Category: Movies
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Musings about a Movie and Book Review Crossroad
I hit a crossroad this week in my decision to blog about books and movies I enjoy because I experienced two weeks of disappointments in watching and reading recent releases of TV shows, books and a movie from actors and authors I have read and watched for years. The crossroad is the feeling of disloyalty…
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St. Vincent Movie Review
I usually choose movies based on the story or actors and not by the genre, but the other day I really thought a comedy was what I needed to watch. After looking through my backlog of DVDs to watch, I decided on St. Vincent, which I assumed would be a very funny comedy because it starred Bill…
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Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie Review
I realized after I was walking out of the theater after seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron, that between Major League Baseball and hockey and basketball playoffs, I have not been to the theater to see a movie since seeing Furious 7 last month. While I was ready to tell everyone you have to go see…
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Furious 7 Movie Review
In the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious franchise everything is elevated to another level. If you are looking for a movie that has a little of everything, then Furious 7 is the movie for you. It has unbelievable action scenes (cars dropping from airplanes and flying between skyscrapers); outrageous fighting scenes: Hobbs (“The…
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Movie Review
The British retirees and widowers left residing at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at the end of the original movie have stayed on in Jaipur, India and the hotel owner, Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel), has deemed his hotel venture a success and is looking to expand in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The movie…
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My Road To The Oscars Hit a Dead End
Obviously I started on my road to watch the Academy Award Nominees for Best Motion Picture and Performances by an Actor and Actress in a Leading and Supporting Role much too late and failed to see four of the eight movies nominated for Best Picture and several of the films with actors and actresses nominated…
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And The Oscar Goes To…Boyhood?…The Grand Budapest Hotel?
The 67th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards were held last night and Alejandro G. Inarritu won Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and the film is now the front-runner to win the Oscar for Best Motion Picture of the Year. Over the weekend I watched Boyhood and…
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And the Oscar Goes To…Birdman?
The quest to watch all of the movies nominated for an Academy Award in the categories of best motion picture, best actor and actress, and best actor and actress in a supporting role by February 22nd when the Oscar ceremonies are televised began with the viewing of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Birdman, directed,…
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Taken 3 Movie Review
Amazingly it has been over a month since going to the movie theater and the first movie outing of the year had a good start with Taken 3. I have been a Liam Neeson fan since the 1990s after watching him in the film Michael Collins and have enjoyed his transformation into an action star…
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