While the theatres are still well stocked with the year end award movies, the other choices are few and further between. This one I call a cross between “Twilight”, “Harry Potter”, “The Witches of Eastwick” and maybe even a little of “The Addams Family”.
By the way, when a movie is referred to in that hybrid fashion, it’s not generally a good thing. This is about two star crossed lovers – one a witch, one a “mortal” (yep, they still call us that, right out of the “Bewitched” sitcom). The female teen is the witch, but we soon learn that’s a bit of an insult. They are more correctly called “casters”.
The boy is the one we meet first – Ethan, an incredibly bright sixteen year old who wants nothing more than to get out of
Anyways, girl meets boy after several typical cheerleader snobs harass her and our love story begins. But you have to wait for Jeremy Irons to show up for it to get remotely interesting. He’s her eccentric uncle Macon. He lives in the big mansion, wearing the fashionable outfits and warns her away from her new mortal friend.
But it’s all for her good –you see
Oh, yeah, there are two more women to mention.
And I almost forgot – Viola Davis has the role of Amma, the local librarian who knows all the secrets. That’s about all I got out of her character - sorry.
I think they’re hoping this becomes a “franchise” much the same as the “Twilight” series. Good luck – it clunked at under $10 million for its debut week at the box office. What’s the matter? It has no tension, no humor and it looks a lot like the veteran performers were told to overact and the younger ones, well they mostly can’t act. But much the same was true for “Twilight”. What do know? I give “Beautiful Creatures” a “4”.








I have to say the ads for this movie were pretty funny. I was looking forward to it with the old idea in my head that maybe they crammed all the funny stuff into those ads and the movie as a whole is going to stink. That happens – too often.
The pickings are real slim now, and here's one you probably missed hearing much about, even though it "boasts" a star studded cast.
I’ll tell you about the movie in a moment, but first, a brief John and Ken public service announcement. Don’t see “clown hair's” (Arnold 
Yep – this is the Bin Laden movie all right. Let’s get something clear though right away – it is a fictionalized account, even though there’s a statement up front that it is based on “first hand accounts”. Also, this is not from the NAVY Seal book about the raid that took Osama out. You’ll get a version of that at the end, but this one is mostly about the painstaking 10 year search for the guy.