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I mentioned in a previous blog, that I had seen the movie It, but I never wrote a review of it. So I thought that I would do just that.

The story is extremely straight forward: In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

I am not usually into horror films, but It has captured what a good horror film is: Exciting, creepy and full of great performances.

The runtime for this movie is a genre-breaking 2 hours and 15 minutes. Usually, horror films has a strict 90 minute runtime. Think about it: Every horror movie you have seen lasts 90 minutes. It's like there were some committee going "Right, we need a standard runtime on our horror movies. Waddaya got?"

Anyway, sidetrack! Let's get back to the review!

Bill Skarsgård stars as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. He gives an awesome performance, and he is sufficiently creepy enough to pull off what will undoubtedly be hailed a legendary performance!

The kids are being played by Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer and Wyatt Oleff, and they are each doing a wonderful job. There is also a particularly nasty bully called Henry Bowers, who is played by Nicholas Hamilton. Being the victim of bullying myself, I can confirm that this Henry Bowers is THE single worst person I have ever seen in a movie. He is a vicious, nasty piece of human garbage, but all bullies have a weakness - in Henry's case, it's his cop father.

The six kids, lovingly named The Losers Club, Henry Bowers and the entity known as Pennywise form a fantastic horror movie, that I really, really enjoyed. For the first time ever, I am looking forward to a horror sequel!

10/10, hands down!

Saw this movie last night, very riveting and disturbing. It is about child sex trafficking. Disney did not want to release the movie which is interesting since Disney is supposed to care about social issues and children. Amazon and Netflix were not interested. The movie was released by Angel Studios and had a budget of $14 million. So far has ticket sales of $125 million. Now will be opening internationally. Jim Caviezel hopes this will have the same effect Uncle Tom’s Cabin had on peoples awareness of the horror of slavery. In the movie it states there are now more people enslaved than at any time in history.

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LOVE me some Michael EALY!!!!!!!!! Don't care if he loves in a crazy way! hahahaha

Not just because of the cinematography and other technical aspects , but also for the emotional touch supported by those mesmerising musical representation ,

It's going to be an EVERGREEN movie.








And the Qala jukebox..

I went for many years without a TV in the bedroom. One woman I dated insisted on it as she couldn't fall asleep without some distraction. She brought over a small screen that had a timer. If I recall, her favorite channel was Oxygen. TV shows for and about women. The late night format was stories about women who were abused by the entire world, not to mention disgruntled ex's.
Oh, I mentioned it.
I'm a believer that when you sleep your subconscious is still absorbing your surroundings. That said, a few times I jumped out of my sleep to hear a woman shrieking when a man holding a knife was approaching... Sorry, no more TV when I'm sleeping.
That forced her to buy a clock radio that also played the sound of the ocean waves crashing on the shore! I was glad when that relationship was over... and take your stinkin' TV with you.
Fast forward 15 years. There is a TV in the bedroom now. It doesn't get used very often. In the past 3 months, a few evening news reports and on Sunday mornings, it's seen some Kung Fu martial arts and one Chinese comedy with English subtitles. That's it. No more chic channel.

Leonard Nimoy...a fine actor, well-known as Mr Spock from Star Trek..... has passed on but will not soon be forgotten. As the enigmatic Vulcan on Star Trek he was always the voice of reason combined with a touch of humor. He made Spock a name known to most...Trekkies or not...with his pointed ears,serious face but dry humor...his character brought a new type of hero to the series and we loved it! Recent bad health has plagued the actor and finally caught up...but he will still be there for us all to see on the screen...forever Spock in the series...Leonard Nimoy, farewell and thanks for the memories..

This isn't about the SOTU.
Its about alpha waves, predictive programming & the Eagle in the White House. Thanks to technology, no one who reads this not-blog can feign ignorance of the subject.
..Those of you who still think Trump colluded with Putin to over awe the NY computers within the Electoral College
Need to pay closer attention to the TV
Namely:
Trackdown: end of the world ( 1958
[ hint: pay attn. to the Trump-- yeah, that's his name- character who wants to build a wall.]
Back to the Future...'84 ) no other motion picture has more Easter eggs
Per foot of film than this film & it's sequels. The Biff character is Trump-esque.
The Simpson's...in the year 2000, the Trump presidency is predicted, parodied, and unfinished ??...because
Lisa Simpson came to town & tamed or subdued the swamp creature.
Donnie Darko...? Didn't see it & don't recall the year..
But it predicts [ trump] will not complete his term of office..( this info was gleaned from a YouTube decode.
Thus this insane Mueller investigation is simply to paralyze half the country with alpha waves ( mindless TV.
Just yesterday CNN deliberately put a non-magical R next to the name of a governor who in fact-- parties with magic Dave. The reason they do this is because they are criminally insane...and are greasing the skids for regional ( read, beaster) government.

I played softball tonight and am now chillin', watching Colbert.

Former NJ governor, republican Chris Christie was his guest.
The last line of the interview was first Colbert saying "we have to go now,
but Trump's former campaign manager, Steve Bannon is in jail.
Are you going to visit him ?"

Christie's reply; "I wouldn't visit him if he lived next door. He's a bum !"

In the USA, and possibly overseas, there was perhaps the most successful 'spin-off' comedy of all time: FRASIER (which was spun off from CHEERS). One of the characters, about 5' 5" bundle of cuteness by the character name of DAPHNE (Jane Leeves), and an equally cute (to American ears) English accent.



As it turns out, the guy who played the beer-swilling American Dad was actually English and had worked hard to change his accent, and then helped 'Daphne" with her English accent.

So odd.

"I always thought Daphne's accent was a bit "off". As Jane Leeves wasn't from the north of England though, I'm presuming that she was doing her best to imitate a Manchester accent, although I'd have thought a top notch dialect coach in the U.S. could have enabled her to sound more Mancunian. John Mahoney was from Manchester originally but had worked so hard to lose his British accent years before that I'm presuming he couldn't help Jane that much. Either way, I think we Brits notice the difference between a Lancashire or Yorkshire accent but doubt the average American viewer would. As for the "bumbershoot" line, I have to say I thought it was ridiculous as I commented to my Australian husband.He hadn't heard of the expression either despite having taught in the north west of England for a while. If you love the show, I think you have to forgive the writers for the odd slip up when it comes to authenticity."


Jane Leeves


John Mahoney


Example of Mancunian Accent