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“Lady Bird” REVIEW

Saoirse Ronan is back in yet another gut wrenching Dramedy that is receiving high reviews and has already been named best movie at the 2017 New York Film Critics Circle this year.

Greta Gerwig‘s Lady Bird is a coming of age movie about a mother and daughter relationship and what happens when 17-year-old, Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson gets ready to go to college.   Actress Laurie Metcalf plays her judgmental mother whose tough love drives the basis for Lady Bird wanting to go to an East Coast school away from her hometown of Sacramento.

All in all, the dramedy includes some very real moments of what nearly every mother and daughter go through at some point and time and shows that though they may not always get along, the love between them is ultimately stronger than any other love.

Lady Bird came out in theaters November 1 and has since its release already brought in over 12.5 million  domestically at the box office.  It’s a movie for anyone who is a daughter or has a daughter as it shows what each has to go through when getting ready to leave home for the first time.

Lady Bird is still playing in a theater near you.

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Miracle of The Hudson- Seven Years Today.

It’s been 7 years since it came on the news of the heroic landing of a jet plane into the Hudson River by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and yet people still remember.

To recap as previously reported by NBC News on January 15, 2009, the US Airways plane had just taken off from Upstate New York when a flock of birds reportedly ran into a jet line causing both engines to go out. In an effort to save the 155 people on board the jetliner, Captain Sully maneuvered the plane safely down using the Hudson River to land with enough time to rescue all passengers with very few mild injuries.

Sully had instantly been made a hero and celebrity with that one event and people couldn’t stop thinking about it, including a local BMI songwriter named Peter Prince.

Three days after, Prince listened to the cockpit recording that was now public domain as news media outlets had played them frequently and he said, he could feel the strength of the man (Sully) as he was communicating with the airport’s control in LaGuardia causing him (Prince) to tear up emotionally.

From this Prince wrote a song called, “Softly Down”.  Listen here to the two versions sung by Colene Walters and Nashville Vocalist, Alan Johnson.

Both versions are currently available for purchase via CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify.

And stay tuned, Warner Brothers are currently working on a movie under the direction of Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks as “Sully“.  The movie is set to be released September 9, 2016.