Don't go into seeing #CharmingTheHeartsOfMen (2021) expecting to see #MississippiBurning. It's not even close.

The end of the film was very rushed, and really this was a lengthy character study of the ills of Southern U.S.A. in the early 1960s, from the viewpoints of various single women.

Historical accuracy is not the movie's forte. If #KelseyGrammer is truly playing Howard W. Smith, which is *not* stated, then this is a very suspect 'inspired by true events' tale.

#AnnaFriel is alright, and her character #TinaIvlev's, and #PaulineDyer's are the main foci.

There are a few unresolved plot points, such as the bank man, but then they weren't resolved in reality in the movie's set time period, either. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act was over a decade in the future.

Filmed in #Georgia, it wasn't clear in-universe what part of the South it was supposed to be. Smith represented #Virginia.

This is roughly as passable as #WhereTheCrawdadsSing.

I was just pleasantly surprised by #WhereTheCrawdadsSing (2022), watched to clear it out of the TiVo.

I didn't have high expectations, but they were adequately met. I've seen better movies with the theme of alienation, prejudice, loneliness, and bigotry in the U.S.A., but this one was passable.

It gets points for being a mystery where I didn't see the ending coming an hour beforehand.

The zoölogical themes discussed with the book publisher and by the voiceover seem a little naïve to a #SciFi reader. It's a common trope in Sci-Fi that what one species may develop as a moral code may be completely repugnant or incomprehensible to another, and there's no reason that they should be the same.

And there were a few inconsistencies as to how cut off the girl really was, a mere '5 miles' from the county seat and seemingly meeting people in town and on beaches whenever the plot demanded it.

Interestingly, filmed in #Louisiana rather than in its setting of #NorthCarolina.

#DaisyEdgarJones

Daisy Edgar-Jones to Star in New ‘Sense and Sensibility’ Film Adaptation
#MovieNews #Movies #DaisyEdgarJones #FocusFeatures #JaneAusten #OnSwiftHorses #Twisters #WheretheCrawdadsSing #WorkingTitleFilms

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/daisy-edgar-jones-new-sense-and-sensibility-movie-1236299143/

#NowWatching #FilmMastodon

#WhereTheCrawdadsSing (2022)

A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.

Sally Field, ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Director Olivia Newman Adapting ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ (Exclusive)
#MovieNews #Movies #RemarkablyBrightCreatures #SallyField #WheretheCrawdadsSing

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/remarkably-bright-creatures-movie-1235973970/

I’m on my hollybops in France, there was a huge thunderstorm last night and we were lashed out of it all morning with rain.

When we finally got out of the apartment, we met this happy little fella.

#WhereTheCrawdadsSing

WLUSP STAFF PICKS TO ADD TO YOUR SUMMER READING LIST 

https://communityedition.ca/wlusp-staff-picks-to-add-to-your-summer-reading-list/

#aCertainHunger #aSecondLookBooks #AdrianQuijano #BronteBehling #byGrandCentralStationISatDownAndWept #chelseaGSummers #deliaOwens #donDelillo #elizabethSmart #HarleenKaurDhillon #howToDoNothing #jennyOdell #JessiWood #kurtVonnegut #readingList #SangjunHan #sarahHogle #summerReadingList #tJKlune #theSirensOfTitan #underTheWhisperingDoor #whereTheCrawdadsSing #whiteNoise #youDeserveEachOther