Night at the movies with Lance

  The film Lansky is premiering in theaters this weekend.  I would recommend you go see it.  Lansky is about a very flawed Jew named Myre Lansky.  His family was once from Russia but when the came to the US he swore to figure out the rackets around New York city and the surrounding areas to control all gambling.  This film Lansky is played by Harvey Keitel.  This is the performance of the year.  I have never been so mesmerized by one actor then Keitel.  He becomes Lansky and shows what life was like in the past.  There is a author who is helping him write his biography and he meets him for lunch to start his biography.  He promises to publish until Lansky has died.  This begins our story.   Throughout his life, he is a gangster and is very brutal is how he treats his business associates.  But he also tries to keep his family in order, and tries to make the business be successful.  It seemed like the only thing he...

  Hello everyone,  normally I don't write a review right after watching a film but I did this time because it deserves it.  I just have always had a suspicion about the 2Pac and Biggie Wallace murders.  This film just brings out the corruption in the L.A. Police Department.  It just is so captivating on the investigation of the murders and where one man would go to uncover the truth.  The story follows Jack Johnson interviewing Henry Poole to find out information about how Christopher "Biggie" Wallace was killed.  Jack Johnson is played by Forest Whitaker and Henry Poole is played by Johnny Depp.  This film goes into what the police department was like during that time.  It shows all of the corruption of the LAPD and the influence record producer Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. had on the department.   This film reminds me of L.A. confidential and also the Spotlight with  the corruption, and how a newspaper reporter was able to u...

 Hello everyone sorry I have been on a hiatus but I just really needed sometime to find myself and fix what I can in my life.  Alright back to the movies.  The film is called The map of the tiny perfect things and it is online only on Amazon Video.  This film was referred to me by a friend and I can't say enough about it.   This film takes place at a middle America small town like most of us live in but with a boy whose day keeps repeating like the film Groundhog Day with Bill Murray.  But the catch in this film the boy is in High school dealing with all of the high school boy problems.  Then he meets a girl who is having the same thing everyday.  What you might think happens, does then chaos ensues.  This film is a masterpiece!  It is the best Amazon released film since I saw since 8th grade which was also released by Amazon studios also.  It is a much needed art at this current time in history.  It is a much needed film ...

  The Ride is available on Prime Video for your viewing pleasure.   Do you ever get that feeling that you are missing something?  That is how I have been feeling recently.  When I watched "The Ride" once again I started to really remember my childhood and where I am originally from.   The Ride is a film set in Petaluma, CA which is near where I am from in northern California in Clearlake, CA and the surrounding towns in Lake County.  The film is about a young man named John McCord who is taken from his family and sent to juvenile hall at a young age, then is placed in a home for foster care.  John has to battle his demons of his past and also the Aryan brotherhood of his family.   His foster father is played by Ludacris of Fast and the Furious fame and race becomes factor in their relationship.  They have to come to terms that even if they don't look the same, they are family.  It shows how it is so hard to trust someone i...

       Hello everyone I know it has been awhile but I haven't really watched anything I have wanted to review in the past few months but I have come across a few recently.  Last night I just started watching The Queens Gambit on Netflix.  It is an interesting tale of if you have talent and exercise that talent you can do anything.   The story starts with Elizabeth Harmon, an orphaned girl at after the death of her mother, goes to the Muelen orphanage near Lexingtion, Kentucky.  She meets a friend named Jolene and also a janitor that teaches her chess.  This leads to Harmon's chess ability growing since the age of 9.  When she is adopted by a new family she finally get the chance she needs to expound her chess ability.  She travels all over the world competing in chess tournaments.   This script is well written, the visuals are picturesque, and it makes you are there in the 1960s with Harmon during all of her competiti...

Stallone, Van Damme, and Arnold, Sounds like an Expendables movie.  Welcome to Lance at the movies, today we are going to talk about boxing, fighting, and cop buddy movies.  First, we will talk about the best picture winner Rocky.  Now I know most of you have seen Rocky and will tell me Lance why are you reviewing Rocky all of us have seen it?  This is a review to see if the movie stands up in 2020.   It is 1976 and Sylvester Stallone is not a household name.  He writes a script and tells producers he wants to play the role himself, taking a big gamble.  Then it wins Best picture and Best screenplay that year.  This film is filled with the underdog spirit, anything you think you can't do, you can with hard work and a drive and determination to do it, that is the American way.   I remembered all the joy rooting for Rocky when I was a kid and it is still a great film, but the one thing I did notice was the boxing.  The still of h...

   I don't own the rights to these images.  They are used as fair use.  Hello everyone this is Lance at the Movies blog.  I was referred this film by a friend this morning and thought I would check it out.  I thought it would be a preachy, intrusive, judgemental film like I had seen in the past.  But I was wrong it is a different kind of film then I normally review.   But it is an important film for anyone who has family or friends who are gay and wondering how to minster to them.   So many churches have passed judgement on those who maybe gay or transgender but that does not mean we need to.  These individuals are people.  It is so easy to write people off and discard them instead of love them.  It is easy to judge and hate.  But that is not what God wants us to do.  We need to love everyone who is different from us.  We need to see their point of view:  wrong or right.  Love them for who they are...