Spring in a Small Town

This was ok but not the best Chinese movie ever made like many claim. For example Zhang Yimou has made much better movies. It's slow. The plot revolves around a sick man and his wife. They have a loveless marriage and things get worst when the man's friend who used to be her lover comes back. There are DVDs out there of this that don't have subtitles so I suggest looking for a subtitled stream online.

Practical Magic 2

This wasn't that good. I didn't think the first movie was that good either but it was better. I got what I expected. A curse has been placed on Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullocks' family that any man they fall in love with will die. Bullocks' daughter Joey King travels to Europe to try to find answers on why her new love is in a coma. Nicole and Sandra hunt her down because they know that she's getting herself in danger. There were good performances all around. I find it weird that they didn't cast Evan Rachel Wood again but Joey did a good job. I felt like the ending with Stockard Channing was a cop out.

Spiderman Brand New Day

So far this has been the best movie I've seen in the theatre all year. It's entertaining and intelligent. I'm not surprised it's done so well at the box office. In this Peter Parker has almost no friends and is miserable about being forgotten. He still is clinging to the friends of his past. He runs into them and saves the day. Not everything is resolved but there is glimmer of hope. The bad guy in this movie is played by Sadie Sink. She's a telepath but Peter learns that things are more complicated than they appear. I also like the friendship between Jon Bernthal and Tom Holland's characters. I'm ready for another Spiderman movie.

Coyote vs. Acme

I've never really been into Looney Tunes but I decided to give this a try. I'm glad I did. It was fun. Like Who Framed Roger Rabbit it combines live action with animation. Coyote gets a lawyer to sue Acme for their defective products throughout the years. The lawyer is reluctant and just wants to settle. Soon the lawyer finds conspiracies about Acme and the use of their products. He is met with threats to his life as well. All Coyote really cares about though is the woodpecker. I wish there were more movies like this and ones done as well.

Shaun the Sheep the movie

I decided to watch this since a Shaun the Sheep movie is coming out. I've never watched the show. Nevertheless I thought it was cute. It was mostly silent. The sheep's farmer gets memory loss. The sheep spend some time in the city and eventually rescue the farmer. He recovers his memory. There's also a nasty villain. It was made by Aardman Animation most known for Wallace and Gromit.

The Magic Faraway Tree

This was a so so children's movie. It was based on Enid Blyton's novels. The first of the series was written in 1939. I think that the problem with this movie is that there is too much of a need to make the fantasy world hip for modern viewers. If it was more old fashioned maybe it would have been better. Andrew Garfield and his wife move out into the country to grow tomatoes. He brings his kids who are disgruntled about leaving technology behind and moving to the middle of nowhere. They discover a fantasy world in the forest. The villain was underdeveloped. I think more time should have been spent on that. I put an interlibrary loan on a book from Enid Blyton. I'm curious about the series this was based on. Still it's not the worst movie I've seen in the theatre this year.

The End of Oak Street

In this movie dinosaurs meet 1982 suburbia. Anne Hathaway plays a mother who is frustrated with her marriage to Ewan McGregor. She is secretly writing a novel in the basement. I thought that Anne Hathaway did a really good job. The ending seems like a typical happy ending but there's more going on. It's pretty dark just read up on it. This movie didn't match the expectations I had for it. I thought it was just ok.