There should be more movies like “Wild Rose” made, for the millions of young people who aspire to move to Hollywood to be an actor or a famous singer. The odds are very long and what this film shows, is the truth about these long odds. The reality of the luck involved, the disappointments and heartache, the breaks that are needed and might never come. It all amounts to gambling with your entire life. There are the lucky few and the thousands who never make it. It doesn’t matter that you work hard to achieve your dreams or that you may actually be the most talented, like the singer in this movie. What matters is that Rose-Lynn has been the absentee single mother to 2 kids starting at age 18. Her talent will always come in second to her children.

The lead character of Wild Rose,Rose-Lynn is played by Jessie Buckley, who is not only an outstanding actor in this role, but a great singer as well. Her mother Marion, played well by Julie Walters comes to her daughters rescue frequently because of the late nights and drinking that come with her daughters life as a lounge singer.

This movie takes place in Scotland, a very unlikely location for a singer who wants to become a country singer who lives in Nashville. One problem wit this film is because of the very thick Scottish accents, many times it was impossible to fully understand what people were saying.

The message of this movie is a good one. Just because the odds are long and probably impossible does not mean to not try to achieve your dreams.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for Wild Rose are a very high 94% and I agree with this assessment and highly recommend this film.

Neither Kevin Costner or Harrison Ford have ever won an Academy Award for best acting, but just based on these two scenes below, they should have won for best actor for Ford and supporting actor for Costner. In terms of showing real emotion in a movie, it does not get better than these two scenes from “Air Force One”, released in 1997 and Molly’s Game, released in 2017.

The newest addition to the Spiderman franchise, “Spiderman: Far From Home”, I thought was a very solid addition to the series, directly connected to the last Marvel Film, “Avengers Endgame” – where Ironman/Tony Stark dies. The time travel and loss of half of humanity is explained at the start of this film by calling what happened “A blip” in time. As I stated in my review of the Avengers movie, everybody has to suspend all sense of common sense and logic to buy into the time travel idea in Avengers Endgame, where half the worlds population is rescued using time travel.

There is a twist in the story of Far From Home, that I thought was too far fetched to believe that most of the science could be pulled off by the villain in this movie played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Samuel L. Jackson is once again in another Marvel movie, adding to his long record of super hero movie appearances playing the Nick Fury character. Spiderman is once again played well by Tom Holland, in his second appearance in this franchise.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating for this film is a very high 93% and I would rate it at about 80% mainly due to the convoluted story idea. I recommend Spiderman: Far From Home.