Good People.

"Good People" is a movie that is good by all accounts: it has good acting, direction and the cinematography is inviting. Based in East London, a married couple is trying desperately to start a family (James Franco and Kate Hudson).

Trouble begins when a French drug dealer is robbed and a tenant who lives in their basement flat is found dead. This is when the problems start for this young hard working couple. Franco has just inherited a home on the posh West Side of London; a big step up from the cockney, poverty ridden East End of London. Although it is never clear that the Mid Westerners from America make their journey to England for this reason.

But once their tenant dies is when the problems start to follow. The discovery of 200,000 pounds in the ceiling gives pause as to what the renter was up to. Did he inherit this money? Was it his life's savings? Is he a rich recluse? The answer comes pretty quickly as the bad guys start coming around the pairs apartment.

The movie gives a good plot, a nice bit of mystery and suspense to it. The couple is caught in between two factions: the people who robbed the drugs- they want the drugs back as well as the money that Ben took. The French gangster wants his drugs back. He also wants to kill the thieves in the process.

Even though the Franco/ Hudson characters lead a normal quite life, the detectives and the criminals do not believe them. Detective Halden ( an excellent Tom Wilkinson) has his doubts from the jump. He sees that Franco and Hudson are jittery in their answers when questioned. The criminals are forceful in they way they go about getting the money back. They know that it is somewhere in the house and they want answers. As does the French gangster.

In the end everything is gone... little money is left, their dream house burnt like their dreams, and yet, they are fine with each other. Not giving away the plot, "Good People" is worth seeing, if for nothing else, you get to see Kate Hudson's bare tush!

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"The Good Liar"

This Ian McKellam and Helen Mirren movie is first rate! The acting (two great actors), are older people who meet on a dating site. The writing leads you one way and then the switch-a-roo happens! Like "Good People", "The Good Liar" takes place in London. These two legends banter about and play one another. Neither one is who they seem to be. In the course of two hours we have a completely different plot; for the movie lover who loves this genre, "The Good Liar" is at the top of the chart. The two actors bring tremendous depth to their roles. It makes it possible to believe one set of facts only to be another set of facts.

"The Good Liar" is recommended. It is never slow, always consuming and the twists will keep you locked into the screen play throughout the entire movie.

The last three movies that I have seen were all exceptional: "Good People", The Last Stop/Yuma" and "The Good Liar" brought three different genres: The switch of plot in "Good Liar", a remote story based mostly in one area in "Yuma" and "Good People" in an action thriller genre.

I recommend all three movies as they are true to the genre in which they are all in. All three will keep your attention; all three are deep in their individual stories. Broadway Bob, Kate Hudson's bare ass, James Franco, Tom Wilkinson, Hollywood, London, Ian McKellem, Helen Mirren, Yuma, Arizona, Iran, New York City, Easter, Direction, Plot.