Movie Review: One Life
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6d ago
The new movie “One Life” starring Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton is another World War II story that I am surprised has not been a major film in the past. Nicholas Winton was a young London broker who visited Prague Czechoslovakia in December 1938 right before the Nazis were about to invade and take over the country. Winton took it upon himself to rescue hundreds of child refugees in Czechoslovakia from the extreme cold and the oncoming Nazi occupation. His plan was to send all of the children to safety in England, providing them shelter and whenever possible, foster homes. The logisti ..read more
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Amazon Prime Movie Review: Road House
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6d ago
In the entire history of Cable TV, the 1989 movie “Road House” has probably been telecast more than any other movie, despite the fact that the entire movie is not only bad, but ridiciulous. The ending included several scenes of murder by main character James Dalton, played by the late Patrick Swayze, one witnessed by his girlfriend Dr. Elizabeth Clay, played by Kelly Lynch and the abrupt ending included Dalton and his doctor girlfriend hugging in a lake. All is forgiven? No police or an arrest? This entire movie, while still bad, has become a major cult film and because of this ongoing popular ..read more
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Movie Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
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6d ago
One would have thought, that the producers and owners of the Ghostbusters franchise that started in 1984 – 40 years ago, would have learned from the low ratings of the last movie “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”, released in late 2021 that it was time to try and save this franchise before it was too late. Unfortunately the latest, and hopefully last installment, “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” is even worse than the last film. What is most tragic is that everybody knows that the first Ghostbusters movie and the second one, released in 1989 were both good movies. Given that the screenwriters and produc ..read more
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Movie Review: Love Lies Bleeding
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1w ago
Squalor, a miserable terrible job, homelessness, a bleak and poor future, and extreme depression are all realities that are the beginning of the new movie "Love Lies Bleeding". This movie starts with the main character Lou, played by Kristen Stewart, with her arm (while wearing rubber gloves) inside a disgusting clogged toilet bowl trying to fix the clog. Perhaps the dilapidated gym she was working in did not have a plunger? This first scene sets the tone of this movie, which is shocking, at times disgusting, vile, and all about the lowest levels of humanity, including even homelessness. The ..read more
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Oscar Winners 2023
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2w ago
The good news is that, unlike last year when "Everything Everywhere All At Once" won for best picture, this year's horrendous and disgusting disaster "Poor Things" did not win best picture. The bad news is that Lily Gladstone did not win Best Actress for "Killers of the Flower Moon" which would have made her the first American Indian to win an Oscar. The Academy decided to give the Best Actress award to Emma Stone for Poor Things, and a performance that I thought after seeing this horrible production, an actress would be too embarrassed to accept any award, due to the series of insane and craz ..read more
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Movie Review: Dune Part 2
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3w ago
The sequel to the original Dune released in 2021 was a movie I streamed some time ago and it was so boring that I had to fast-forward through a majority of the film. For the sequel “Dune Part 2”, the extreme levels of boredom still exist and I thought that the best way to see both of these movies is to either get the DVDs or stream them, and then just skip to the action scenes and special effects. Dune 2 is yet another example of special effects first, great screenplay a distant second. This is mostly because of the anticipated embedded audience that the producers expect because of the fans of ..read more
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Movie Review: Ordinary Angels
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1M ago
Human interest, a true story that is almost impossible to believe ever happene and excellent acting are just some of the accolades that describe just about one of the best movies about a real event that I have ever seen. The story of the new movie “Ordinary Angels” is about a hairdresser Sharon Stevens, played by Hilary Swank who is a serious alcoholic who refuses to admit she has a problem. Sharon is a person who is looking for a purpose, perhaps to make sense of her life of constant drinking, being divorced for many years, and estranged from her only son, who hates her. Sharon sees a pictur ..read more
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Movie Review: The Teachers Lounge
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1M ago
The new movie "The Teachers Lounge" is not for any young person on the fence about becoming a school teacher. The entire world knows that being a teacher is one of the most noble and important professions any person can aspire to. The world also knows that teachers are grossly underpaid and disrespected even though a good teacher can change lives and a great teacher can save lives. The Teachers lounge is a foreign film from Germany with subtitles, but despite this I did not mind reading the dialogue. The screenplay for this movie seems to hit all the important points about being an employee/t ..read more
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Movie Review: Madame Web
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1M ago
The new movie “Madame Web” has achieved a new high as far as an idea, story, and screenplay that are so bad, there should be a documentary created just to try and figure out why garbage this horrendous was ever created and then greenlighted into a motion picture that costs millions of dollars to produce. Madame Web stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, in a role that could represent some level of complete career suicide. Anyone who would read this terrible screenplay, written by no less than 4 screenwriters and take this role anyway, has to wonder about either their decision-making ability ..read more
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Movie Review: Argylle
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1M ago
orner that did not work, and then trying to create an insane ending and explanation to rescue the screenplay that mutated into ridiculous and illogical. There are reasons why screenwriting has always been considered the world's most difficult art form. The premise of this new film, starring Bryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway, who is a famous author of a series of related spy novels that happen to have way too much in common with real life. From this idea, there is a 2-hour film attempting to explain how something like this could ever happen, and unfortunately the whole premise never works. Mo ..read more
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