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Movie Review: Contagion (2011) The Long & Short of It
The short review: All human beings are selfish and will try to make a buck off of anything; the selfless will die unless immune. Oh, and wash your hands, cook your meat, and do not commit adultery. Thank you. A … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Contagion, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Marie Cotillard, movie review, outbreak, Sanaa Lathan, wash your hands, WHO
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Source Code (2011)
Source Code is a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier who wakes up in another man’s body aboard a train that is going to explode…a lot. The premise of this movie is that some government group has discovered and … Continue reading
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Tagged Film, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, movie review, Source code, Vantage Point, Vera Farmiga
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Something Borrowed (2011): The Long & Short of it
The Short Review: This movie sucked! A few good laughs, but no substance. That is all. The Long Review: Something Borrowed is the story of how Rachel is pulled in two different directions when she falls in love with her … Continue reading
Jumping the Broom Movie Review
Jumping the Broom is this…with a wedding. Cover of The Inkwell Source Jumping the Broom tells the story of a young woman, Sabrina Watson (played by Paula Patton) who just wants to fall in love and get married, but always ends … Continue reading
The Social Network
Before the movie The Social Network began to get buzz in Hollywood ahead of its theatrical release, I’d never thought much about the kind of person/personality behind a site like Facebook. Once the movie began to generate the aforementioned buzz, … Continue reading
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Tagged character, cinematography, dialogue, Facebook, Film, good movies, Mark Zuckerberg, movie review, one liners, plot, setting, Social network
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The Other Guys Review
I’ve heard nothing but good things about The Other Guys since it first came out. I wasn’t really in the mood to see another crude comedy, which seems to be the direction of comedies these days with men in them. … Continue reading
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For Colored Girls Review
This post has been a long time coming, partly because it took me a while to sort my feelings of the subject matter from my feelings about the actual movie. I posted in my other blog about how I felt … Continue reading
The Crazies
Perhaps laying on my living room floor while recovering from an allergic reaction all by my lonesome wasn’t the best time to watch The Crazies. I should explain that though I’m crazy about scary movies, the really good ones that … Continue reading
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Tagged Horror, Horror film, movie endings, movie review, movies, The Crazies (2010 film)
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Movie Review: Madea’s Big Happy Family
People don’t cut Tyler Perry any slack. He’s known as the man that any Black (or African-American or whatever we are calling ourselves at that moment) person who wants to be seen as intellectual loves to hate. Why are all … Continue reading
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Tagged bad men, bad women, comedy, family, good men, good women, Mabel Simmons, Madea's Big Happy Family, movie review, movies, relationships, Tyler Perry
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The Wedding Date & Why I Am Not A Critic
I’ve recently moved and have no cable or internet. Luckily, I own a LOT of movies. Unluckily, more than half of them currently reside in another state. Once the mad rush of moving was over, and I had two days … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Adams, Chick Flicks, critics, Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, movie review, Romantic Comedies, Wedding Date
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