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  • “Find Me” Movie Review

    “Find Me” Movie Review

    Amelia (Sara Amini) is an accountant at a large firm. Lately, Amelia has been missing a lot of work and is becoming lax with doing her own work. She has been found to have taken money from the company and donated it to charities. She has the overwhelming desire to go out into the wilderness…

  • “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society” Movie Review

    “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society” Movie Review

    World War II (fact) The Germans occupied Guernsey ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernsey ) for a good portion of World War II. The kids of Guernsey were shipped out knowing the German invasion was coming, but the adults stayed and suffered. The Germans took their pigs, their farms, houses, and their freedom. On May 9, 1945 the occupation…

  • Movie Review: “Stone of Destiny”

    Movie Review: “Stone of Destiny”

    The “Stone of Destiny” is a true story of how Ian Hamilton (Charlie Cox) and his daredevil team of Scottish Nationalists retook control of the Scottish “Stone of Scone” from England in 1950. in 1950, the Scottish Nationalist movement was fighting headwinds as most Scottish people were content to just live their lives as underlings…

  • “Love and Hostages” Movie Review

    “Love and Hostages” Movie Review

    Waking up in bed….together…..after a drunken night before is the last thing Michael (Randall Core) and Eva Natalie Stavola) wanted. Eva pretends to be asleep as clumsy Michael gets dressed and tries to leave Eva’s apartment. “Tries to leave” is the key phrase as Michael is forced to stay due to an ongoing hostage situation across…

  • Movie Review: “Bernard and Doris”

    Movie Review: “Bernard and Doris”

    Doris Duke (Susan Sarandon) is the heiress to the Duke tobacco fortune, and is quite the spoiled bitch. After firing her latest butler because her breakfast melon was too cold, she, luckily, hired Bernard Lafferty (Ralph Fiennes). The two struck up a friendship that would last for the rest of Doris’s life. “Bernard and Doris”…

  • “The Great Gilly Hopkins” Movie Review

    “The Great Gilly Hopkins” Movie Review

    Gilly Hopkins (Sophie Nelisse) is on her last chance foster home.  If she messes this up, the social services department will find alternative living arrangements for the difficult Gilly. Maime Trotter (Kathy Bates) is a foster home veteran who knows the ropes and is very good at taking care of difficult cases such as Gilly…

  • “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” Movie Review

    “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” Movie Review

    Jake (Asa Butterfield) is an ordinary teen growing up in Florida. Working at his job one day, he gets a call to go help his grandfather, Abe (Terence Stamp), who has dementia.  Arriving late, Jake finds his grandfather near death in the woods behind his house….his eyes are missing. Before he dies, Abe tells Jake…

  • “The Imitation Game” Movie Review

    “The Imitation Game” Movie Review

    (Breaking Enigma) Going to college for my degree in Electrical Engineering (digital hardware design and electromagnetics) Alan Turing was a hero. A genius who gave us the first computer (and digital design). He laid the foundation for artificial intelligence and robotics, and, was instrumental in winning WWII. “The Imitation Game” is inspiring to all those…

  • “Big Stone Gap” Movie Review

    “Big Stone Gap” Movie Review

    – – In 1978, Big Stone Gap, VA was a small Appalachian town where coal was king and everyone knew everyone else. Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) just turned 40 and is officially an “old maid”. Her friends think it is about time she settled for anyone and got married.  But, Ave is still being…