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This is a spoiler from the start, like from now, so don’t read until you’ve seen the movie. You’ve been warned. Every movie has its rules and the one rule that’s made abundantly clear at the end of Don’t Worry … Continue reading →

So that was a surprise. But as I said in my previous post, he was going to die either by someone’s hand or death’s, and that the conflict was between Logan and Kendall. I would go further to say that … Continue reading →

I’m curious if I will be right, that this show can only be resolved with the father dying either at Kendall’s hand or not, with Kendall in charge. At the end of the last season, Kendall had nearly completely broken … Continue reading →

Well I usually like to credit the authors but this is a board and video game adapted into real motion pictures. This seems to be happening everywhere — or the opposite. Avatar and Star Wars, for example, are now Disney … Continue reading →

The Quiet Girl. This one actually had me crying at the end. But unfortunately, almost nothing happens. It is a subtle movie — quiet, like its title. A young girl is sent to live with some foster parents because she … Continue reading →

The Forger, by Maggie Peron, based on the memoir by Ciona Schaumhaus. The Forger was also the name of a movie starring Lauren Bacall and Josh Hutcherson, two actors that I could never imagine had ever starred in a film … Continue reading →

A lot has been said about Brendan Fraser’s performance as a 600 pound man trapped in his apartment somewhere in Idaho. I don’t think more needs to be added by me, but after seeing it a second time, I realized … Continue reading →

I’m writing this review to purge my feelings. I don’t know why I thought a movie about a donkey on a journey was going to end on an upbeat note. Maybe it’s because we’re taught by Disney to expect upbeat … Continue reading →

This movie could work easily as pure fiction, but it is based on the author’s real life experience in deciding to become a marine, given that his choices in life are bleak. In reality, Elegance Bratton has told people that … Continue reading →

Back when I still had a writers group, or maybe it was in a class, we were talking about the absolute glut of books and movies about vampires. It began, probably, with Ann Rice, but really Bram Stoker and the … Continue reading →