The Ray Pletcher Blog

Onscreen chemistry can sometimes be the determining factor in the enjoyment level of a movie and that is certainly the case in Netflix’s Murder Mystery which finds Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston as a delightfully fun onscreen pair.Summary: Murder Mystery follows a New York cop and his wife going on a European vacation to liven up their 15-year-old marriage who find themselves framed for murder. Murder Mystery is far from a perfect mystery film but what makes it work is the stellar performances from Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston and the film’s willingness to fully embrace the absurdity of the situation the characters find themselves in.   Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are long-standing standouts in Hollywood and in Murder Mystery they prove they are still capable of delivering entertainment in high gear. One of the most compelling parts of their performances is their transformative acting which makes you believe in the characters you are watching and at the same tim...

  History has a riches of true powerful stories and director Theodore Melfi directs a very poignant and powerful true story that took place in the 1960s. His 2017 film Hidden Figures recounts the true story behind three African-American women who worked at NASA who helped to correctly calculate the launching of a space shuttle with astronaut John Glenn at the helm  to get a man into space in the race against the Russians. The most major character in the story Katherine Johnson played excellently by Taraji P. Henson is a “human-computer” at NASA who is instrumental in the calculations for the space shuttle launching in the Space Task Force. Octavia Spencer plays Dorothy Vaughan another human-computer who goes on to operate a machine that performs calculations at razor speed, and Janelle Monae plays Mary Jackson a human-computer assigned to work as an assistant to the male engineers. The true story drives forward with plenty of feel good moments with a superb cast including K...

Bond, James Bond. This iconic introduction from James Bond has been burned into the minds of millions of fans across the globe for the past several decades with six actors so far having undertaken the role of 007 to date. The latest actor to take on the role of Bond is Daniel Craig who with the release of No Time To Die hopefully this coming April, will have played Mr. Bond for an impressive and record-breaking 15 years, that’s three whole years longer than Roger Moore even though Roger Moore was in seven films and Daniel Craig’s final Bond film will be his fifth portrayal of the character. Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond is coming to a close with No Time To Die , but the James Bond franchise will surely continue for decades to come and the possibilities are not limited in the least.  Post-Daniel Craig the Series Should Reboot Daniel Craig’s Bond has had the most serialized storyline of all the Bonds to date no doubt as his first outing as the secret agent in Casi...