Reviews written by Sue Penny

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December 12, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
2.8
Entertainment Factor
 
3.0
Story
 
3.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
2.0
Sound Track
 
2.0
A Simple Romantic Comedy

 A Rainy Day In New York  is a simple romantic comedy written by Woody Allen, and is about Gatsby Welles, played by Timothée Chalamet , a Yardley College student.  When Gatsby learns that his girlfriend, Ashleigh Enright, played by Elle Fanning, is planning to travel to Manhattan to interview...

December 10, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.6
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
A Sweet Family Movie

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial is a sweet science fiction film, that I saw with my children when they were both under 10 years of age and I left the theatre crying.  I recently watched it with my 9 year old granddaughters and, yes, again I found myself crying at the...

December 08, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.6
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
4.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
An Unusual Romantic Comedy

    No Hard Feelings is an unusual romantic comedy that takes place in an affluent town in Long Island, during a hot summer.  Maddie Parker, played by Jennifer Lawrence, is a struggling young woman who is having financial difficulties and is struggling to keep payments on her...

December 07, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.8
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
5.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Movies
A Romantic Thriller That Never Grows Old

  Even after so many years, Witness is still a wonderful crime thriller and a must see.  With each viewing, and I have seen this movie maybe a dozen times, there is at least one scene, or subtlety or just something that catches my attention; something that I...

December 06, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.6
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Movies
An Intense Historical Drama

Oppenheimer is the true story of J Robert Oppenheimer, played amazingly by Cillian Murphy, who became known as "the father of the atomic bomb".  This 3 hour long biographical drama follows Oppenheimer's life, from a young age, when he is appointed to head the Manhattan Project.   The story tracks...

December 05, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.4
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
3.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
Movies
An Inspiring Feel Good Movie

 Goal is the inspiring story about a soccer player, Santiago Munez, played by Kuno Becker, who gives up everything he knows to live his dream.  Santiago is a Mexican illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles who plays football for his local team but works as a gardener with his...

December 01, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
2.4
Entertainment Factor
 
3.0
Story
 
2.0
Actors Performance
 
3.0
Cinematography
 
2.0
Sound Track
 
2.0
Movies
Bad Santa - The Title Fits The Movie

Since the holiday season has started, and I had time during the long Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to catch up on Christmas themed movies that I had never seen or not seen in quite some time.  Bad Santa, however, was just that.....BAD!  The story is not what you would...

November 28, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.6
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
3.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
A Romantic Drama Worth Seeing

  Beautiful Disaster is a romantic comedy involving two characters who are complete opposites.  Abby Abenathy, played by  Virginia Gardner, is a college freshman who decides that she wants to start college fresh - get good grades by focusing on her studies and leave her past behind.  She...

November 27, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.6
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Movies
A Werewolf Movie Like No Other

  Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson, is the unusual story about a top level, but aging, tired looking news editor, Will Randall, who is bitten by a wolf on a country road in Vermont after hitting it with his car and then trying to help it.   He...

November 25, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.4
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
3.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
Movies
A Long Series of Battles

As one can figure out from the title, Napoleon is an historical epic about the life of The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Joaquin Phoenix.  The film takes us into Napoleons life, his rise to power, his military conquests and his difficult relationship with Josephine, his wife, played...

November 24, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.0
Entertainment Factor
 
3.0
Story
 
3.0
Actors Performance
 
3.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
Movies
lIs This Life At 40 ?

 Seeking a light, uplifting comedy, I agreed to see This Is 40, although I wasn't thrilled with the title but felt that maybe the movie would be one that I would enjoy.  The movie starts Paul Rudd as Pete, who after many years of marriage is the only male...

November 23, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.4
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
4.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Movies
A Wonderful, Funny and Romantic Fantasy

Normally, I do not like fantasy films, as they are usually silly and unbelievable.  This changed when I saw Splash.   Not that this story is believable, but it is almost...almost there.  In this story, Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a...

November 22, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.6
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Agent 007 Returns Better Than Ever

From Russia With Love is the second James Bond movie, starring Sean Connery, and it is packed with action and intrigue and keeps us at the edge of our seats.  In this film,   international criminal organization SPECTRE wants revenge against agent James Bond for the death of their agent...

November 21, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.2
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
Movies
Inspiring True Story About An Ordinary Man

  Movie Overview | Milk (2008) Milk is the true story about the life of the gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk.  Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.  The movie opens with Harvey Milk, played to...

November 20, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.6
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Movies
Meet Bond - James Bond

The first of the James Bond series, Bond, aka Agent 007, played by Sean Connery,  is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American space launch...

November 19, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.6
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Funny Spoof On Horror Movies With A Great Cast

   Young Frankenstein, a Mel Brooks film,  is a hilarious spoof on horror movies with a perfect cast  Respected researcher and physician, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, played by Gene Wilder, is the grandson of the more famous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who did experiments on bringing back the dead.  He...

November 17, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.8
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
4.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
Movies
An Unusual Plot In This Interesting Thriller

    The movie Play Dead is about a criminology student, Chloe,  played by  Bailee Madison , who fakes her own death so that she can break into a morgue in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime....a crime that...

November 16, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.2
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
4.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Movies
Complicated Movie Theme Performed To Perfection

  The movie, The Homesman, takes place in the mid-west in the 1850s when a 30ish, unmarried teacher, Mary Bee Cuddy, played by Hilary Swank,  comes from New York to the Mid-west looking for opportunities.  Cuddy owns property and is financially secure and outwardly seems to be ...

November 14, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.4
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
3.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
A Perfect Getaway Is Far From Perfect

  A Perfect Getaway was a thriller that I thought I would really enjoy, as I love this genre of movie, however I found it to be too  contrived, a thriller with an attempt to be funny and a little too gory and felt that this was a mindless...

November 13, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.6
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
4.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
A Mystery/Comedy With A Good Cast

 Daniel Craig, once again, plays Benoit Blanc, in Glass Onion,  a sequel to Knives Out.  Craig's is hilarious as a world-famous detective, and with the supporting staff, including  Edward Norton, as Myles Bron, Dave Bautista, as Duke, Kate Hudson, as Birdie, and Kathryn Hahn, as Claire, who support the twisted...

November 12, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
3.8
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
4.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
A Perfect Movie for The Holiday Season

  Just when families are planning their vacations to their relatives for the holidays is the perfect time to watch Christmas Vacation.  A family comedy, again starring Chevy Chase, as Clark Griswald, and Beverly D'Angelo, as Ellen Griswald, is a go-to movie for the holidays and each time...

November 10, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.0
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
Sim[le, Delightful Movie

Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris is a simple, delightful movie starring  Leslie Manville who is a widowed cleaning lady, Ada Harris, living in 1950's London.   Her fantasy is to own a Christian Dior gown.  She is actually in no position to buy one but is intent on owning...

November 09, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.0
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
4.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
4.0
Sound Track
 
4.0
Just In Time For Christmas....And It Is!

Just In Time For Christmas is a light comedy that can be seen by the whole family and....now is the time to watch it.  A sweet story of a psychology professor, Lindsay Rogers, played by  Eloise Mumford, has a difficult decision to make. She is offered a dream job...

November 08, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
2.8
Entertainment Factor
 
3.0
Story
 
3.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
2.0
Sound Track
 
2.0
Movies
Hate the Title.....Movie not for anyone over 21

When I saw the title of the movie, I formed an opinion and never intended to actually see it.  When out with friends and looking for something to do on a dreary day, this was the only movie available during our time restrictions, so I agreed to see it. ...

November 06, 2024 (Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
4.0
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
3.0
Sound Track
 
3.0
Movies
Funny and Light Comedy

Thelma is a comedy about a 93 year old grandmother, Thelma, played by  June Squibb, who is scammed out of her money and decides to do something about it.   Thelma has a special relationship with her grandson Daniel, played by Fred Hechinger, and we meet him when he is...

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