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My Sister’s Keeper

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When I first saw a preview for this film, it showed Anna refusing to donate her kidney to her dying sister. I couldn’t believe there could be a character so selfish.  If one of my sisters was dying, I would definitely donate a kidney to keep her alive! So, I was prepared to hate Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin); however, I ended up hating her mother, Sara Fitzgerald … [Read more...] about My Sister’s Keeper

G-Force

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This action packed 3-D animated film, Jerry Bruckheimer's first, is centered on an elite squad of highly trained, genetically engineered guinea pigs voiced by Tracy Morgan (Blaster), Sam Rockwell (Darwin), and Penelope Cruz (Juarez) and Speckles, a mole voiced by Nicolas Cage. Zach Galifianakis stars as the scientist who is about to lose his Homeland Security grant for turning … [Read more...] about G-Force

Death at a Funeral

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"My father was an exceptional man!" British farce comedy at its finest, this is not pretentious and annoying like so so many other British scripts, you know the ones I mean - Four Weddings and a Funeral, the Bridget Jones series, anything starring Hugh Grant opposite another British lead.  This was a guy's comedy, it is chock full of every type of humor imaginable, and … [Read more...] about Death at a Funeral

The Hurt Locker

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Over the last few years, we have been inundated with movies about the Iraq War; "In the Valley of Elah", "Stop-Loss", and Brian DePalma's atrocious "Redacted", among others. They've been, for the most part, preachy, heavy handed polemics and they all dropped dead at the Box Office. I'm of the opinion that the movie going public just isn't interested in movies about the Iraq … [Read more...] about The Hurt Locker