These days, everyone is a critic – and so, as not to spoil my own viewing of this movie (which you may have already seen), I didn’t Google it to see what everyone else had to say about it. A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach. By 1984 Clash was working as an official puppeteer for Sesame Street. Most of all, it made me think – which is something all great documentaries should do. So what’s it all about? A finger? But something stops him; an educated man – with veterinary experience, August assesses, could come in very handy with circus animals. And this story was only just getting started…. By a show of hands: who thinks it’s weird that a guy can make a living sticking his hand up a puppet’s butt? A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s. Alas, this is not the case. As a kid growing up in the 60s, Clash loved watching Disney specials on television and yearned to make puppets. He remembers studying the Cookie Monster puppet, turning it inside out to see how it was sewn and the stitching methods used. You might also recognize a younger Ade as ‘BLT’ from Degrassi Junior  (and High). With Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider. About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca. When Younger allows himself to be caught, it’s up to former Special Ops ‘consultant’ “H” (Jackson) and FBI agent Helen Brody to extract the truth about where he’s hidden the three bombs.”H” and Brody have very different ideas of how this information should be attained. And just as I was about to repeat my famous phrase: “there aren’t any actors from LOST in today’s film”, I stand corrected. Before Unthinkable came 24, another show whose main character, Jack Bauer, often pushed the limits of civil rights vs. the right to use whatever means necessary when faced with the unthinkable (pun intended). Quite the opposite. ( Log Out /  The plot thickened when it came out that Shirley was four months pregnant with Andrew’s child. Watch Water for Elephants. Clash’s first movie was a Jim Henson production starring David Bowie called Labyrinth (available for streaming here on Netflix Canada). Dear Zachary follows the story told by filmmaker Kurt Kuenne about his childhood friend, Andrew Bagby, who was found murdered in a Pennsylvania state park in 2001; shot five times. Such a range of emotion, and the story is woven together beautifully. He is understated and again reminds me of actors of old - Gary Cooper specifically. Such a range of emotion, and the story is woven together beautifully. It won many film festival awards and even had a condensed version broadcast on CBC. Is "Water for Elephants" based on a book. ( Log Out /  I loved this documentary; I think you will too. A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. mel47. Written by I can’t remember a movie with Samuel L. Jackson that I DIDN’T like – and that trend continues today with Unthinkable, an intense film overflowing with passion, desperation, and patriotism. On the surface, this is a movie about a travelling circus going through The Great Depression. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. I wish that my friend Dr. Andrew Bagby was alive and well and that I was blissfully ignorant of the lessons I’ve learned along this journey. Who, where, and why are you running away? When bad things happen, good people have to take what they’ve learned and make the world a better place, and that is precisely what I hope this film will do – make the world a better place.”. After the first 5 minutes of Water for Elephants, I was hooked. Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a travelling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster's wife. ( Log Out /  P.S. Events lead him to joining the circus as their vet, working under their unstable boss August whose violent tendencies give everyone reason to be cautious around him, including his beautiful and quiet wife Marlena, whom August is very possessive of and who Jacob finds himself soon falling in love with.