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Goodbye Solo – A Movie Review

October 10, 2009August 10, 2015 242 Views 0 Comments Blowing Rock, Diana Franco Galindo, ouleymane Sy Savane, Ramin Bahrani, Red West, Winston-Salem

On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol’ boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man’s American dream is just beginning, while the other’s is quickly winding down. I never saw a trailer for it, so it was taking a risk. I liked the movie a lot, Lay not so much.

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Informant!, The – A Movie Review

September 20, 2009 B. John 235 Views 1 Comment ADM, Joel McHale, Mark Whitacer, Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Steven Soderbergh

What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn’t been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. This was another movie Lay and I both enjoyed.

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9 – A Movie Review

September 20, 2009 B. John 196 Views 0 Comments 9, Action, Adventure, Alan Oppenheimer, Animation, Shane Acker, SiFi, Tom Kane

The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world’s machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down. But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse. We were both impressed.

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Actors from the Old B and White to Present

September 12, 2009August 10, 2015 186 Views 0 Comments Actors

Here are a series of actors from the old Black and White film days morphing to more current actors. How many of them can you name.

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State of Play – A Movie Review

September 10, 2009August 10, 2015 169 Views 0 Comments Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Kevin Macdonald, Rachel McAdams, Russell Crowe, State of Play

Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party’s contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out. It’s a couple of entertaining hours and whilst it may not be anything new, it’s certainly enjoyable.

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Big Doings for Labor Day At Our House

September 8, 2009September 29, 2018 238 Views 0 Comments cookout, Dance Dance Revolution, DDR, Labor Day, Vacation, Wii

It was a big weekend for us this weekend, but in the end, I did get some rest after Saturday. The weekend started Friday afternoon with Lay’s Graduation Ceremony from the Fire Academy.

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Sunshine Cleaning – A Movie Review

August 31, 2009 B. John 229 Views 0 Comments Alan Arkin, Amy Adams, Christine Jeffs, Comedy, Drama, Emily blunt

Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski now finds herself a thirty something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah is still living at home with their dad Joe, a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes. Desperate to get her son into a better school, Rose persuades Norah to go into the crime scene clean-up business with her to make some quick cash. Lay and I both agreed it is probably the best film we’ve seen recently.

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International, The – A Movie Review

August 25, 2009August 10, 2015 231 Views 0 Comments Action, Adventure, Bankers, Banks, Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Tom Tykwer

Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing — even murder — to continue financing terror and war. It was a bit better than I expected, but I’m glad I didn’t spend the full theatre price to see it.

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District 9 – A Movie Review

August 23, 2009August 10, 2015 183 Views 0 Comments alien, Aliens, Fantasy, Jason Cope, Nathalie Bolt, Neill Blomkamp, Science Fiction, Sharlto Copley, South Africa, space ship

Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. Lay and I went to see this movie at an 11 AM showing last weekend. I’d read all these great reviews, and thought it might be a decent film. Unfortunately, I was somewhat disappointed.

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Band of Brothers – A Mini-Series Review

August 16, 2009 B. John 282 Views 0 Comments 101st Airborne, Adventure, Drama, Easy Company, History, Steven Speilberg, Tom Hanks, War, WW II

This is the story of “E” Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their initial training starting in 1942 to the end of World War II. They parachuted behind enemy lines in the early hours of D-Day in support of the landings at Utah beach, participated in the liberation of Carentan and again parachuted into action during Operation Market Garden. They also liberated a concentration camp and were the first to enter Hitler’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgarten. A fascinating tale of comradeship that is, in the end, a tale of ordinary men who did extraordinary things. Worth everyone of it’s 705 minutes.

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Standard Operating Procedures – A Movie Review

June 29, 2009 B. John 190 Views 0 Comments Abu Ghraib, Charles Graner, Documentary, Errol Morris, Lynndie England, Megan Ambuhl

An examination of the unintended consequences of the Iraqi war with a focus on events at Abu Ghraib prison which began to appear in global media in 2004. The prison quickly became notorious for the shocking photos of the abuse and torture of terror suspects by military men and women. Ultimately, it is the story of soldiers who believed they were defending democracy but found themselves plunged into an unimagined nightmare.