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Review – The Hunting Party
★★★★★ The Hunting Party is probably the best movie you’ve never heard of. It appears Richard Gere has been making Indie type films which go straight to DVD. Thanks to my monthly rental subscription I’m actually watching a lot more…
Review – The Fifth Estate
★★★★☆ Some day Benedict Cumberbatch will do a bad job of acting, but I don’t want to see that day. Mr. Cumberbatch does an absolutely astounding job of playing Julian Assange. The supporting actors do their part to help sell…
Review – The Crew (2000)
★★★★☆ The Crew is one of the funnier made for television gangster movies I have seen. The premise is hilarious. A bunch of gangsters end up in a run down retirement home because it is all they can afford. Ironically…
Review – The Fault in Our Stars
★★★★★ I suspected this would be a chick flick, but, I really like the actress (Shailene Woodley) in it and the movie theme song drew me in. The writer in me loved the hermit writer with a bad attitude and…
Review – Zero Dark Thirty
★★★★★ Zero Dark Thirty broke a lot of personal barriers for me. Rare is the time I will plunk down $10 or more to see a movie in the theater. Even rarer is the time I walk out feeling I…
A Martian Farted!
It’s not just little kids and vulgar people who appear to be interested in farts. Scientists are fascinated with them. In fact they’ve had us spend millions, perhaps billions of dollars to be the first to document a Martian fart,…
Those Norman Rockwell Mornings
I catch quite a bit of flack for choosing to live in Illinois. People claim it is the most corrupt state in the union because we have put more politicians in prison than any other state. Well, it’s not. We…