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Movie Review: “Don’t Look Up”
Astronomy graduate student and Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), was looking at the stars for her own research when she spotted a comet! Checking the trajectory, she decided to call Professor Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) in to take a look and verify her findings. Sure enough, a very large comet….over 6…
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Movie Review: “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”
Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch) was raised in a wealthy family in the late 1800’s with 5 sisters and a mother that he is “supporting” with odd jobs and leftover money in the bank that is dwindling rapidly. Louis was, to put it nicely, eccentric, when, in fact, he was bordering on mental illness. But he…
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Movie Review: “Long Story Short”
Teddy (Rafe Spall) is always putting things off until “later”. New Years Eve, at a party, Teddy rushes (his normal way in his hectic life) to his girlfriend as the clock strikes midnight and kisses her! Only problem is…..the woman he kissed is NOT his girlfriend! Ooops. As it turns out, that kiss leads to…
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“The Secret: Dare to Dream” Movie Review
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“Work It” Movie Review
Quinn Ackerman (Sabrina Carpenter) is doing everyhting she can in high school to get into the college of her dreams: Duke (her late dad’s alma mater). One of Quinn’s extracurricular activites is to run the lights for the high school’s championship damce team, the Thunderbirds, led by arrogant, self centered, Julliard Pembroke (Keiynan Lonsdale). One…
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“She’s In Portland” Movie Review
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“Paterson” Movie Review
Paterson (Adam Driver) was born and raised in Paterson, N.J. (also the home of Lou Costello). Paterson is now a bus driver in Paterson where he lives a few blocks away from the bus depot, with his wife or girfriend, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) and her dog, Marvin (Nellie), Every morning and evening he walks to…
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“The Courier” Movie Review
“The Courier” is based on a true story. If you remember, or learned about, the Cuban Missile Crises…..go here for more info. Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) was in Russsian Prime Minister Khrushchev’s inner circle. As the head of the Science and Technology Beaureu and a GRU agent, he was privy to a number of advances…
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“10 Things I Hate About You” Movie Review
Before you watch this movie, it is good to know that it is based on William Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” and, as such, it has numerous references to Shakespeare during the movie; some overt…some subtle. Had I realized that, I would have read “Taming of the Shrew” before watching this movie…..NOT! 😉 Cameron James…
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