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Movie Review: “Family Switch”

The Walker Family ((Jess (Jennifer Garner), Bill (Ed Helms), CC (Emma Myers), Wyatt (Brady Noon), Miles (Lincoln and Theodore Sykes), and Pickles)) are running around getting ready for Christmas, a promotion, a college interview, a record deal, and a soccer tryout. One night they visit the Griffith Observatory to view the alignment of planets when…
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Movie Review: “Candy Cane Lane”

Every year the residents of Candy Cane Lane compete for the best Christmas yard decorations. This year, there is an extra incentive to win as the local cable TV outlet is covering the festivities and will judge the winner of the $50,000 prize. For the Carver family, that incentive is even stronger as Chris (Eddie…
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Movie Review: “The Layover”

It’s been a tough day! High School English teacher, Kate (Alexandra Daddario), lets one of her students read from a manga book with the principal watching. The book is sexual in nature and Kate is asked to resign. Ooops. Meg (Kate Upton) is on a sales call trying to get her new line of cosmetics…
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Movie Review: “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose”

Nandor Fodor (Simon Pegg) was a paranormal psychologist back in the 1930’s. He was quite famous and, although he was a true believer at the start of his career, he became a skeptic later on. This movie is based in his skeptic years, or is the start of his skeptic years. Eventually, Nandor believed that…
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Movie Review: “Love Is in the Air”

Fullerton Airways is a very small operation in Queensland, Australia. The entire team running it consists of three people: Chief pilot (and the co-founder’s daughter) Dana (Delta Goodrem), co-founder (and Dana’s dad) Jeff (Roy Billing), and Mechanic / Tech Whiz Nikki (Steph Tisdell). Jeff needs to bring more money in, while Dana is more interested…
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Movie Review: “Take Care”

Returning to her 4 story walk-up apartment after being hit by a car, Frannie (Leslie Bibb) is couch-bound for (according to her doctor) somewhere between 6 weeks and 27 years. Even though her sister and friends vowed to take care of her, they have lives of their own and Frannie, with a broken leg AND…
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Movie Review: “Flora and Son”

Single mom, Flora (Eve Hewson) is struggling to keep her 14 year old son, Max (Oren Kinlan) from committing more crimes than he already has. The advice the local garda gave her is to find something for Max to do, or it will be jail time! Passing a garbage dump near a rennovated home, Flora…
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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…

