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The movie had so many things going for it. It had a good cast with Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as detectives investigating a patient escaping from a mental institution for the criminally insane that is run by Ben Kingsley. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and came from...

I read the book when I was kid, but I don’t remember much about it beyond the pictures. That is what stuck with me over the years. I saw it with only that memory, but guessed I would enjoy it since Spike Jonze is an oddball. I wasn’t disappointed....

Going into the movie, I thought it was going to be a movie version of the Lewis Carroll classic, but it turns out that it is based on the characters with its own story. Alice did visit Underland when she was little. They make a joke that she called...

Liam Neeson is a former government agent named Bryan, whose dumb teenage daughter insists on going on an unsupervised trip to Europe with her friend.  Almost immediately after they arrive, they’re targeted by kidnappers who break into their apartment and take them away to be sold into prostitution.  As that’s...

My pick for October is Beverly Hills Cop. You might remember back when Eddie Murphy really was hilarious. You’ll have to concentrate very hard though because it’s been a while. Netflix synopsis: Tough-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) heads to the rarified world of Beverly Hills in his...

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to a public office in 1977 in San Francisco. He fought against a city ordinance that allowed companies to fire someone based on their sexual orientation. He also fought against a state proposition along the same lines and eerily similar...

While watching Transporter 3, I thought it was the same plot as the first one or was it the second one? Maybe both. Then I realized that I’ve never seen the second one. I thought I did. I might as well have since it seems to be the same movie...

This movie was so much better than the turd of a movie that came out a few years ago where a cartoony Hulk bounced through the movie.  I thought the movie did a better job getting right into the action by skipping past how be became the Hulk during...

When the movie first came out, I wanted to see it because I love Paul Thomas Anderson. The cinematography looked amazing. It was pretty while also being bleak. Then, it became known for the line, “I drink your milkshake!” which Daniel Day-Lewis’ character Daniel Plainview says to Paul Dano’s...

I had high hopes for this movie since I loved Donnie Darko, which was also directed by Richard Kelly. While watching it though, my hopes were crushed as I could not believe this was the same director. Now I wonder if he can only make one good movie, which...