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Just when you think your life or family isn't Ozzie and Harriett, seeing celebrities as humans rather than entertainers was actually a service. Showing how these family histories transcend everyone. It was done tastefully and openly. No one is shown in a bad light. Its shows humans and how we can all relate to humans, whether famous or not.

Life isnt sterile and this show does a good job of reminding people that famous people are people too! It also helps provide service to be aware of mental health issues we could all face. No family is immune from mental health issues. We can all relate at some level.

This is NOT a reality show. This is REALITY.

Just went to the movies and saw the Emily Blunt vehicle Mary Poppins returns. I know the significant other did not go to see the music and dance, and I will not rate this film based on story line or acting, I have to approach this film differently if I am to review it. First, the last Disney movie I ever saw was probably Mary Poppins when it first came out in 1964. My friends shudder when I tell them I dont know what Toy Story was about or even what the lion king was. To say I never had kids is not a valid excuse I know, but there has been no drive to see Childrens Films on purpose. My only exceptions have been Nightmare before Christmas and my yearly fix of Rudolph on TV. My husband wanted to see Emily Blunt, so there we were.... If I was to rate the film I would do so on cinematography, continuity and all the things that would bore children. So for the boring things that kids just dont care about, I would give the movie 7 out of 10 stars. For everything else, "artsy" I would give a solid 7 out of 10. The acting was fine, and song and dance were well done given so much of that is post dubbed in production. Dance was handled well and edited great. The leads are old enough to be our children, so they seemed real young, The kids in the theater behind us really liked it. And watching it, I realized that if I was a 1960s person taking psychedelics, the art/film aspect was pretty fanciful. Take your Grandkids or Great Grandkids. Good flick, but give them the concept by showing them the original first, so when you see the cameos by the original actors in the film it is a pretty good flick.

Just finished seeing "They Shall Not Grow Old" Peter Jacksons Documentary vehicle, using archived footage and recordings of Veterans interviews from England's war corespondent archives and documentaries.

Along with recorded interviews during the 1960s and 70s of survivors of the "Great War" was the technical restoration of the film, there was a post show of 30 minutes showing "how they did it" with creating a sound effects with modern people and equipment. The film was painstakingly colorized with detail to the real colors not what Hollywood would have used to just entertain the masses, trips to actual venues and having actual fabrics and colors of skin, were used. 3D was added to bring the film to life as 100 year old film would not be expected to do.

The film was not a film of talkies but of silent hand cranked film, so sound was created and lip readers were brought in to re-enact the voices of those seen moving their lips in film. Film speed had to be slowed from the hand cranked methods, files of old paper work with the war details were found and the peripheral history was also noted, on what happened to the average soldier after the war. The whole story from those enlisted, trained and then sent home, start to finish. And documenting the horrible losses as well as the dark ages of the human condition in terms of germs, hygiene etc.

The movie started with a promotion to help increase awareness to the U.S. audience about the drive and fundraising to open a World War 1 monument in Washington and at the end Peter Jackson re-iterated the need for youth to talk to relatives who had lived either during the war or had relatives themselves in that war or successive wars.

End result, this was an amazing documentary, that sadly would be lost on young people who would think it was fabricated or was sadly not real, because they are so removed from a war that happened 100 years ago, yet for us older people we know 100 years is nothing but a spit in time. Youth will sadly be doomed to repeat everything given their distance to history that should not be forgotten.

I give this documentary 9 out of 10 for technical and 10 out of 10 for holding the attention of people that have such short attention spans for documentaries.