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About a Boy

Believe me, I am no Hugh Grant fan, but I was completely enthralled with this movie from start to finish. The story is of Will, who has no job and no life really, he just does whatever he wants and doesn’t really care about anything. That all changes when an outcast boy, Marcus, forces himself …

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Never before have I seen so many bad-ass old ladies since my Grandmother (may she rest in peace) and her sisters would make trouble. The story is of Siddalee (Bullock) discovering why her mother acted the way she did growing up, and coming to a point of having a relationship with her. A heartwarming, though …

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Darkness Falls

This is one of the thinnest plots I’ve ever seen that still was able to entertain. The only reason I even give this movie two marks is because it is pretty entertaining, but there is not much else. The story is of a nice old woman who takes the children of the villages’ teeth that …

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Terminator 3

I celebrated July 4th recently the best way I could, by watching a bunch of stuff blow up. And I tell ya, if you’re looking for explosions, look no further. They must destroy 30 full city blocks before the plot even enters the equation. When I first saw the previews for this latest movie in …

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Ghost Ship

t’s movies like this that make you wonder “What on earth happened to Gabriel Byrne?” Why he’s in this movie, the world may never know. A group of ship salvagers get lured out to a ship that a pilot spots when flying over the arctic one day. The ship holds the corpses of a whole …

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Talk to Her (Habla con Ella)

A movie about two men who form an odd friendship when both the objects of their affection are in comas. Benigno (who’s in the picture below) is madly in love with a girl, although she doesn’t know it, and Marco is in love with a female matador who slips into a coma after being violently …

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Frida

Based on the true story of Frida Kahlo (or “Sex Kitten” as I like to call her), the movie journeys with Frida through a painful injury she goes through at a young age and a subsequent terrible marriage with Diego Rivera, the angst of which she gets out by painting very inventive works, and her …

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Bruce Almighty

A surprisingly poignant and touching story about a guy who gets so frustrated with his life that he takes it out on God, who in turn lets him have all his powers to see how he can manage. When I first saw previews for this movie (before The Two Towers, in fact), I couldn’t help …

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Adaptation

An incredibly original story about a man writing the screenplay for the movie you’re watching. I’m not a huge Nicholas Cage fan, but he was incredible, not to mention being backed by equally fantastic performances from Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper (and that guy from Office Space!!!). This is definately one of the most original …

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