It Ends With Us Movie Review

 Hey my lovely Chameleons. In today's blog I am going to be doing a Movie Review of the new movie, It Ends With US, that came out on August 9, 2024. It Ends With Us is based on the book with the same name by Colleen Hoover. 

Before I go on with this review, this blog might be a little long just cause I want to talk about Colleen a little and the drama that came with the release of the movie along with how I heard about Colleen, how I read the books, and my feelings on the movie. 

On August 9, 2024 It Ends With Us hit theatres. It Ends With Us is baed on a book by Colleen Hoover. If you have not seen the movie or read the books, here is what they are about; Lilly overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lilly begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship.

The Cast:

Blake Lively as Lilly Bloom

Justin Baldoni as Ryle Kincaid  (director) 

Jenny Slate as  Allysa 

Hasan Minhaj as Marshall

Brandon Sklenar as Atlas Corrigan

Kevin McKkid as Andrew Bloom

Amy Morton as Jenny Bloom

Alex Neustaedter as Younger Atlas

Isabela Ferrer as Younger LillyBloom

How I first heard about Colleen Hoover was from BookTube (YouTubers talking about books) and hearing that a lot of people don't like her and that her books are laced as "Romance" the they are not. So I didn't know if I wanted to try them. Bt actually after hearing about her book November 9th I wanted to check it out. Then for my 31st birthday Natalie gave me It Ends With Us and the second one It Ens With Us by Colleen Hoover. I wanted to try them. Somehow I came across that there was a book to movie of It Ends With Us coming out in July. I wanted to read the book quick. Then I see that it was coming out August 9, 2024. I had time to read it. That was actually gonna be a big weekend for me. Meeting Shania Scichilone on the 10th and seeing Avril Lavigne on the 12th. Plus I thought since Natalie gave me the books, she come se the movie with me. On August 7, 2024 I was reading the It Ends With Us and wanted to look something up about the movie and I saw that the movie was playing the next day by me. I didn't know what to do. To make this blog a little shorter, I decided to wait when I was with Natalie to see the movie. On August 10, 2024 while driving to Toronto to meet Shania Scichilone Natalie thought us 3 can go see the movie when Brad was at his party at 6:20pm that night. I loved the movie. It was rally accurate to the book. Except after Allysa had her baby that is when some of the movie got mixed up from the book. I mean, if you read the book, some of the things in the movie that happened before Allysa had her baby and in the movie they happened after Allysa had her baby. But that is alright. The movie was in my Top 5. That is how much I loved it. And my favourite scene, the Onesies scenes were in the movie.

Now, I will talk about the drama. The day after, on August 11, 2024 I saw that the cast and crew had drama. During promotion of the movie, It was pretty much Lilly (Lively) & Atlas (Sklenar) were doing interviews together, and when the cast did interviews all together, Ryle (Baldoni & Director) was never with them. Also when Baldoni did interviews by himself, he would talk about the meaning behind the movie and I heard that the rest of the cast is making it more like a RomCom. Again, this is what I am hearing and reading. Plus, the cast is following each other, but not following Justin Baldoni. Not even Colleen Hoover, but he is following everyone. Here is something I don't like. I know why they relate 2 movies a week or 2 after each other for competitive, but I don't like that husbands movie and wife's movie are the 2 movies. Ryan Reynolds is in Deadpool & Wolverine and Blake Lively is in It Ends With Us and the last movie I saw before this movie was Deadpool & Wolverine. I feel like both of them are gonna be the biggest movies of 2024. Why put Ryan & Blake compete against each other? I also heard that Ryan works on every project Blake does. The rooftop scene in the movie is written by Ryan. As much as Justin Bladoni looks a lot like Joe Jonas to me, and I don't like the Jonas Brothers at all, I agree with him on the meaning of the movie. But like I said, this movie is in my Top 5. Justin Bladoni also directed the movie Clouds & 5 Feet Apart. Clouds is one of my favourites.

My top5 movies are; Simon Birch, Love Simon, No Hard Feelings, & It Ends With Us. Clouds is in my top 10 favourite movies 

Meeting Shania Scichilone

 Hey my lovely Chameleons. In today's blog I am going to talk about Meeting Shania Scichilone on August 10, 2024. Here is the whole story. First for anyone who doesn't know Shania, let me tell you.

Shania  Fillmore (Fillmore is her maiden name) was on a show on YVT called The Next Star back in season in 2011. She was my favourite one. Since 2011 we been talking on Facebook and became internet friends. We only Skype once in 2014 and just continue talking on Facebook (Now we switch back and forward from Facebook & Instagram lol).

On March 25, 2024 I was watching people play darts at dart league cause my team & I were done and we were just drinking, talking and watching people. I decided to go on Instagram, cause I had some power on my phone lol. I saw that Shania announce another book signing in Toronto. I quickly messaged Natalie to let her know and see if we can go. Just cause we were seeing Avril Lavigne & Simple Plan on Monday August 12, 2024. She said yes we can. The next day when I bought the tickets, cause my phone died. I wanted it to be a surprise to Shania that I was coming, but I needed her help to buy tickets (you needed to order them off there website, it's not like buying tickets to a play, concert, or movie). On June 22, 2024 that is when I finally got emailed the receipt. I am glad that I didn't right.

On August 10, 2024, I am just gonna skip to the Ignite Your Soul Author Event. After all 4 of us got signed in the our lanyards (Natalie's 2 younger kids Josie & Bradley came too). I went right in and Josie followed. Nalie found us at Shania's panel. Brad found jollyranchers and then us lol. Before Natalie & Brad found us, I just stood off to the side with Josie, so Shania can finish talking to the others. My heart was beating so loud. After they were done she saw me and gave me a hug, and then gave Josie a hug. When Natalie & Brad did catch us we all ended up talking. Josie got her books signed. Then probably 5 minutes later I got my books signed. After me telling Shania maybe, 50 times that we are gonna walk around and come back, we finally did that LOL. 

While Josie & I walked around I bought a book by Shama Gray called The Nashville Bet and then got free books. Josie & I grabbed a lot of stickers and bookmarks. After we walked around the whole thing we made it back to Shania.

When we finally left the book signing we stopped at a mall so Natalie can charge the car. We all had Sushi for a late lunch, we dropped Brad off at his party, and then Natalie Josie, and myself went to go see It Ends With Us at the movies. I will be having a Movie Review up tomorrow about that movie.

It was a big and busy day.

Junebug Movie Review

 Hey my lovely Chameleons. In today's blog I am going to ACTUALLY do a Movie Review on a new movie which just came out on August 3, 2024. Hallmark came out with a new movie, called, Junebug on August 3, 2024. I do want to do a Movie Review on Emma Roberts new movie, Space Cadet, which came out on July 4, 2024. But, let's focus on Junebug on this blog.

On August 3, 2024 Hallmark came out with a new movie called, Junebug. What Junebug is about, is; Juniper, a book editor turning 40 is magically reconnected with an eight-year-old version of herself who questions her life choices, including her dream of writing her own stories. Here is the movie cover and the cast.

The Cast

Autumn Reeser as Juniper 

Aaron O'Connell as Alex

Mila Jones as Junebug

Donia Kash as Mikah

Lauren K Robek as Paula

Cheyenne Rouleau as Kate

Chenier Hundal as Ethan

Stellina Rusich as Mae

John Murphy as Tom

Bernie Yao as Rob

On July 23, 2024 I was online trying to find a list of all Hallmark movies for an idea I want to do. Then I saw that it said. Junebug on August 3, 2024. Looking at the title I wanted to check out the movie. On July 28, 2024 I was watching A Word Record Christmas. Yes, I love Christmas, but I am that person who doesn't watch anything Christmas until November. It was based on True Events. Anyway, back to Junebug. What I been saying is that during a commercial break from A World Record Christmas I saw the trailer for Junebug. I just pointed at the TV and said to myself "I remember seeing that on the computer. That made me want to watch it. On August 3, 2024 I was playing fetch with Dodge and then I remember that the movie Junebug was on at 8pm. I watched it, until Dodge wanted out and play more fetch lol. I missed a bit of the movie.. But the movie was cute. I also enjoyed that the romance was not the big part, like in most Hallmark movies. But anyway, this movie was cute and I really enjoyed it.

Arthur The King Movie Review

 Hey my lovely Chameleons. In today's blog I am going to do another over due movie review that is in my favourite movie genre. True Stories. I eat True Stories up. I love them. Yes, there are a few that I don't like. This True Story Movie Review is on Arthur The King. Arthur The King came out to the movies on March 15, 2024.

Arthur The King hit theatres on March 15, 2024 and this movie is about; A true story of an adventure racer  adopts a stray dog named Arthur to join him an epic endurance race. Here is the movie cover and the cast.

The Cast

Mark Wahlberg as Michael Light

Ukai as Arthur

Simu Liu as Leo

Juliet Rylance as Helen

Nathalie Emmanuel as Olivia

Ali Suliman as Chik

Bear Grylls as Himself

Paul Guilfoyle as Charlie

Rob Collins as Decker

On January 17, 2024 I was on Instagram and I came across a post from Mark Wahlberg and Arthur The King movie's Instagram shared post about the movie. I decided to look up the movie and I saw that I'd based on a True Story. And I noticed that Arthur looks like Dodge. My 3 favourite things in one movie; Mark Wahlberg, a dog who looks like Dog, and it's based on a True Story. On March 15, 2024 I was looking on the cineplex website and nothing. Every day I was looking to see if it was out in Canada. On April 24, 2024 I decided to just look foe the movie on a streaming site. I found it. I bawled my eyes out and liked the movie, but I didn't feel like Arthur The King was Top Tier for me. But I did really enjoy it.

Barbie Movie Review

 Hey my lovely Chameleons. In today's blog I am going to be telling my review on the Barbie movie, which came out last year on July 21, 2023. I swear that I thought I did this blog, but I didn't. Yes, my opinion is open about this movie, but I decided to write (or rewrite) this on my blog. 

On July 21, 2023 the live action Barbie movie hit theatres. This is what Barbie is about; Barbie & Ken are having the time of their lives in the coulorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans. Before I go on with the movie cover and the cast, I want to say, since they're so many Barbie & Ken's in the movie, I am just going to say the main Barbie & Ken. Then the other cast with different names.

The Cast

Margot Robbie as Barbie

Ryan Gosling as Ken

Kate McKinnon as Weird Barbie

Emerald Fennell as Midge

Michael Cera as Allan

America Ferrera as Gloria

Arianna Greenblatt as Sasha

Rhea Perlman as Ruth

Helen Mirren as Narrator 

Will Ferrell as Mattel CEO

Other Barbies

Issa Rae

Alexandra Shipp

Emma Mackey

Sharon Rooney

Hari Nef

Anna Cruz Kayne 

Ritu Arya 

Dua Lipa

Nicola Coughlan

Other Kens

Simu Liu

Kingsley Ben-Adir

Ncuti Gatwa

Scott Evans

John Cena

On July 21, 2023 I ended up seeing Barbie with Natalie and her 2 younger kids. I was excited, but I also felt like I wouldn't like it. We went to the Drive-in Movies, but I almost fell asleep. I was in POP (help you find a job workshop). I was waking up at 5:45am to walk Dodge and get ready and be there for 8:45am. I didn't make up my mind yet. I decided that I needed to see it again. So on July 27, 2023, I bought my movie ticket to see Barbie again on August 1, 2023. On July 31, I remembered that I was going to see Barbie the next day. On August 1st, I went on the bus, god my food and drink, and found my seat. I was bored. I stayed, came I thought it would get better. It was the worst movie ever. And yet it made ver a million dollars. The only good thing in the movie was Ryan Gosling's song, I'm Just Ken.

Speaking of Ryan Gosling (who I love and is a Canadian) I have been seeing posts on Facebook saying that Ryan should win an Academy Award for Barbie. OH GIVE ME A BREAK!! he was in way better movies. Like The Notebook, Lala Land, and First Man (all the ones I know off the top of my head)

Go watch a better movie.

Despicable Me 4 Movie Review

 Hey my lovely Chameleons. In today's blog I am still catching up on some Movie Reviews I want to do. Now, I will be giving my review on the new animation movie, Despicable Me 4. See a pattern here? I do it for kids that are in my circle. Anyway, Despicable Me 4 came out on July 3, 2024.

Despicable Me 4 is a new animation movie came out of July 3, 2024. Here is what Despicable Me 4 is about; Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member family, Gru Jr, who is intent and tormenting his dad. Gru faces new nemesis in Maxime Le Mel and his girlfriend, Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.

Voice Cast

Steve Carell as Gru

Kristen Wing as Lucy

Pierre Coffin as Minions

Will Ferrell as Maxime  

Miranda Cosgrove as Margo

Joey King as Poppy Prescott

Sofia Vergara as Valentina

Dana Galer as Edith

Madison Skyy Polan as Agnes

Stephen Colbert as Perry Prescott

Chloe Fineman as Patsy Prescott 

On June 2nd after Cindy, Robbie, and I went to go see The Garfield Movie we were talking about the next movie to go see. I told Cindy that Despicable Me 4 is coming out on July 3rd, but if we go see the movie we should go on July 5th. Long story, short, I went to see this movie with Natalie and her younger kids in Buffalo, NY. It was actually a lat minute thing before we went back to Canada. We spent the day in Buffalo, Ny. I thought since I seen the Minion Movie and Gru's movie it be alright. But I don't like Miranda Cosgrove and I never did. I do those like Drake & Josh, ICarly, and ICarly 2.0. I do like Joey King, but I will never watch the show The Act staring Joey King. Anyway, off topic, I thought this movie was too short. Yeah, I know it's for kids. Also I never seen the other 3 Despicable Me movies. cause of Miranda Cosgrove and not being a huge fan of animation movies. This movie was alright.