Saturday, November 23, 2019

Movies for the Day, Sunday, November 24, 2019

Today's movies mark Puzzles and Games Week, the Mother Goose Parade, and the birthday of Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

Which of today's movies would you watch?









The Luzhin Defence (2000) is about a
Russian chess master in 1920's Italy who falls
in love.  It pictures chess as a compulsion.
Games and Puzzles Week brackets Thanksgiving
each year.





The Luzhin Defence











Shrek (2001) is a fairy tale
about a troll and others.  This popular
movie won an Oscar as Best Feature
Animation.  See also sequels- Shrek 2
(2004) and Shrek the Third (2007).  The
Mother Goose Parade celebration of
fairy tales in California takes place annually
on the Sunday before Thanksgiving.



Shrek












Lackawanna Blues (2005) is a TV movie about
a young boy growing up in a boarding house
in Lackawanna, New York, in the 1960s against
a backdrop of rythym and blues.  This movie won an
Emmy for Lead Actress, to S. Epatha Merkerson,
born November 28, 1952, and for Casting.  Ruben
Santiago-Hudson was born November 24, 1956.


Lackawanna Blues










































































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