Claressa Shields: From Flint to the Olympics
The Fire Inside, directed by Rachel Morrison in her directorial debut and distributed by Amazon MGM Studios, was in theaters last Christmas but I didn’t get a chance to watch it until it was streaming. The movie is based on the true story of boxer Claressa Shields from Flint, Michigan, who at just 17 years old wins an Olympic gold medal in women’s boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. If that wasn’t impressive enough, USA boxing hadn’t won a gold medal since 2004 and women couldn’t compete in the sport before 2012.
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah: “Dear God, Stacy Friedman here. And what the hell?”
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is a Netflix film from Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions based on the 2005 young adult novel of the same name by Fiona Rosenbloom. It’s directed by Sammi Cohen and stars Adam Sandler and his two daughters, Sunny Sandler, who plays the protagonist, 13-year-old Stacy Friedman, and Sadie Sandler, who plays Stacy’s older sister, Ronnie. Before you say Nepo Baby, they really do a great job and are so natural on camera—I guess that happens when you grow up on movie sets.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: How Mutant Mayhem Humanizes the Turtles
We saw the 2014 remake, where the Turtles were re-imagined as these monstrous-sized figures instead of the stealth ninjas they are. That’s why I really loved that the new movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem opened with the Turtles moving through the city of New York like ninjas as they swiped items they needed underground; they were in and out of the scene like a deadbeat dad. When it was announced Seth Rogen was behind a new Turtles, my husband was ecstatic. We love Seth Rogen’s comedies, so we knew this new iteration would be in good hands.
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