Our Comments: √ 05-16-2023 With HS in Niagara. Well made spaghetti western by the master of the genre, with excellent acting, overall structure and music. In some ways, the entire category is an acquired taste, but worth the effort to be able to appreciate the mastery. 3.5 star.
From a clean rating standpoint, this movie is not suitable. We give it a Clean 2.5.
TMDB: “As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.”
Our Comments: 05-13-2023 at our place in Niagara with NS. Rented it on Amazon. Still holds up. Very good entertainment. Obviously some moral issues. Enjoyment rating: 3.5 star.
TMDB: “Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.”
Our Comments: √ 05-12-2023 at our place in Niagara with NS. Beautifully crafted flick. 4 star.
TMDB: “A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.”
Our Comments: √ 05-08-2023 with HS, in Niagara. Very enjoyable, with a soft and friendly elegance. Excellent acting by both leading ladies. 3.5 star +
TMDB: “Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends… until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.”
Our Comments: 04-28-2023 at our place in Niagara with NS. Well executed and a very good laugh. Love the characters.Watched on Netflix. 3.5 star.
TMDB: “As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.”
Genre: TV, Comedy TMDB Rating: 8.4 Clean Rating: 5 Watched It On: iTunes and DVD
Watching the entire series again, beginning April 27, 2023 following a visit to Mt. Airy. Visited Mt. Airy again Jan 2024 and thus we watched a couple of episodes that month in Venice, FL. An ongoing pleasure.
My Comments: The series ran from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968. 249 half-hour episodes across eight seasons. 159 episodes in black & white and 90 in color. The producer of The Danny Thomas Show, Sheldon Leonard, and Danny, asked writer Arthur Stander (who’d contributed several of the “Danny Thomas” scripts) to create a pilot show for Griffith. The pilot was filmed and aired. This then gave birth to Andy’s own show. The show was filmed at Desilu Studios and other nearby locations in California.
The fictitious town of Mayberry was based largely upon Griffith’s home town of Mt. Airy (Surry County), North Carolina, with some inspiration from nearby Pilot Mountain (also in Surry County), plus a good dose of imagination. A wonderful place to visit, Mt. Airy hosts The Andy Griffith Museum and many recreations of the show’s locations and some locations that really exist (such as Snappy Lunch diner). The diner is mentioned in episode 7, which aired November 14, 1960, – “Andy the Matchmaker”). You can read about the California studio set and actual town here.
There’s something very near and dear to our hearts about Mayberry and its gentle, long-suffering, sheriff. Mayberry is where we all want to live. A place of community, normalcy, pleasantness, and bygone simplicity. This is an excellent TV series to enjoy, laugh along with, and relax with.
My Comments: √ 04/27/2023, our place in Niagara with NS. Watched S1,E1. Very good TV show. Enjoyment rating: 4 star.
TMDB: “A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she’s been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie’s guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.”
More: Covert Affairs was filmed in Toronto. It stars Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham. Premiered on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Canceled on January 6, 2015 after five seasons.
My Comments: √ 04/26/2023, our place in Niagara with NS. Very good story line, has feeling. 3.5 star.. The three of us wanted to watch through the entire Spiderman series while NS is in town. We only got to the first two this Spring of 2023. This is a beautifully crafted superhero film. I again conclude: it is so much better than its predecessor. Enjoyment rating: 4 star. Original review here.
My Comments: √ 04/25/2023, our place in Niagara with NS. About our 15th time; you expect the gags by now but still a very funny movie. 4 star.
TMBB: “A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.”
My Comments: 04/17-22/2023, in Venice with NS. Watched S1, Episodes 1 to 3 on Amazon Prime. We liked them, they hold up. 4 star.
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
