POZitive Attitudes

REMINDER FRIDAY MOVIE TONIGHT – JUNE 28

How many of you watched the Ed Sullivan Show to see the first BEATLES performance in 1964?  At age 6, I knew after watching them that I was gay. I screamed at the TV, like a teenage girl! My parents were not amused.

– John Ramos

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FRIDAY MOVIE & EATS – JUNE 28, 2019

“YESTERDAY”

GATEWAY THEATRE

STARTS: 7 PM

After movie group can decide where to eat. 2 weeks ago we had 16 group members see the movie LATE NIGHT. Then 10 guys went to eat at Burger Stop in Gateway Plaza.

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The Story

Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that The Beatles have never existed. Performing songs by the greatest band in history to a world that has never heard them, Jack becomes on overnight sensation with a little help from his agent.

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REVIEW  (5 Stars out of 5 * * * * *) – Caryn James – BBC

Richard Curtis writes romantic comedies – Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually are the best – so enticing that we wish they were real. His films are believable enough emotionally to be both joyful and heartbreaking, while their characters and situations are more colourful and exciting than everyday life. And they flow with the effortless charm of, say, early Hugh Grant.

“Yesterday” has those qualities, except this time the true love affair is between filmgoers and The Beatles, whose music forms a nearly wall-to-wall soundtrack. The fanciful, hilarious premise is that an unsuccessful Suffolk busker named Jack Malick wakes up one day as the only man on Earth who remembers the group. The Lennon-McCartney catalogue is suddenly all his.

Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, is not the first person who comes to mind for a Richard Curtis film. But he turns out to be a perfect fit, with a light touch. As in Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle’s apparently simple style actually relies on a complicated balance of sweetness, naturalness, and big, bright settings, including a rooftop concert by the sea where Jack sings Help! and an Ed Sheeran concert at Wembley Stadium. As the blackout rolls out across the world, it’s an echo of how gracefully Boyle handled the opening ceremony at the London Olympics. But he never allows the locations to overwhelm the dilemma of an ordinary guy caught in an outlandish situation.