Short Term 12
Foster The People
Official Website | Trailers & Mo 
R | 96 min

Never really thought much about foster kids, or where foster kids live when foster kids aren’t in foster homes.  Destin Cretton did me AND you a favor, and then some!  He expanded his 2008 short film Short Term 12 (a short term home for… foster kids!) into a 2013 feature length gem, loaded with beautiful performances by anyone who appears on-screen.  Mucho mucho love goes out to Brie Larson, who finally gets to show off her stuff, when all she’s really shown before in past work is how adorable she is.  Well, she’s still super adorable here, but she does a lot less smiling, cause there’s not a lot to smile about.  As the supervisor for a bunch of at-risk foster kids (standout work by Kaitlyn Dever and newcomer Keith Stanfield), she’s trying her best to keep their hopes up, when there’s not really much hope to be kept up on.  Helping is her tender boyfriend John Gallagher Jr (the un-hatable Jim Halpert guy from Newsroom), and the two know what they’re doing, being products of dysfunctional and foster childhoods themselves, and if they can make something of themselves, then dangit, they’ll make something of these foster kids.  And dangit, you should see this.  And dangit, Brie Larson is such a cutie-pie McGee.  And dangit, why aren’t I Mr Brie Larson?  DANGIT!!!!

Verdictgo: Breast In Show

Term is endeared today in NY & LA and elsewhere elsewhen

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

McDonald’s Storefronts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

via

The Most Unusual McDonald’s Locations in the World

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my personal fav is the St Louis riverboat one

 which sadly closed in 2000

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McDonald’s Storefronts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stories We Tell
In The Name of The Mother
Official Website | Trailers & Mo 
PG-13 | 108 min

Sarah Polley is awesomes.  She’s an actress, and also a director.  She directed my 5th favorite movie of 2007 – Away From Her!  That movie was about holding onto to loved ones before they are taken from us, both mentally and physically.  Her latest movie – Stories We Tell – is kinda a movie, but more like a documentary, but not exactly a documentary, and it’s about holding onto loved ones who have been taken from us, only physically, but not mentally.  The person gone is her most beloved & wild mother Diane Polley.  She’s been dead for 23 years and apparently left behind a lot of stories to tell, so Sarah approached all who loved her to tell her story cause her mom can’t tell her own story.  The stories end up being BEYOND revealing, and as the tangled web that is Diane Polley slowly untangles, not only will Sarah’s perception of her mom change, but the perception of herself too.  And shiz is CRAY CRAYYYY.  It’s not fair to say how or why or what or who (or when?), but it’s fair to say that if you skip this film, you’re skipping one of the year’s best.  A true revelation, naked and bare, for all to see and share.  Do Tell

Verdictgo: Breast In Show

Stories are still tolds in very limited release, and soon on discs & streaming

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

Peace The Forks Out

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Gotz Shorty

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Karen Black and her scary face

a gourmet of singing

that 70s ho, who had the scariest mug shots evers

The Devil’s Advocate

last of the OG Ape helmers

leader of the Kang

one of the last of the Munchkins

he freed willy

that guy!  who voiced Scarecrow!

ART DONOVAN!!!!!!

the Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque

cult leader

Kangarooer

Jettisoned Jackson

Charlatans drummer

some cowboy

ex-Mrs Cleese

Mc grouper

Real World lover

western comic stripper

gymtastic

THE BOAT FROM THE LOVE BOAT!!

now I know this meme – Datamoshing!!