February in Review

Favorite: Pride
Least Favorite: The Big Short
Saddest: Bear Story
Funniest: World of Tomorrow
Most Surprising: The Big Short in how much I didn't like it
It's Art, Dad: World of Tomorrow
Missed Connections: Timber the Treasure Dog, Chasing Buddha, West Side Story Sing-Along, and Cinema Paradiso

STATS
Total Movies: Six movies this month; 16 year-to-date. This number doesn't include the Big Sky Docs although we saw the fewest in our nine years in Missoula. Just three: Mavis!, The Witness, and Shorts Block 7
Would a Cost: $96

Recommended Viewing and Reading Outside the Roxy
The Staircase, Sundance Doc Channel
Mavis!, HBO
Spy, HBO
Side Note: This was our first month without Netflix and it wasn't so bad. We'll get it back for Gilmore Girls, don't you worry.

Gold Citrus Fame by Claire Vaye Watkins, and her short stories: Battleborn

Pride

Movie: Pride
When: 7 P.M. Wednesday, February 11
Who With: JL and AMG
Movie Count: 13
Snacks: Popcorn and Cold Smoke

Reaction: People are effing amazing. This movie is full of so much happy making empowerment that you leave the theater ready to take on the world. I had to keep checking that there's not an exclamation point in the title since I kept wanting to give it one. This movie is from 2014 and totally passed me by. The Roxy showed it as part of their "Out at the Roxy" film series celebrating LGBT culture. I definitely walked in thinking it was going to be a documentary. My mistake.

1980s London gays form a group to support striking coal miners in a small town in Wales. There's discomfort on both sides, none so sure about the other, but by meeting, talking, dancing, and drinking, the common ground that was always there blossoms. Hand shakes, bus rides, sleep overs, solidarity, and British tunes.

Recommendation: Let’s Go! | Let it come to you  | Let it pass
Next Up: Maybe Mustang (a contender for Best Foreign out of Turkey) or Timber the Treasure Dog (so local)