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Movie: Green Zone

I wanted to see “Green Zone” with Matt Damon since I saw the first preview a few months back. When I finally had the opportunity to watch it there was only one theater showing it. This made me wonder if the move had made an early exit due to not being very good. That assumption [...]

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Review: The Future We Will Create: Inside TED

Since Netflix knows we love documentaries, it put this documentary, “The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED” on our queue. We haven’t had a good run of movies lately with “Into the Wild” and “Rocket Science” being total duds. This, however, was a nice change. The documentary is hosted by Daphne Zuniga [...]

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August Rush – Puh-leeze

We watched August Rush tonight and couldn’t help ourselves from fast-forwarding through half of it. I usually don’t post about movie’s that I didn’t like, but this one was decidedly bad. The movie’s plot consists of unrealistic scenarios, fatherly types acting terribly, and twists of fate that serve to aggravate the viewer more than help [...]

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If You Liked ‘Lost in Translation’…

…then you’d like ‘Broken English’. We had an early evening tonight (read: no babysitter), so after dinner we took a walk (Ace really loves the Baby Bjorn) and ended up at Blockbuster. We got two movies – ‘The Good Shepherd’ and ‘Broken English’. Amanda had heard that the local reviewer, Larry Ratliff, really enjoyed the [...]

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