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Movie Review: “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”
Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler) and Lydia Rodriguez Katz (Samantha Lorraine) have been best friends since they were little kids. They have been looking forward to their Bat Mitzvah’s for just as long. This is the year they both turn 13 and Stacy is going to put together Lydia’s Bat Mitzvah video. They both decided that…
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Movie Review: “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”
Army veteran and electronics technician Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) is out of work and struggling to pay for his brother’s medical care. Hooking up with some old friends, Noah resorts to stealing cars to make a few bucks……and the first car he chose….just happens to be an Autobot, Mirage (Pete Davidson). Mirage was called into…
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Movie Review: “Jerry and Marge Go Large”
After 42 years working for the same company, Jerry Selbee (Bryan Cranston), is being forced to retire. Not sure what to do in retirement, Jerry is depressed and his wife, Marge (Annette Bening) is feeling the strain (when they were supposed to be having fun in their “golden years”). One day, Jerry was sitting is…
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Movie Review: “The Storied Life of AJ Fikry”
A.J. Fikry’s (Kunal Nayyar) wife passed away a year ago. Since then, AJ has been drowning his sorrows in booze and letting his beautiful little bookstore go to crap. The new sales representative for a book publisher, Amelia (Lucy Hale), has to travel 5 hours to get to AJ’s Alice Island bookstore. On her first…
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Movie Review: “Peace by Chocolate”
Leaving war torn Syria (where his father’s chocolate factory was just destroyed) for Canada, Tareq (Ayham Abou Ammar), is ready to start a new life…..and help his parents and sister join him. Almost finished with his medical degree, Tareq applies to numerous colleges….none of which accept him. Tareq’s mother and father, Issam (Hatem Ali), join…
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Nathan Tran Graduates from Pomona College
Nathan Tran, our 2019 recipient of the Carol Phan Memorial College Scholarship, has graduated from Pomona College cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Politics with a minor in History. I’m pretty sure Nathan will do his best to make a major impact in this world! 🙂 Go here to read Nathan’s winning…
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Movie Review: “Somewhere in Queens”
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Movie Review: “Rams”
In Australian sheep country, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton) are brothers living next to each other, but…..have not spoken to each other in 40 years. They are both sheep ranchers and each has a prize winning ram to show at the county fair. After the winner is chosen, Colin notices some symptoms of…
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Movie Review: “Easy A”
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