Instant Family

Rated: PG-13
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
Director: Sean Anders
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne

     This film stars Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, as a couple who decides to become foster parents to three children. They then find themselves that being adoptive parents, is more challenging than they thought.


     This is a good movie. Parents, It's rated PG-13, So I wouldn't recommend this flick to younger audiences. If they edited out all the foul language, and all the other suggestive material, it probably would of gotten a PG.

Final Grade:
A

The Upside

Rated: PG-13
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 6 minutes
Director: Neil Burger
Starring: Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston

     This movie is about a New York parolee (Hart), who gets a job working for  a Bitter, Crippled, Rich man (Cranston), who feels like life is no longer worth living. They develop a friendship that started out as a professional relationship, and they learn that life is worth living.


    I thought that this film is way better than Green Book. Mainly because, that there isn't nearly as much foul language. But still, Parents, I'm not sure if your little ones would be interested in this movie. But your older kids, maybe.


Final Grade:
A+

Green Book

Rated: PG-13
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
Director: Peter Farrelly
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali

     In 1962, Tony "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, a tough bouncer, becomes the driver for the African-American pianist Don Shirley, for a concert tour through the deep south states. During the journey, they develop a friendship and a understanding that would change both their lives.


     It's a good movie but, this award winner has some foul language, smoking, and other suggestive materials. If it didn't have any of that stuff, I would've given it an A. So parents, I wouldn't recommend this film to your little ones at all. I think it's meant for an adult audience.

Final Grade:
B

Unbreakable

Rated: PG-13
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes 
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson


    I streamed This thriller that's about David Dunn (Willis), who is the the only survivor of a deadly train accident. Not only he survives BUT, he's COMPLETELY unharmed. As he wonders why, he encounters a strange man named Elijah Price (Jackson), who explains that there are a certain number of people that are considered "unbreakable."

     This is a good film. If your into supernatural thrillers, Sci-Fi, etc. Then I encourage you to check this film out.


Final Grade:
A

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Rated: PG-13
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
Director: David Yates
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterson

      In this first Harry Potter Prequel/Spinoff, British youn active wizard Newt Scamander travels to a mid-1920's new york while holding a mysterious leather suitcase full of magical creatures, that mistakenly somehow escape causing absolute chaos around the big apple, while disasters ascribe the evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald, Newt's suitcase will be lost. I think this film is good prequel to the Harry Potter franchise.


Final Grade:
B+


Click here for my review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald:
 https://www.reviews.missourimovielover.com/2018/11/fantastic-beasts-crimes-of-grindelwald.html

A Brilliant Young Mind

Rated: PG-13

Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes

Release Date: September 11, 2015

Director: Morgan Matthews

Starring: Asa Butterfield

     In this film, an autistic math prodigy struggles to connect with people around him. most of all, his loving widowed mother. But, he finds comfort in numbers. When he takes under the wing of a teacher, they forge an unusual friendship and, he finds new friends when he attends the British International Mathematics Olympiad. I streamed a rather "sanitized" version of this film on Living Scriptures, and it's good. Probably a better version than the original version than what IMDB.com says. So, if you wanna watch it, than my advice is watch it on Living Scriptures. Not Netflix, Vudu, Hulu, etc.

Final Grade:

A

What Dreams May Come

Rated: PG-13
Release Date: October 2, 1998

Runtime: 1 hour 53 mins

Director: Vincent Ward

Starring: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra

 I streamed this Oscar-Winning film this evening, and it's about the late Robin Williams who dies in a car accident, and is guided through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Albert (Gooding Jr.). Even his children are there. But, when his wife dies, and goes to the underworld, he must go there himself, and save her. There is one thing that I do like about this movie, and one thing I don't like about it, the thing I don't like, is the language, The thing I do like about it, despite the fact that It came out 20 years ago, the oscar-winning visual effects. 

 Final Grade:

B