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Movie Review: The Bucket List

Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson make a good team in the film “The Bucket List”. The storyline revolves around the unlikely friendship between rich guy Edward Cole (Nicholson) and regular guy Carter Chambers (Freeman) when they both find they are diagnosed with a terminal disease. This is basically a buddy movie with an unlikely topic. [...]

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Movie Review: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” earned three well deserved Oscars for this animation/live action film, becoming an instant classic. The story revolves around Roger (Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit), his wife (Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit), a murder and a detective who hates toons. The movie has the feel of the Warner Bros tongue-in-cheek adult humor [...]

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Movie Review: Dan In Real Life

“Dan in Real Life” has a sweetness and family feel to it that stems from the directing style and wise casting of Steve Carrell as Dan. The premise of widower and single dad Dan meeting someone new only to find she is his brother’s girlfriend may not be an idea you haven’t seen before, but [...]

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Movie Review: The Deer Hunter

Set in the era of the Vietnam war “The Deer Hunter” is an anti-war film at its best. This is a stunning, gritty film on war and what it does to war survivors. The story involves three friends from a small industrial town who enlist in the army and follows their experiences in a Vietnam [...]

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Movie Review: 3:10 to Yuma

The remake of “3:10 to Yuma” is a solid western made in the old traditions of western films with gritty reality added to the mix. I have never seen the original film so I have nothing to compare the remake to in this review. I have seen a number of old westerns over the years [...]

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