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Review – Heist (2001)

★★★★☆ Heist is a well done movie. What it lacks in special effects it makes up for with story line and quality acting. Rather than relying on one big name to carry the story they gathered an ensemble cast and everybody delivers. Heist is something of a noir style film.…

Roland HughesJune 13, 2019January 30, 2021

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Review – Blood Diamond (2006)

★★★★☆ Ordinarily movies intent on invoking some social change focus so much on the change they end up being sucky movies. On rare occasions we get a true gem, no pun intended. The three main actors, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou do absolutely astounding work in Blood Diamond.…

Roland HughesJune 12, 2019January 30, 2021

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Review – Shakes the Clown

★☆☆☆☆ Shakes the Clown happened to be on a list somewhere. Some men’s magazine posted a list of 100 or so movies they thought every guy should have seen in their life already. Guess I’m not doing bad because I had seen over half of them. I am deeply saddened…

Roland HughesJune 11, 2019January 30, 2021

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Review – Two Weeks Notice

★★★★☆ I know, Two Weeks Notice has been out forever. Movies in the romance category have to be out there for a long time before I get around to watching them. Surprisingly Two Weeks Notice was a lot less chick-flick and much more comedy than the description lets on. It…

Roland HughesJune 10, 2019January 30, 2021

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Review – The Giver

★★★★☆ How can anyone not like a movie which has both Meryl Streep and The Dude (Jeff Bridges) in it? If you are a writer of dystopian fiction or social experimentation this is an all you can eat buffet of ideas. A multi-generational socially engineered society with automated drones making…

Roland HughesJune 9, 2019January 30, 2021

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Review – The History Boys

★★★★★ I actually own a copy of History Boys. It was a Big Lots discount bin find. Honestly, I’m glad I stumbled into History Boys. There is no way I would have added it to my rental list given the description. An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys…

Roland HughesJune 9, 2019February 12, 2021

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Review – The Factory

★★★★★ I must confess up front that I seem to always like John Cusack in a movie. I was kind of shocked to stroll by the under $5 discount bin and see The Factory on top of the pile. Odd that I had never heard of The Factory. Naturally it…

Roland HughesJune 8, 2019January 30, 2021