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Always been a "Wizard of Oz" fan and I read and saw the "Wicked" play and saw the first film so you're right I returned to see the conclusion and final chapter "Wicked: For Good". And the film was entertaining and energy filled with music and again it's a journey of love, friendship, doubt, and trust! This time Elphaba(a fine performance from Cynthia) is well established as the wicked witch of the west, and she still is against the grain and challenges and questions the wizard. Still in conflict and dealing with her differences with Glinda(Ariana Grande) the good witch. Only things change with drama and accidents! As a house is dropped in Oz with a girl named Dorothy! Overall the production, design, and sets once again make it a tribute and a super great motion picture, really this was a fitting way to end this franchise!

Every once and awhile a film comes out and along that makes a statement while pushing it's themes and points to the max. With this drama "Die My Love" it certainly does just that in a most aggressive and crazy like way, as the central character seems to be trapped in an endless nightmare never reaching the end only to see clearly once the rain is gone. Set in rural Montana it involves a mid to late 30's couple Grace(Lawrence) and Jackson(Robert Pattinson) who love one another and they are very intimate and bold and raw with one another, and by making a child, things change for Grace in many forms as her life goes into madness. Along the way a good supporting turn is given from veteran Sissy Spacek. However the scenes and blunt provocative images lead the way in this film, as Grace sees her life is motivated by anger, sexual frustration, doubt, chance, and freedom. Jennifer gives a sexy turn in this film as she shows plenty of skin and has nude scenes(even with some nipple shots!) Grace is a sexy multi colored bra wearing woman(love the scenes of her sporting the multi colored bra, and the pink/purple panties plus her scene of her wearing the sexy silk green colored bra before she dives into the pool is most enjoyable, as Jennifer really rocked in this film!) Thru it all with the sex, drama, and friends and family it proves that love finds it's way thru the darkness! Overall may not be everyone's cup of tea, yet I felt this was an excellent drama of a mid to late 30's woman who discovered and found herself thru struggles, with good and bad and positives and negatives. Really Jennifer should be considered for some award nominations with this work.

If you watch or know anything about the movies of Yorgos Lanthimos you know they are hard to understand and complex often going off the track. And with this entry "Bugonia" it's much the same as it clearly was hard to understand and get a call and take on. Set in the modern world led by two determined answer seekers(one played to form by Jesse Plemons) they believe a high powered CEO named Michelle(Emma Stone who's a Mrs. Obama want to be!) really could be an alien! So they kidnap her and plot and experiment to prove things, and really this film goes far and widely off track! Memorable is seeing Emma's, Michelle character have her head shaved and she's tied up and gagged as a damsel in distress. Really strange and crazy weird movie watch if you want and see what you get out of it and if you can understand something!