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Brave Movie Review
Make a new friend–a new type of princess. Meet Merida. The product of the best parts of her father and her mother. Brave, the latest animated film from Pixar; is quickly becoming a family film favorite. The good news is that children will love it, but bad news is that parents will be disappointed if [...]
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Chronicles of Riddick, a 2004 science fiction film, features a heavily muscled Vin Diesel as the main character Richard B Riddick. This film follows the events of Pitch Black(2002) where Riddick first met Jack and Imam. This episode details Riddick’s escape from prison and the planet Crematoria as well as his battle with the [...]
The Lucky One
American writer Nicholas Sparks penned the book The Lucky One, from which the movie was made. The Lucky One centers around a Marine who did three tours of duty in Iraq. While in battle, he finds a woman’s picture and retrieves it, never finding photograph’s rightful owner. He believes this picture brought him good luck [...]
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell’s 1,000 page book Gone with the Wind was published in 1936 and quickly purchased by June for $50,000. Producer David O. Selznick was criticized for paying such an exhorbitant amount for a first novel by an unknown author. However, history would prove the wisdom of Selznick’s decision as the movie became one of [...]
Rio
The 2011 release of Rio gave American families another excellent family film. At theaters, the 3D computer animated comedy allowed birds to fly off the screen and into family hearts. Blue Sky Studios produced this wonderful musical comedy while Carlos Saldanha directed. The film’s title is taken from the plot’s location, i.e., Rio de [...]
The Amazing Spiderman Review
The Amazing Spider-Man Oh, what tangled webs we weave. Peter Parker knows a thing or two about webs. His father, it seems, was an expert web-weaver—not that Peter ever knew it, of course. He was only four when his parents dropped him off with Uncle Ben and Aunt May sans explanation, never to return. But [...]
R V
RV (As in Recreational Vehicle, a motor home) Nice acting by Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, and Cheryl Hines makes this an appealing family film. Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfelddoes a good job transitioning without losing audience interest, although there could have been better transitioning in the scenes with teens. Robin Willliams plays Bob Munro, [...]
The Future
In this satire of life, two people decide to tend to an injured stray cat. They name it pawpaw because of its badly injured foot. In doing so, the decision turns their lives upside down. The vet clinic tells them to come back in 30 days to pick up Pawpaw up, because the clinic has [...]
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen supposedly made this a comedy. I found nothing funny about dancing Klansmen, the sexy women, nor a one-eyed Bible salesman (although he did make me smile). A greasy haired George Clooney leads John Turturro and Time Blake Nelson in an escape from a chain gang* in 1930′s Mississippi. The action [...]
Cowboys and Aliens
Cowboys & Aliens (Photo credit: Wikipedia) An alien spaceship crash lands in Silver City, Arizona, in the late 1800s. People who don’t like each other, native Americans and European settlers, must work together to defeat a common enemy–aliens from another planet. Arizona is a beautiful state, and viewers are treated to expansive scenes and [...]
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