Showing posts with label All in the Family Edition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All in the Family Edition. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #46: All in the Family Edition: Mother-Son Relationships (Biologically Related)




Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is All in the Family Edition: Mother-Son Relationships (Biologically Related)

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Every last Thursday for the first nine months of 2015 I'm running the All in the Family Edition and this is the fifth theme for the edition. Here are three of my picks:

Animal Kingdom (2010)
The film follows a criminal family and features the relationships between the family members: between brothers, uncles and nephews, and mother and sons. Jacki Weaver plays Janine the matriarch of the family who may seem like just a loving and fussy mother at first, but she has a very strong hold on all her sons. Animal Kingdom has almost a silent but intense air of menace that permeates throughout the film that have you anticipating something bad to happen at every turn. I highly recommend this movie.
 
Mother (2009)
In Mother, Yoon Do-joon suffers from some unnamed mental/learning disability making him slower than most of his peers. When a girl is murdered, he becomes the prime suspect; it doesn't help that he's too slow to defend himself. Despite Yoon Do-joon being seen as guilty by the police and public, his mother believes he is innocent and will do whatever it takes to prove it; how far will she go to protect her child?

Nowhere Boy (2009)
The movie follows the teen years of John Lennon and features his relationship with his aunt that raised him and his absentee biological mother who comes back into his life after years away. The two women are opposites. One is mature and likes order, The other free-spirited; encouraging Lennon's interest in art and music. Nowhere Boy is kind of the perfect pick today since you'd basically get two mothers here.

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #42: All in the Family Edition: Father-Daughter Relationships (Biologically Related)




Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is All in the Family Edition - Father-Daughter Relationships (Biologically Related)

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Every last Thursday for the first nine months of 2015 I'm running the All in the Family Edition and this is the fouth theme for the edition. Here are three of my picks:

Emma (1996)
Not necessarily my favourite Emma adaptation; but it ticks the criteria of being a movie. I've also already picked Clueless a few weeks ago, so that is out and honestly I don't think I can ever not like a Jane Austen movie unless it is really terrible. I'm choosing Emma because she is thoroughly devoted to her father, Mr Woodhouse, who after losing his wife, Emma's mother, when Emma was a little girl, becomes a chronic worrier. Although a vivacious young lady, Emma has never left her hometown to always be by her father constantly reassuring him that all is right in the world. Their relationship is just so sweet.

Washington Square (1997)
Washington Square also features a motherless young woman, Catherine, whose mother dies giving birth to her. Left with only one parent, she is devoted to her father, Dr Sloper, who although does his duty as a father, struggles to show affection towards Catherine. The father and daughter relationship unravels when a man of no wealth courts Catherine.

Trouble with the Curve (2012)
I found myself liking this movie coming in with no expectations. Amy Adams is great in it as an estranged daughter of Gus, a baseball scout. She reluctantly goes on a recruiting trip with Gus, who is stubbornly putting off his eye treatment, to make sure he's ok and also to get closure on why he has pushed her away all these years.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #37: All in the Family Edition: Mother-Daughter Relationships (Biologically Related)




Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is All in the Family Edition: Mother-Daughter Relationships (Biologically Related)

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Every last Thursday for the first nine months of 2015 I'm running the All in the Family Edition and  this is the third theme for the edition. Last month's the theme was Father-Son Relationships and in January it was Married Couples. This week we're looking at Mother-Daughter Relationships and my picks are in chronological order.
 
White Oleander (2002)
In White Oleander; Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), a poet, is idolised by her young impressionable daughter, Astrid (Alison Lohman). When Ingrid is sent to jail for life for the murder of her boyfriend, Astrid is shuffled from one foster home to another. Self centered and cold, Ingrid maintains her influence over Astrid through her letters and Astrid's prison visits, attempting to mold her daughter into her ideals to the point of sabotaging Astrid's happiness to maintain her dominance.
 
Volver (2006)
This is such a movie about mothers and daughters, how can I not pick this? When her daughter, Paula, is attacked, Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) fiercely protects her in a way that her mother never did for her. As Raimnuda tries to get her family's life back to normal while running a restaurant, her own mother comes back from the dead to fix their broken relationship.

Byzantium (2012) 
Somewhat similar to Volver, this feature another mother (Gemma Arterton) fiercely trying to protect and save her daughter (Saoirse Ronan). Spending too much time together for long periods of time can cause or reveal cracks in any relationship; in Byzantium, mother and daughter are vampires on the run who have been stuck with each other for a very long time. Their relationship is further strained by the fact the daughter has never been comfortable with what she's become and rejects her mother's means of survival.

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #33: All in the Family Edition: Father-Son Relationships (Biologically Related)




Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is All in the Family Edition - Father-Son Relationships (Biologically Related)

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Every last Thursday for the first nine months of 2015 I'm running the All in the Family Edition and wow did time flew because today is the the second theme for the edition. This week is pretty easy one for me, my picks came easily. Here are three of my favourites:

About Time (2013)
The big misconception about this movie is that it is just a romance/romantic comedy and people probably gave it a miss because of that. Yes there are elements of romance and comedy in it, but it is as the title says it is. It is about time, about valuing it and family. One of the relationships that was focused on is the relationship between Tim and his father. They have a great relationship and it's just one of those that is just so rarely seen on screen. One of the saddest scene in the movie was when Tim and his wife decides to have a third child and we understand what it means for his father so I was pretty much sobbing when Tim and his father went to the beach near the end of the movie.

Billy's father may not approve of Billy's fondness for dancing, but when he realises how good and dedicated Billy is to dance he comes around to supporting him. The goodbye scene is one of the most heartwarming scenes of very masculine characters expressing their love for each other.
Road to Perdition (2002)
This movie is just perfect for today's theme since it has three father-son relation though one is not biologically related so I won't go into that one. The first is the relationship between the mob boss and his foolish reckless son. The other is between the mob's hitman who has been shielding his sons from his life of crime until one of them spies on a hit which leads to disastrous consequences and I'll just leave it at that.

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #29: All in the Family Edition - Married Couples Movies





Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is All in the Family Edition - Married Couples Movies

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Every last Thursday for the first nine months of 2015 I'm running the All in the Family Edition and today is the the first theme for the edition - Married Couples. I don't know about you but I'm finding it hard picking movies for this theme. There are a few films that would have been perfect for this theme but I unfortunately have not seen. Then there are others that I've seen that were potentially great picks until I realised the couples were actually unmarried while some of the other more memorable movies that featured married couples seem to delve more into the dark and toxic side of marriage and many ended up into a lot of lists in the wake of Gone Girl thus I decided to not do a similar kind of list. So what's left for me to pick from then? Well not much, making my list admittedly quite pathetic with only two picks which are not really movies about married couples but both have one that is important to the movie.

I am not an animated movie person, but funnily enough both my picks today are animated, the first being The Incredibles. I really like the interaction between the couple and I just love the whole Parr family as whole. The really are like a "real" family. 

So we only got a short montage of the Carl and his wife in the beginning of the movie but it's one of the most lovely portrayal of a married couple which possibly had you in or on the verge of tears by the end of it.
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 So that's it...my embarrassing short list this week. I'll definitely do better next week. What three movies made your list today?

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