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"Let Me Entertain You!"      Summer 2015 refreshingly released a number of flicks with incredible sets, actors and memorable scripts.  Hollywood is on a roll with summer enjoyment for the moviegoer.  Here are the top five favorite movies by this Forever Chic Style writer.   Added in will be a splattering of apparel for an evening out at the cinema. The Top Five       Can you believe this is Tilda Swinton as Dianna - A crazed magazine editor!  Makeup and Hair Make Quite a Difference!       V. Fifth Fav - Trainwreck (2015) - Amy Schumer; Bill Hader :   Written by funny gal Amy Schumer and directed by Judd Apatow guarantees a fun time at the theater. The  story is about Amy who was told as a little girl that monogamy isn't probable or possible by her father, Colin Quinn .  Now as an adult, and a magazine writer, she is a trainwreck when it comes to rel...

  Explosive! Extraordinary! Unforgettable!     "There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job". - Terrace Fletcher Whiplash is a headstrong film that literally entrances the audience from start to finish.  The film theme surrounds a young man, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), an ambitious jazz drummer student at the prestigious New York conservatory of music with an extraordinary musical gift who becomes entrenched in a personal war with Terrence Fletcher (J.K.Simmons)  a hardcore and often sadistic teacher. The struggle of egos between the two is downright mesmerizing as Fletcher's goal is to find someone to play the drums at the highest level possible (Charlie Parker-like) in the music industry. The task is almost impossible and the rigors inflicted on the students and especially Neiman are brutal and cringe worthy.   It reminds the audience that being the finest of anyth...

Birdman - Best Picture at 87th Academy Awards Play within a Movie - Hilarious Entertainment - A Dark Comedy   B irdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a quirky, clever, fresh and witty story about an aging actor, Michael Keaton,  Riggan, formerly a famous costumed superhero in Birdman films.  Riggan's turns down a lucrative opportunity to reprise the Birdman role and instead directs and stars in a Broadway stage version of a Raymond Carver short story.  The four person ensemble desperately needs one more player and in enters Ed Norton , Mike Shiner, an arrogant, highly talented bankable actor with a jerk complex.  Shiner a Method actor creates havoc causing drama amongst the four actors.  Riggan, additionally deals with Emma Stone , Sam, just out of rehab, assistant/daughter.  Stone is sarcastic, resentful and moody while dealing with a narcissistic father.   To smooth over all the chaos and...

Maj. Gen. Stewart Menzies: "This war, we're not winning it. If you speak a word of what I'm about to show you, you will be executed for high treason."  _______________________________   Alan Turing: "I'm just a mathematician." Joan Clarke: "Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."              The Imitation Game is loosely based on the true story of Alan Turing, ( Alan Turing: The Enigma a biography by Andrew Hodges) a brilliant British mathematician and cryptanalyst  assigned to a top secret team to break the unbreakable Nazi Enigma code, a complicated and sophisticated cipher used by the German army, which would help win WWII.  Turing is well known to computer scientists than to most moviegoers.   Turing's, Benedict Cumberbatch , primary goal and vision is to build the first computer that...

  "If you can take it, you can make it." Louis Zamperini (1917 - 2014) U nbroken is based on the true story of Louis Zamperini ,  an Olympian track runner, WWII bombardier, who overcame the horrors of war, was an alcoholic, family man and a spokesperson that lived an extraordinary life.   This mesmerizing tale is about an incorrigible youth who channeled defiance into running and became a track star in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.  A month later as a B-24 bombardier in WWII, Zamperini finds himself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a raft without food for 47 days with sharks circling only then to become a prisoner of war (POW) in a Tokyo, Japan and thus the saga unfolds.     Jack O'Donnell - Louis Zamperini                            The movie opens promisingly...

     St. Vincent is a heartwarming film about friendship, family and how people come together and help each other even if they are extraordinarily different. It is also a reminder that people can be interesting even if grumpy and that appearances can be deceiving unless noticed. The tale is about Maggie ( McCarthy ), a single mother moving into a home in Brooklyn with her 12-year old son Oliver ( Lieberher ).   Maggie is going through a divorce and is struggling to make ends meet and decides to hire the cranky neighbor, Vincent ( Murray ). Enters in Murray a cantankerous, sarcastic, drinker, broke gambler residing in a decrepit home with an adorable cat named Felix.  Of course, a strange and new friendship blossoms between the two adults.  Add pregnant, lady of the night, Danka ( Watts ), Catholic teacher Brother Geraghty ( O'Dowd ) and bookie Zucko ( Howard...

         To refresh our childhood memories - Maleficent is the evil sorceress in the Disney 1959 classic movie Sleeping Beauty .    According to the Ultimate Disney top 30 Disney Villain's countdown - Maleficent ranks #1.          "This story is not quite the one you were told."   Maleficent - The Movie - 2014                     The movie opens with a soothing voice-over setting the stage between two very different worlds.   All is seen initially through the eyes of Young Maleficent, India Eisley , as the voice calmly explains the two worlds - the world of man and the world of the forest and fairies.  The world of man is filled with envy, jealousy, hatred, war and the deadly sins that plague humanity creating a hellish environment.  And, the world of the forest and fairies beyond the moors is the opp...

                        Godzilla 2014 opens with clips from the famous 1950's films setting up the audience for a ride into the future with a new and refreshed version of this famous monster that is either good or bad.  Fans of the previous films of Godzilla will be excitedly and rapturously surprised.   And, for the new followers, the intensity of the film will provide a rush to want more of  the infamous Godzilla along with the sinister dinosaur moth monsters.   Godzilla is a mammoth monster that overshadows everything destroying all in its wake. This destructive villain appeared in Ishiro' Honda's 1954 film Godzilla .  The fall out from the film is a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd .   The Godzilla franchise has lasted over 60 years. The character is often suggested as the horror of all monsters possibly created from the...

     Imaginative, creative, zany, brightly lit in bursts of color, witty, entertaining and basically a sheer roller coaster ride with an lengthy list of A-list of actors.  Fans of Wes Anderson films such as Moonrise Kingdom , The Royal Tenenbaums , Fantastic Mr. Fox will not be disappointed by The Grand Budapest Hotel .   It is Anderson's first action picture, with high-speed James Bond races, madcap Charlie Chaplin scenes, prison escapades along with a quirky screenplay and a crazy cast of characters.           The saga begins with Mr. Moustafa, (F. Murray Abraham)  as the current hotel owner recounting his life story to Young Writer (Jude Law) in the ancient dining room of the legendary European hotel.  The adventures span three periods 1985, 1965 and 1932 with the primary emphasis on the 1930's.  Gustave H., (Ralph Fiennes) in the 30's is a f...

              Heaven Is for Real is based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name Heaven is for Real (2010) by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent.  This true story is about Reverend Todd Burpo ( Greg Kinnear ) and his son, Colton's ( Connor Corum) extraordinary recollection of his near death experience where he visits heaven, sees angels sing, meets Jesus and Burpo's grandfather Pop's.  The snippets of memory creates chaos, doubts, rejection and anger to the immediate family and friends yet evolves into something more for everyone in the community.  It is a story about faith, perceptions, beliefs and ultimately love.        The tale commences in Nebraska with Burpo and his wife, Sonja ( Kelly Reilly ) living a normal life that includes work, family life and singing in a church with a community of friends.  Friends and family connect every Sunday, listen to rousing up...

       Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption , by author Laura Hillenbrand, is based on the true story of Louis Zamperini , 97, born on January 26, 1917.  This mesmerizing tale is about an incorrigible youth who channeled defiance into running and became a track star in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.  A month later as a B-24 bombardier in WWII, Zamperini finds himself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a raft without food for 47 days with sharks circling only then to become a prisoner of war (POW) in a Tokyo, Japan and thus the saga unfolds.   Unbroken , has sold over 2.7 million copies since it was published in November 2010. I am now reading the story and it is riveting.  Hillenbrand is also the author of Seabiscuit . The movie Unbroken is based on Zamperini experiences and...

     Matthew McConaughey literally mesmerizes the screen in Dallas Buyers Club  based on events of the true story about Ron Woodroof, as a physically gaunt Texas rodeo riding hustler and part time electrician whose life was turned upside down when diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1985.  It was the early days of the AID's epidemic in the United States, and the country was not sure how to treat the virus though the FDA had established clinical trials using heavy doses of AZT, which had severe side effects.  With only 30 days to live, this homophobic Texan is in complete and utter shock from the diagnosis, shunned by his rabble rousing coke head buddies and unable to obtain the necessary clinical trial drugs to live.  Not one to sit still, Woodroof takes matters in his own hands and pursues alternative and unapproved medicines from Mexico.  McConaughey, Woodroof, figures out how to build a bus...