Sunday, December 9, 2018

Movies for January 2019: Vice and All the President's Men

Bill G is hosting in January. We will move the January meeting back one week to Wednesday, January 9, 2019. The movies to see are:

Vice (2018)

 The story of Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.

Director: Adam McKay
Writer: Adam McKay
Stars: Alison Pill, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Christian Bale

All the President's Men (1976)

In an attempt to impress girls, two pot-smoking hippies go after the greatest president of our lifetimes and cause him to become a drunken loon. Fortunately for the country, he eventually sobered up long enough to write a letter to Donald Trump urging him to run for political office.

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Writers: Carl Bernstein (book), Bob Woodward (book), William Goldman 
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden

Scores for December 2018 Films

Green Book (2018):  8.30 / 10
No Pay, Nudity (2016): 5.44 / 10

Films of Merit