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“High Crimes” Movie Review
Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is a lawyer with a high powered firm and happily married to Tom Kubik (Jim Caviezel…..Reese). One night, their house is vandalized and the police take fingerprints. Walking around Union Square at Christmas time (something Lori and I have done a zillion times) the FBI surround Tom and Claire and arrest…
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“Fathers & Daughters” Movie Review and Trailer
Jake Davis (Russell Crowe) is a Pulitzer prize winning author. He is driving his wife and young daughter, Katie (Kylie Rogers), home one night when the car crashes. Jake is severely injured and his wife is killed while Katie survives with barely a scratch. Storyline 1: The years immediately after the accident Jake recovers from…
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“Still Alice” Movie Review
Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is a distinguished professor of linguistics at Columbia University and author of a world renown textbook on linguistics. At the youthful age of 50, Alice is mentally and physically active, eats healthy, is excited about her work as a professor and researcher, has a loving husband (John played by Alec Baldwin)…
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2017 Oscar Nominations
Here is a partial list of the 2017 Oscar Nominations. For the complete list, go here. I will post the winners after the Oscars (on TV this Sunday). UPDATE: Yuge, bigly, gaffe announcing the Best Picture winner sets Twitter a-flutter. Best Picture (Links to IMDb) “Arrival” “Fences” “Hacksaw Ridge” “Hell or High Water” “Hidden Figures”…
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“The Big Lebowski” Movie Review
“The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is an unemployed, very lazy, dude. One night as he returned home to his pathetic apartment (the rent is overdue) two thugs attacked him demanding money owed them by Lebowski’s wife, Bunny (Tara Reid). HUH??? The Dude is not married, and he certainly does not have any money. After one…
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“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” Movie Review
UPDATE: May 27, 2025 We watched Season 2 of “Andor” on Disney+ then watched “Rogue One”. Still an awesome, if very depressing, movie. We decided to to keep up the Star Wars streak, and, we are now watching the original “Star Wars” movie from 1977, renamed “A New Hope” episode 4 after the three prequels…
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“The Meddler” Movie Review
Marnie (Susan Sarandon) lost her husband a year (or two) ago and moved to Los Angles to be close to her daughter, Lori (Rose Byrne). Marnie is not yet ready to move on from the memory of her husband and starts to “meddle” in her daughter’s life…..and the lives of her daughter’s friends. This meddling…
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“Life of a King” Movie Review
Eugene (Cuba Gooding Jr.) was just released from jail after 17 years. Unlike many, Eugene is a changed man. He wants to make things right with his daughter, Katrina (Rachae Thomas) and son. But they reject him, blaming him for their childhood troubles…..and, truthfully, they are right: He was a bad father, and a bad…
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“Eddie the Eagle” Movie Review
I remember “Eddie the Eagle” from watching the Olympic games from Calgary in 1988. Eddie Edwards (Taron Egerton) grew up dreaming about becoming an Olympic athlete. Unfortunately, he had physical issues requiring braces on his legs until he was a teenager. Eddie’s mother, Janette (Jo Hartley) supported Eddie’s dreams, but, his father, Terry (Keith Allen),…
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