The Flash Movie Ezra Miller

The Flash Movie

There’s a lot to like about The CW’s The Flash. Speedster Barry Allen is portrayed as an endearingly nerdy science geek, who actually likes being a superhero instead of being grim and brooding. It’s fun, lighthearted entertainment. Yet the show is dogged by one major problem the writers must address: Flash needs to go faster. Much faster.

It’s an unfortunate flaw in what’s otherwise an enjoyable hour of TV, and it happens in every episode. Flash will run pretty fast, but hundreds of miles per hour slower than he should. Other times he’ll walk at normal speed, or even stand completely still while talking to people, instead of running really fast. At his fastest, Flash is not fast enough, and at his slowest, he’s not fast at all.

It’s an odd misstep, because in many other ways the show has hit the ground running (no pun intended). His allies at S.T.A.R. Labs and the Central City Police Department are likable characters with interesting backstories. I expected that Flash’s friends would run super fast, but as of the most recent episode, none of them has run fast even once. At a minimum, they should all be running as fast as the Flash runs now, and the Flash should run eight times as fast.
"...it happens in every episode. Flash will run pretty fast, but hundreds of miles per hour slower than he should."

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All the ingredients for a good show are here, but they’re moving much too slow.
The introduction of classic comic book villains like Captain Cold made me hopeful that viewers would finally get the amazing speed they craved. Here would be a worthy match for the Flash, a supervillain who runs fast enough and is constantly causing sonic booms that explode car windows wherever he goes. Instead, I was disappointed to find out that Captain Cold fires cold beams and is not fast. Not even remotely. What were the writers thinking?
Despite it all, I remain a fan of The Flash, and will keep tuning in each week in case it improves. With a few small fixes, the Flash could become a real speed demon who moves so beautifully fast that the TV screen is entirely red, because he’s fast enough to be everywhere at once. Fingers crossed for next season!
via TV Critic, Jerry Hogan

Family New Movie Releases Review The Drop Box 2015

Family New Movie Releases The Drop Box

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Synopsis new movie releases The Drop Box

The Drop Box is a 77-minute documentary film that is having a very limited (2-3 day) run starting on Wednesday, March 4th in theaters in North America. The story however is so compelling, so completely other than what you’re expecting, that you can’t help but be drawn in. The film that are in Korean with English subtitles.

A Korean pastor has dedicated his life to saving unwanted newborns. By building a "drop box" for babies, he has created a safe way for mothers to give up the children they are unable to raise. Lee Jong-rak, hereafter referred to as Pastor Lee, is the creator of South Korea’s only “baby box” for collecting unwanted infants, a role that was somewhat thrust upon him when an abandoned baby was left at the door of his church, something not uncommon in that culture. The box itself resembles one of the large depository boxes you might see at a bank. The pastor heard of a similar box in central Europe, but after getting no reply from that organization, gave up and built one from scratch. Hundreds of children have come to Pastor Lee in this way, and 15 of them have been formally adopted; he and his wife are their legal parents. There are concerns for the pastor’s health because of years of sleep deprivation caring for babies abandoned in the night, or crying in the facility.
While at least the first half hour of the film is somewhat all about babies, the script changes to look at one of the longer residents, one of the older of the adopted children. And then there is another story dynamic that is introduced closer to the end. All this to say that the film maintains a high level of intensity. As you try to catch the names and positions of people superimposed on the screen while at the same time keeping up with the subtitles, your viewing mirrors the relentless pace that Pastor Lee, his wife and the facility volunteers face every hour of every day. The film can leave you somewhat out of breath.

The filmmaker, Brian Ivie, shared with a Focus audience how his original motives were somewhat selfish. Heread a newspaper story and figured Pastor Lee’s story was a vehicle that would help him accomplish a personal goal of getting into the Sundance Film Festival. Instead, the film changed his life, and that of many of the crew of eleven he took with him to South Korea. His own story is told in a David C. Cook book releasing March 1st, The Drop Box: How 500 Abandoned Babies, an Act of Compassion, and a Movie Changed My Life Forever. This is one of those stories that is meant to leave you challenged, and it does. Some people wholly define what it is to give their all to a cause, and Pastor Lee of South Korea is one of those people.

 

via PaulWinkinson