Your Weekend Movie Guide for November 2017

Holy crap!  Is this movie already 50 years old???   "The Jungle Book" was one of the last movies Walt Disney actually supervised and brings us back to the day when the holiday season always meant one or two new releases for Buena Vista.  This one was obviously a big deal given the televised premiere with big stars in attendance.

Ah, Hollywood the way it ought to be.   Gee, I wonder how special the releases will be this Thanksgiving.  You know the drill, folks.  I'll scour the entertainment pages of the LA Times and give you my knee jerk reaction to the crap being dumped on our cinema doorsteps.

Indeed, the meat on your Thanksgiving table might not be the only turkey you experience this month.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri:   Blog review coming.   Spoiler alert:  Recommended.

Mudbound:   The title alone is a turn off.

Wait For Your Laugh:  Documentary about the legendary Rose Marie.  I am actually going to see it tomorrow night.

Novitiate:   Fun and games in a convent.   That's a joke.

A Fantastic Woman:  From Chile.  That's all I got.

Murder on the Orient Express:   Blog review coming.  Major derailment.

Thor - Ragnarok:  I am so far behind when it comes to super heroes.

Lady Bird:  Reviewed here the other day.   Go see it so you won't be left out on Oscar night.

Last Flag Flying:  The annual "Steve Carell desperately wants an Oscar" film.

Victoria and Abdul:   I heard this actually will start a coma.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer:   Bambi's mother again?

The Square:  Me in high school?

The Florida Project:  If it's about them seceding from the nation, I'll see it.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected):   Don't waste your money.   It's on Netflix.   On second thought, don't waste your time there.

A Bad Moms Christmas:  Better known as the Joan Crawford Christmas Special.

Daddy's Home 2:  Time to call Social Services.

Blade of the Mortal:   Sounds Kung fu-ey to me.

Jigsaw:  Puzzle.  Is this Password?

Tyler Perry's Boo 2:   The streak is alive.  I still have not seen a Tyler Perry movie.

LBJ:  Rob Reiner makes the President rather uninteresting.   I can't wait to see what he does with Trump.

American Made:  Tom Cruise as a TWA pilot who flew missions for the CIA.  For those of you who remember what TWA was.

Angelica:  Sexual repression in Victorian London.   An oxymoron if I ever heard one.

Almost Friends:  A twentysomething slacker hits on a local barista.  You might need that extra shot of espresso.

Attack of the Killer Donuts:   My money is on glazed.

Cook Off:  A mock documentary about a cooking competition.   This is the type of movie Christopher Guest would soar with.   Unfortunately, he's not involved.

I Love You, Daddy:  Louis CK's vanity project, so see it before the authorities embargo it.

Justice League:  Batman and Wonder Woman team up.   Ben Affleck is Batman.  Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman.  Len is At Home.

Roman J Israel, Esq:  Denzel Washington's yearly scenery gluttony.   And, by the way, he's my next guess for Hollywood Sexual Predator.

Wonder:  A fifth grader is mainstreamed in school.   Julia Roberts stars.   I hear this is a five Kleenex movie.

The Star:  It's a little donkey's first Christmas.   This is a cartoon, not a documentary about the President lighting the White House Christmas tree.

Destined:  Something about living in a parallel universe.   I want the one where movies like this are not playing.

Mr. Roosevelt:  This is a trick.   It has nothing to do with the President.

Geostorm:  70 percent chance of sleeping in the theater.

Dinner last night:  Lasagna.