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Movie Review: “Love at First Sight”
20 year old, Hadley Sullivan (Haley Lu Richardson) is flying from JFK in New York to London to be a bridesmaid in her father’s wedding. It’s complicated. Hadley misses her fight! 22 year old Yale statistics major, Oliver Jones (Ben Hardy) is flying from JFK in New York to London for his mother’s memorial. It’s…
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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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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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Movie Review: “The Beanie Bubble”
As you can tell from the picture…..Lori was “invested” in the Beanie Baby “bubble”. Getting up early in the morning and standing in line for hours just to buy the latest Beanie Baby…..not for investment, but, for Kristen (who was a baby then), and, it was fun. 🙂 But I digress…..back to the movie. Warning:…
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Movie Review: “Happiness for Beginners”
Helen (Ellie Kemper) has been separated for a year. Recently, the divorce has been finalized and Helen, instead of celebrating, is filled with renewed angst. Taking her younger brothers advice, Helen signs up for a wilderness survival course hoping to “reset”. Arriving at the course headquarters (a motel in Connecticut) Helen meets her fellow hikers,…
ForCarol: Drive Safe! Never Forget 