One of the many trailers we saw before the new "Mission: Impossible" movie on Saturday night was for M. Night Shyamalan's new film, "Glass," with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. As usual, some of the filming was done in Philadelphia (30th Street Station was unmistakeable in the trailer). The director, who lives in Willistown, has been known to shoot even closer to home: friends' farms in Unionville were featured prominently in "The Happening," and "The Village" was shot in Chadds Ford, but this time I didn't see any rural scenes. According to Wikipedia, he also shot at a former hospital in Allentown and the gym at Bryn Mawr College.
Dearest Partner and I have very different tastes in movies, but we had a hoot at "Fallout." There were enough car, motorcycle and helicopter chases to satisfy him, and to my surprise I found myself laughing aloud at the over-the-top stunts (a mid-air skydiving rescue!) and whiplash-inducing plot twists (one with CNN's Wolf Blitzen), as well as tiny, hilarious moments like the broad-minded gent who walked in on Tom Cruise and two other men having a heated disagreement in the stall of a Paris bathroom ("Melange?" he asked hopefully, eyes widening with delight). Paris and London looked beautiful, and I spend enough time working out to realize how crazy fit Cruise must be.
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