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Leaving Las Vegas
So the way I came to find myself in Las Vegas again is, my company is creating a partnership with Cisco, and we must have a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) on staff to qualify. That’s me. We must also…
Review – My Old Lady
★★★☆☆ My Old Lady just had to be on my rental list. When you see that a movie has Maggie Smith in it, you simply have to put it on your list. I mean, even if your only exposure to…
Review – No Escape (2015)
★★☆☆☆ No Escape is a movie which didn’t really work for me. Perhaps I’ve become jaded in my old age? I like Pierce Brosnan. I even like Owen Wilson in many things, but something just didn’t seem to work here….
Review – Spotlight
★★★★★ Spotlight might well be a perfect movie. Journalism is all but dead in America and probably the world. The constant drive to make a fast buck and turn a quarterly profit has decimated the journalism industry. Local papers no…
Review – Sing Street
★★★★☆ Sing Street is absolutely golden. If you are old enough to remember when MTV came on the air and actually played music videos, you have to rent this movie. Sing Street even includes the period correct parochial school teacher…
Review – Shadow Dancer
★★★☆☆ Having been an X-Files fan, I was happy to see Gillian Anderson working in movies. She’s from the Chicago area so there is that attachment as well. I can still remember that Fox News interview with her when the…
Review – Mr. Holmes
★★★☆☆ Mr. Holmes is a sad little movie. I don’t mean to give the impression it was poorly acted, the movie is just sad. The marketing blurb is a work of fiction in and of itself. This is the blurb which…