Last Christmas - 去年聖誕節

Last Christmas (去年聖誕節) is an 2019 film. The movie stars Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding. The supporting cast include Michelle Yeoh and Emma Thompson. The movie was based on the famous song of the same name originally performed by Wham. Andrew Ridgeley of Wham also makes a cameo appearance.



Kate is a choir signer in her native Yugoslavia, the Croatia part. The family immigrated London and Kate works as an elf in a year round Christmas store while auditioning for parts. However, Kate seems to have a self destructive bend and fails all of her auditions. Estranged from her parents, she moves around from friend to friend to spend her nights. Kate than meets Tom Webster one night and they keep bumping into each other. Eventually they strike up a friendship and that leads to a little more. Eventually, there's a love connection. But there are always complications to the connection. Kate in the meantime runs out of places to stay and goes home at Tom's urging. At home, she has to mend relationships with her Mom and Sister. Can Kate get her act together to find purpose in life and love?

This movie was really sweat. I watched it with my teenage daughter whom loved it. I thought the story moved well and I wasn't bored at any point. The movie is not very long and gets through the story quite well. I felt warm and fuzzy as I watched with my daughter. It was also the first week of the California Quarantine and made the time go by fast. I also loved the Wham and George Michael inspired music throughout the film. It was a bit of the time machine.

I loved the extras and their Central London locations. Makes me want to visit London as it reminded me of some the alleyways of old Taipei. I highly recommend this film and have now put it down as one of my favorite 2019 films.

Men in Black: International - MIB星際戰警:跨國行動

Men in Black: International (MIB星際戰警:跨國行動) is an 2019 film. The movie stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. The supporting cast include Rebecca Ferguson, Rafe Spall, Laurent Larry Bourgeois, Liam Neeson, and Emma Thompson. The movie is the fourth film of the MIB series, but a spin off.

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A young Molly Wright sees MIB agents save her family and spends her life trying to prove them. Agent H and High T are partners and stop an alien invasion in Paris. After the event, High T than runs the European branch of MIB. Molly find MIB in New York and is accepted and becomes Agent M. Agent M is paired with Agent H. But instead of getting an investigating case, they are sent to babysit an alien making a trip to Earth. But things get interesting when the alien is killed and they are framed. On the run, they have to clear their name and solve the mole in the MIB. Can they do all that and save the world?



This movie was high on action and a very hard to follow plot. The chemistry of the two is good, but that didn't help the movie much. I won't be watching this a second time. But if its on TNT of FX in the future, I may watch a couple of segments.

Burnt - 天菜大廚

Burnt (天菜大廚) is an 2015 film. The movie stars Bradley Cooper. The supporting cast include Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, Daniel Brühl, Matthew Rhys, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alicia Vikander, Uma Thurman, and Emma Thompson. The movie primarily takes place in London.

Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones, a former 2 star chef of an Paris restaurant. The movie starts with him I NOLA shucking 1 million oysters to make amends and being 2 plus years sober from his past life in Paris. After he shucks his 1 millionth oyster, he leaves and flies to London in a grand plan to start a restaurant that will get 3 stars. Along the way, he looks up contacts from his past and young talent to join him. Along the way, there are many failures and character searching.

I really enjoyed this movie. It flowed from beginning to end with a purpose. Get those 3 stars. But the therapist was right, what happens if you don't get it. Life must still go on. For those of us in the regular world, we deal with this much more and wouldn't be in those extraordinary situations that a movie presents.

Because I love watching cooking reality shows, this fictionalized one made it seem much more exciting. Because you get to see what they live through after the cooking stops. The folks in the food services industry have to work really hard.

I watched this movie via Netflix.

Beauty and the Beast - 美女與野獸

Beauty and the Beast (美女與野獸) is an 2017 Disney film. The movie stars Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as the Beauty and Beast. The supporting cast include Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson. This is the live-action remake of the 1991 animated Disney film of the same name.

In a village, a father and daughter pair must make things work when the mother passes early. Maurice is a expert clock maker that gets captured while making a delivery. Belle volunteers to exchange herself for her father's freedom. The Beast is cursed and when the last rose pedal falls, he'll stay a beast forever.

If you saw the 1991 version when you were younger, which I don't remember, you'll like this one. The technology of today in some sense makes what would have been animated in yester-year live action today. You just need the doe to make the film. Which Disney has plenty of.

Emma Watson's turn as Belle was excellent and it wasn't a damsel in distress, but a strong female character who bucks the trends of tradition for the freedom of today.