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Touching, comedic take on foster parenting; journalist’s war At the Movies with
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Christ the King School, 617 Arden Blvd., celebrated its 60th anniversary this year (1958-2018) with a Diamond Jubilee Ball Nov. 16 at the Castaway Burbank. “Parents, families, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members joined us for the event,” said Principal Ruth Anderson. The K-12, 200-pupil school began in 1958 with 116 students in five grades in a church-owned apartment building in what is now the lower schoolyard.
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and Sergei Polunin. Outlaw King (5/10): This a Hollywood telling of Robert the Bruce, who fought the English for Scottish Independence in the 14th century, taking up where William Wallace left off. But accurate it probably is not. It’s unlikely that Robert was the mild-mannered, sensitive man implied here, and many of the facts are wrong, like showing the Battle of Loudon Hill (1307) as the final victory when, in actuality, final victory was achieved at The Battle of Bannockburn seven years later in 1314. Still, it’s beautifully photographed entirely in Scotland, and the production values are excellent. That said, it’s too long and filled with gruesome battle scenes that could have been shortened or cut. The Girl in the Spider’s Web (4/10): The plot of the book has been completely changed, only the characters remain, and any relationship between them and the novel is purely coincidental. What’s left is incoherent nonsense. Two things about the movie that are very good are the music by Roque Baños and the performance
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Instant Family (9/10): Based on writer / director Sean Anders touching and often humorous personal experience as a foster parent, both Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne are at the top of their games, using their comedic licks without going over the line into slapstick or parody. Both should qualify for Oscar nominations, as well as Anders and co-writer John Morris for a dazzling script. But nominations for comedy are as rare as hen’s teeth. A Private War (8/10): This basically true story of the late war correspondent Marie Colvin (Rosamund Pike) shows a lot of action, and some of the scenes are disturbing. But it seems as if it is a pretty faithful story of a woman who was not normal. In this film she seems drawn to danger like a magnet and used extremely question-
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