Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-23 (Saturday)

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Sister Act (blu-ray) 1992 musical starring Whoopi Goldberg as a singer
dating a gangster (hey that's Harvey Keitel) who she accidentally
witnesses murdering someone (hey that's Rom from Star Trek: DS9).  She
runs to the police and the police hide her with a group of nuns in San
Francisco headed by Maggie Smith. At first she doesn't fit in, but when
she discovered they have a choir she quickly takes over and brings them
success.  I don't think I've watched this since the early 90s.  It holds
up very well.

This is timeless because it's such a basic plot that even Hollywood
cannot fuck up.

For some reason I was thinking Lilia Skala was in this movie as an elderly
nun but she's not. She was in Flashdance and I can't picture her
character.

The Others (4K disc) - Another squeeze in.  This is a 2001 movie
starring Nicole Kidman as the mother of two young children with a
condition that prevents them from being in sunlight.  She and her newly
hired caretakers try their best to protect the children from the sun,
but they soon discover there are "others" also living in the home who
don't like keeping the curtains closed.  A pre Doctor Who Christopher
Eccleston also pops up as the children's father.  If you've never seen
this movie before it's worth watching, but best to go in knowing as
little about it as possible.

Hey! How did this fit into your Whoopi Goldberg marathon?