Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

Jean, This non-stop action from the opening scene where we have Tom Cruise hanging from the outside of a flying transport plane as it takes off. From then on we have all kinds of car chases, motorcycle chases, running chases by Tom Cruise and his co-stars. The Swedish actress, Rachel Ferguson holds her own in all this action as well as the double crosses. Foreign locations are part of this as in the Jason Bourne films. Here it is London, Vienna and Casablanca.  One long scene about an assassin in an opera house is reminiscent of previous movies. In fact, they use here a number of very old ploys that will make you say "I can not believe you did that with the story". But it is one entertaining movie which never catches it's breath.  Dad

P.S. The previews were:

Black Mass (Johnny Depp)
Steve Jobs
Pawn Sacrifice
The Revenant  (Leonardo (De Caprio)

Antman

Jean, This is a very entertaining and even quite funny film. It is amazing all the interesting action scenes you can come up with, based on s simple idea. The lead (Paul Ruud) can shrink once he puts on the "magic suit". The movie starts slowly but hang on as it goes into overdrive quickly. There are also some very interesting ideas projected on the screen, including his going  "sub-atomic" towards the climax. This is one  different "heist" film  as you can imagine.  Dad

The previews are:

Fantastic Four
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Everest

The Gift

Jean, This is a very, very, scary movie. You are on the edge of your seat very quickly in the story and then comes the surprises. Our audience jumped at least twice, but who's counting. The three main characters, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, and Joel Egerton are all excellent in their roles. Egerton wrote and directed the film. It is generally about a unexpected  meeting with  a  classmate from high school days. I could see this movie again to see what are all the clues I missed in my first viewing. It has a beautifully drawn out climax. One truth is exposed but then there is another one in this entertaining movie. Dad

P.S. The previews are:

Secret in their Eyes
Black Mass
About Ray
Snowden
Sucario
Bridge of Spies

The Man from U.N.C.L.E

Jean, This is a very stylish and slick (somewhat)action movie. The style comes from the locations of Italy, Berlin, London and on. The dresses and suits are always changing and coming from the best fashion houses. They even discuss what tie goes with what. The cast is star studded with Cavill (Superman), Hammer(Lone Ranger), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) and even Hugh Grant as the leader, Waverly from London. The story line is hard to follow and not that important to the movie as far as I could see. But there is plenty of humor and the guys seem to revolve around Miss Vikander's performance in an entertaining way.

Dad

The previews were:

Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2
Hitman, Agent 47
Everest
The 33
The Walk

Listen To Me Marlon

Jean, This is the Showtime documentary film of Marlon Brando's life made using some of the many hours of tape he recorded over his life now at the Lark Theater.  Also uses the "digitized images" of his head he had made while he speaks many lines. This is eerie. It goes through his life, from his youth, Broadway and Hollywood years. Also his serial womanizing and the family tragedies are shown using newsreel films. What we do not understand is why he became so lazy. You feel for Francis (Coppola) and how he is treated by Marlon. It is a very interesting and sad film.  Dad

P.S. He talks about many of his films in specifics with film clips, such as " Mutiny on the Bounty" and why he disagreed with the director (Lewis Milestone).