You may have your preferred section–the newspaper interview with Jacqueline Kennedy or her handling of grief–but Jackie (2016) comes together all very well as a whole. The film goes back and forth from Jackie Kennedy’s newspaper interview at her home in Massachusetts, to her grief immediately after her husband President John Kennedy’s assassination. Interview and grief…

There are no ballerina pivots in Jackie (2016), but it is about “pivots” in life or pivotal events.  Something happens and life revolves around this, it is pivotal. The event can be untimely and disturbing, but life is not forever altered by the event. The event and its aftermath passes. This movie is about how…

Transformers (2007): it’s about sorting out the problems between machines in earth’s backyard. But will the people on earth be neutral? In the neighborhood, or in the vicinity, are the machines, the transformers. They are from another planet, but fighting on planet Earth. That’s somebody else’s backyard. Earth would be neutral and not involved whatsoever…

It occurred to me, after posting last, of the wasteful handling of food, a theme, as I see it, in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009). I could write about themes in other posts that I see in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, but I won’t go into such detail. I could write…

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