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“Love, Simon” Review

The Next Gay love story is bringing a handful of people to the theaters this weekend at the box office as it brought in roughly 11.5 million ranking number 5 for its opening weekend.

20th Century Fox’s Love, Simon stars Nick Robinson in his third consecutive teen romance film, this time as he is playing a character with a huge secret.  In this day when the world is becoming much more acceptable of the LGBTQ, it still brings light to the fact that these people are the only ones that have to come out about their identity.  All in all, Simon does a good job of trying to conceal his feelings, that is until he falls in love with a mysterious “Blue” online.

Throughout the movie, the love grows making Simon brave enough to come out to his family finally by encouraging Blue to do the same, but will it be enough to make them realize that they can be together outside the email messages and not worry about what others will say.

The film also stars, Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner, who play Simon’s liberal parents who must confront the truth and be okay with it.

At an hour and 50 minutes, Love Simon will have you wrapped around the story and rooting for love in a new way that is becoming more the norm as the lgbtq community is accepted by the freestyle world.

Love Simon is currently out in theaters.

 

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“Showman” Slow To Open

Despite the low numbers at the box office, Warner Brothers The Greatest Showman is expected to deliver big this holiday season leading up to the awards ceremonies in the new year.

The musical adventure of the legendary P.T Barnum who revolutionized how audience have a good time by bringing light to the truly unique has been nominated thus far for three Golden Globes including Best Original Song, Best Motion Picture, comedy or musical as well as Best Performance for a lead actor forHugh Jackman.

The Showman follows the life of PT Barnum from a poor tailor’s son with dreams of creating something unique.  His childhood sweetheart, Charity (Michelle Williams) is with him from the first moment he makes her laugh, not to the approval of her high-class parents who only want the best for their daughter.  Upon returning from finishing school, Barnum and Charity run off to marry and make a life of their own.

Through the creative lyrics of the lyricist that worked on the Oscar award-winning La La Land, the music will have you toe tapping along as one witnesses the creative genius of the man who still to this day receives a lot of flak for his show choices, but ultimately it shows the compassion of Barnum in order to highlight the specialities of those individuals who are different from the rest.

Also starring Zac Efron as his unwilling apprentice, Philip Carlyle, who learns that happiness can be found in the absurd,  the Greatest Showman came out in theaters for the Christmas weekend on December 20, 2018 and is currently playing in a theater near you.

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“Patriots” Stand Strong

Lionsgate’s historical drama thriller is expanding to theaters this weekend as other new movies are coming out.  Despite its slow start of bringing in just under 1-million dollars at the box office, it is a movie that is worth seeing on the big screen.

Patriot’s Day stars Mark Walberg, a paramedic/ first responder, who saw first hand the devastating impact of the Boston Marathon Bombing including the aftermath, where the entire city of Boston pulled together to find the terrorists that planted the series of bombs in April 2013.

Overall, Patriots Day combined real life footage with that of the actors, in order to put together a film that truly captures the heart of the matter and showed the strength of one city and state that bounced back and survives today as Boston Strong.

Patriots Day also features, John Goodman as Commissioner Ed Davis, Michelle Monaghan as Walberg’s wife and Kevin Bacon as Special Agent Richard DesLauriers, as they worked together with the real life heroes to make this a movie to fully honor the fallen.

Patriots Day came out in theaters Dec 21 of last year and is expanding its reach this week for even more to see and remember.  See it in a theater near you.