Miracles from Heaven - not a great movie, perhaps a FAITH booster!

 

This is about Faith, the struggle, how to reconnect, and wait out the worst

If you Google the title, you will find a description along the lines of "Miracles from Heaven is a 2016 American Christian comedy drama...", but this might be the worst way to indicate the plot or the story that will unfold. I had my reasons to watch the movie. I am a big Jennifer Garner fan. I believe she has been the most perfect performer to have appeared across Hollywood productions, but with very little credit. As a movie summary, Miracles from Heaven speaks about a girl with an impossible-to-treat to treat type of digestive or intestinal disorder. Given my history of IBS and my recurring collisions with Faith, it made a lot of sense to watch Miracles from Heaven via my Amazon Prime account. The movie is not spectacular in any way. It does not get preachy, and neither is the plot too over-dramatic. Garner puts in a splendid performance, but there are moments when she oversteps into unwanted hysterics.

Reviewing Guess Who – Inspired by Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, without getting Desperate!

There was something very likable, very identifiable with the original – Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner has been repeatedly referred to as a classic. My wife really loved it, while I just like the movie. In parts, the movie is brilliant. The cast seems like the ideal fit for the story that is really just about a very friction-heavy evening with conversations and arguments explaining everything, leaving very little to doubt. What has been referred to as Sidney Poitier’s best can be remade, but the remake has to be really good—Guess Who comes close to being a remake, but it seems like a more contemporary, spicier version of the original, borrowing the basic plot and keeping the overall treatment very different. Thanks to Ashton Kutcher, the laughs are not contrived. His future father-in-law is Black and dominant in a very literal way but the performance is rather good.

Few words about DDD - Dil Dhadakne Do

If you are expecting a generous sprinkling of words like "awesome" and "must-watch", you just hit the wrong platform. This is my blog, and I tend not to be that unforgiving for any type of content - visual or textual. DDD or Dil Dhadakne Do was watchable because of one big reason - nobody tried to act beyond the scope of their roles. The supporting cast does not look like trying to grab some highlight, right from below the feet of the main cast that has been chosen smartly. Zoya Akhtar has proven again that she can direct a plot that is attuned well to what the Millennials understand. Dil Dhadakne Do is very relatable because of a simple trick, a game that anybody can understand - it borrows situations and ideas and the aftermath(s) of many events from real lives, from everyday lives of people like you and me.

Hannibal: The TV Series, really cooking humans?

The second season of Hannibal is currently being aired by AXN. I have to confess, I have a liking for things that are gore and somewhat extreme. I loved the movie predecessor to this series, i.e. Silence of the Lambs. I think the direction was simple and thus, so brilliant. Special effects could not have made the impact that actual actors and real backgrounds did. Coming to Hannibal, the TV series was impressive in its first season.