Picking the Oscars in a year when movies were more virtuous than vivid
Although there have been some wonderful movies this year, many were more virtuous than vivid, a trend that started years ago but seems to be intensifying.
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Although there have been some wonderful movies this year, many were more virtuous than vivid, a trend that started years ago but seems to be intensifying.
Jennifer Garner revealed during a talk show interview Monday that she has a family connection to her new film Yes Day. 'I used to read 'Yes Day' by Amy Krouse Rosenthal to my kids. We adopted Yes Days before they were a thing. I think the whole world was kind of quietly starting to do them and then we made a movie of it. So here it is,' said Jennifer, 48, who also is a co-producer of the Netflix comedy that premiered last week on the service. Jennifer has daughters Violet, 15 and Seraphina, 12 and son Samuel, nine, with ex-husband Ben Affleck, 48, and Seth, 47, asked if she really said 'Yes' ...
“Every time Jen talks about that, I go back to my childhood years with my Mom and it’s true—there were so many times that I was told no," Ramírez, who took on his first comedic role in Yes Day, chimed in. "I remember going to the supermarket with my mom and I’m grabbing cookies here and there, and my mom’s just like, ‘No, no, no'." "It’s just about feeling a certain sense of freedom, you know? And that is a beautiful thing, seeing how kids glow when you tell them for one day, you’re going to say, ‘Yes!’” he added.
Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramirez play beleaguered parents in Miguel Arteta's Netflix family pic. Eating ice cream is fun. Riding roller coasters is lots of fun. Watching other people do those things in a movie can be fun, or at least pleasant, under the right circumstances. Those circumstances do not arise in Miguel Arteta's insipid family pic Yes Day, about two lame-o parents (Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramirez) who decide to re-win their kids' love by letting them do absolutely anything they want to do for one special day. It's not impossible that there are Netflix households, a year into ...
CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard We havenât seen Jennifer Garner in a feature film in a hot minute, but her new Netflix comedy is almost here. Adapted from the book of the same name, Yes Day stars Garner, (who also produces) alongside Ãdgar RamÃrez, and Jenna Ortega. Garner and RamÃrez play parents who usually say no to their kids ,but decide to say yes to all of their kidsâ requests (with a few reasonable exceptions) for one day, called Yes Day. The movie releases on Netflix this Friday, March 12, and critics have already started posting their thoughts. Yes Day âa comed...