1. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Is A Big Fan Of Jennifer Lopez!
Lopez’s The Mother Is A Taut New Thriller!
Netflix Scores Again!
Jennifer Lopez’s 24 films have made over $1,500,000,000.
Something about Jennifer Lopez’s face always has you feeling the way her character feels, be it comedy, drama, or shoot them up.
You might think JL’s new movie The Mother is perfect for Mother’s Day!
It is, if you like murder, mayhem, drug cartels doing their business, illegal arms deals, and child exploitation. There is mother-daughter bonding, though! And a smashing ending!
Jennifer Lopez was a sniper in the army and recruited after her stint over seas to join Adrian Lovell (Joseph Fiennes), her captain, in lucrative and illegal drug and arms deals. Hector Alvarez (Gael Garcia Bernal) is the principle arms and drug dealer involved in their operation. Lopez is sleeping with both of them.
Lopez becomes pregnant and at the same time she finds the two men are, also, in the young child exploitation business. She discovers a giant mental cargo crate filled with very young children, sealed, and being ready to ship to Cuba.
Lopez runs to the FBI and her agent friend from her war days William Cruise (Omar Hardwick). She becomes an informant and is immediately whisked to a safe house with seven men, including Cruise, protecting her.
The house is attacked by the cartel. Six agents are killed. Cruise is severely wounded and Lopez is stabbed in the stomach as Lovell tries to kill her and her baby as the house explodes. Lopez and Cruise are hospitalized as her baby girl is delivered. The baby has to be given up for adoption and her own protection with a now recovering Cruise promising to be forever on guard over the child. Lopez gets a picture of her on every birthday.
Director Nikki Caro fast forwards twelve years ahead and shows Zoe and her adoptive parents as the cartel finds them in Ohio. Cruise tells Lopez of this leak and she rushes back from Alaska to battle the cartel as they snatch Zoe (Lucy Paez) and wound her other mother.
From that point on, the movie is non-stop action as Zoe is taken to Cuba, snatched back violently by Lopez, and then is re-snatched when they get back to the United States. Lopez refuses to admit to Zoe that Zoe is her daughter. In between all this, with Lopez and her daughter on the run, Lopez has three months to conduct survival training with her daughter that Zoe will use later in the movie.
Maybe, The Mother is a good Mother’s Day movie?
2. Let’s Talk Philadelphia And Its Judy Blume Connection!
Judy Blume Forever Is On Amazon Prime!
Are You There God? It Is Me Margaret…Is At Your Local Theater!
Judy Blume is the author of forty adult and children’s books. Her books are written in 24 languages and have sold eighty million copies worldwide. The Judy Blume documentary Judy Blume Forever on Amazon Prime has some great interviews with Judy as it reviews her life and writing successes and failures. The companies that rejected her original works want a take back…
After seeing both movies get a copy of Tiger Eyes to read. It is one of her best works and features a Philadelphia model on the cover and a story that takes place nearby in Atlantic City. The young lady on the book’s cover was sitting in a casting agent’s office waiting for an interview when she was selected out of the blue by Judy’s book copy rep.
Tiger Eyes
By Judy Blume
A young girl…Davey Wexler’s father has been killed in a hold-up at his a 7-11 Store. The trauma is tearing at Davey, her mother, and her younger brother. Their friends and family try to help, but little can be done to ease the family’s pain. The family temporarily moves from Atlantic City, New Jersey to a relative’s home in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The new environment seems to add extra problems as would be expected with any family’s move. In New Mexico, Davey meets/befriends an Indian boy whose grandfather is dying. Somehow, with a dying grandfather’s wisdom, slow answers and solutions begin to develop. Death, illness, and family problems are developed by one of America’s most read authors. You will enjoy this story as a catapult to reading other Judy Blume books.
3. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Can Save The Vice President’s Daughter!
The Night Agent Will Take You On A Cross Country Ride To Do So!
It Is Netflix Double Play In This Month’s Column!
The Night Agent is Netflix’s third most viewed debuting series of all time. It is now the sixth most watched program of all time for the streaming service. The ten part series has been renewed for a second year after a month in the trenches.
FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) has the loneliest job in the world as he mans a midnight to 8AM phone in a dreary office in the White House basement. The phone number that he monitors is used by field agents to call if they run into any important problems in their work.
Nothing ever happens…until…he gets a call from Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan) who has just witnessed her aunt and uncle’s murder by two assassins Ellen (Eve Harlow) and Dale (Phoenix Raei). The aunt and uncle gave Rose the White House number in case anything happened to them. She did not know her aunt and uncle were former agents and researching a devastating conspiracy.
Peter Sutherland and Rose Larkin are then on the hunt for a traitor in the White House who tries to kill President Redfield, who successfully kidnaps his daughter, Maddie Redfield (Sarah Desjardins) and is about to throw the United States into disarray. Peter and Rose are doing all this while fleeing two assassins and a team of traitors. You will enjoy this ten part series and make all sorts of predictions on how season two will follow this story or branch out on its own in new directions.
4. A Let’s Talk Philadelphia Reminder That Received The Most Column Comments!
Please, Put Philadelphia’s The Barnes Museum On Your Must Visit List!
As Let’s Talk Philadelphia Salutes Painter Laura Wheeler Waring!
She Certainly Made Philadelphia And Nearby Cheyney University Proud!
A World Renowned Artist And A College Teacher!
The Barnes Museum in Philadelphia is a must see for every visitor and art lover vacationing in or passing through Philadelphia. The Barnes’ audio virtual tour will amaze you to no end as you sit in front of your computer before and after your visit or if you can’t make it to Philadelphia. Mary Cassett introduced Albert C. Barnes to the spurned, fledgling post impressionist and impressionist art movement in Europe as he bought up everything (now valued at 2 billion dollars) he could find from Monet to Renoir to Degas.
As you move on from the Barnes to research Mary Cassett and other Philadelphia painters, the name Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) pops up first on every list. Waring was a prominent Afro-American artist in the United States and Europe. Her scenic paintings and portraits brought the Harlem Renaissance to life and many black leaders like Webb Du Bois to the artistic forefront. Waring’s awards and accolades are numerous including the Connecticut Hall of Fame and the Laura Wheeler Waring School 1801 Green St, Philadelphia, PA 19130 being named after her.
Much of Waring’s training took place at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (six years) and in France where she gathered a European following.
Waring died in Philadelphia in 1948, but before that she spent 30 years at Cheyney University and Teachers College. Sh chaired the music and art departments. Thousands of students studied with her at Cheyney as she was continually designing new programs for both the music and art departments. She, too, is a great research subject.
5. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Will Bend Your Mind, Once Again!
The Monthly Two Minute Puzzle Features ING Words!
Challenge A Friend Over The Phone After You Complete The Puzzle!
As soon as I (Adelina) finish with my play time, I will help you with Tom Palumbo’s latest Two Minute Puzzle ING words. ING words are words that have the letters ING in the word in exact order. Read the puzzle to a friend on the phone and see how many they can get in two minutes after you finish the puzzle. The answer’s will appear in the next column.
Example:
A child’s backyard favorite…Swing
A doorbell must…Ring
1. Mom’s favorite…
2. Think Santa Claus…
3. A potato chip…
4. Gold bullion…
5. A foreign capital…
6. Lace…
7. A taco like shell for food…
8. To shirk away in fear…