri, 4.5 - ONE LIFE @ 4:25 & 6:45
Sat & Sun, 4.6.&7 - ONE LIFE @ 2, 4:25 & 6:45
Mon, 4.8 - ONE LIFE @ 4:25 & 6:45
Tue, 4.9 - ONE LIFE @ 4:25 & 6:45
Wed, 4.10 - ONE LIFE @ 4:25 & 6:45
Thu, 4.11 - ONE LIFE @ 4:25 & 6:45
Following are a few of the comments, used here as adjectives, that your fellow movie goers have employed when polled upon leaving the auditorium after a screening of PROBLEMISTA. I will combine them into a single sentence, one I am quite sure Hemingway would hate.
PROBLEMISTA is a cute, adorable, better than expected, character driven, refreshing love story, with several important topics of the human condition covered and examined. Well OK then. Maybe the Have nots finally get to Have some. Of whatever it is they seek. In this case, it is the story line. How to - legally - stay in the US, with an expired Visa looming like a ticking time bomb. How could hilarity and drama NOT follow a setup like that???? You will have to make the short pilgrimage to the HLT sometime before Thursday to find out for yourself. Por favor.
ONE LIFE is a gamble. Why? Because it is rare - as in never - the we pinch a title from Big Brother up at the Pavilion. But the available alternatives are bleak. There simply is a dearth of decent films available from the Hollywood movie machine. And so, after reading a few review, scouring the digital tabloids, and tossing the yarrow stalks, I am taking the gamble that YOU will appreciate this selection. Why? Try this for a storyline:
Storyline
The true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realized it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed? Fifty years later, it's 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn't able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It's not until a live BBC television show, 'That's Life', surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children - now adults - that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.
In closing, there have been three movies in my life during which I have cried. Not sobbing, my dog died, wailing, but, a chocked-up, empathetic tear or two style of emotional release. Those were:
1) Pollyanna (I was 9)
2) ET (I was 29)
3) Schindler’s List (I was 39)
Any novice data analyst will quickly draw conclusions. What happened when you were 19 and, what has happened since Schindler? Taking another real risk, I will confess that at 19 I was way too involved with baseball, my GF and my ’65 mustang to see may movies, other than the one’s playing at the theatre where I was an usher, and between the ages of 40 and 70, my emotions were maturing faster than Hollywood screenwriters could crank out more tear-jerkers. I guess. Regardless, I am looking forward to watching Sir Anthony in this role. Hope you are too.
See ya at the HLT,
Kevin
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