My Current Interest

           I’m really not sure how I came across Pride .   I don’t know if it was from the Milwaukee Film Festival catalog.   Or it could have been a recommended film on Netflix.   Maybe it was a preview in the front of another film.   As much as I like to know how I found something, in the end, does it really matter?   Probably not.   What matters is whether or not I think this is a good film.   I do.                 It’s 1984 and the miners of Great Britain are on strike.   They have been on strike for months, with no end in sight.   To help the cause, a man by the name of Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) decides to form a group that will collect money for the miners.   The group is called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.   They are a group of gay men and a woman who figure out ways to collect money that will then be given to the miners, as they have been without pay for so long.                 While it seems giving the money they have collected away would be an easy thing t

Image provided by Kensington Books.         Okay, really?   What is with parents and pushing their children to get married?   Aiden’s mother is practically shoving him into marriage with Bailey even though they haven’t had their first official date, yet.   His mother, Juliet, is so bad, she’s already running around town planning their wedding.   This includes the wedding date.   If Bailey wasn’t the type of person she was, Juliet just might end up being the next murder victim.                It has been an exciting six weeks for chocolatier Bailey King .   She has been in New York City filming her new cooking show about how to make Amish candy.   As much fun as it was to be back in the city, Bailey is ready to go home.   She has missed her new home of Harvest, Ohio; especially her grandmother; the family’s Amish candy shop; and her boyfriend, Sheriff Deputy Aiden Brody.         Life gets off running for Bailey the moment she arrives in Ohio.   Actually, it was the night befo

           When I first saw the commercials for Book Club , I wasn’t sure what to think.   It looked like the movie could either be really funny, or really bad.   When I finally saw it, funny was the answer.                   It’s been years since four friends started their monthly book club as young women.   Now older, the women have gone through many different life events and stuck together through it all.                   Vivian (Jane Fonda) never married.   She owns her own hotel and moves from man to man.                 Sharon (Candice Bergen) is a judge, divorced, and has a son who has become newly engaged.                 Carol ( Mary Steenburgen ) is happily married to Bruce (Craig T. Nelson), who is retired.   Or at least that is how it appears to those on the outside.                  Diane (Diane Keaton) is a widow.   Now that she lives alone, her daughters are convinced she cannot take care of herself, and want their mother to move closer to them.