While I will admit to not caring much about the inner workings of the Catholic Church, especially involving its hierarchy and Papal intricacies, I will also admit that a good movie can be made of just about any subject.  In […]

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A friend and I were discussing actor Liam Neeson the other day.  Still going strong at more than 70, Neeson is an actor who lends an unmistakable gravitas and believability to the characters he portrays.  Often the scripts he chooses […]

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Having enjoyed the first two “Quiet Place” monster movies, with a few reservations, I was really looking forward to this origin story.  I think it succeeds pretty well, especially in terms of how the cataclysm affects a small group of […]

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Allegedly based on real events, this comedy-action-horror movie is a broad fictionalization of what actually transpired in rural Georgia back in 1985.  Reflecting the tenor of our times the filmmakers have turned an almost meaningless footnote of history into a […]

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I recorded this Canadian film on my DVR and kept it there for about a year, totally expecting a comedy about a couple trying to control their cussedness before welcoming a new baby (they can hear in the womb, you […]

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For the sake of completeness I finally capitulated and sat through Space Jam: A New Legacy, the sequel to Space Jam (1996), a film I saw once, and once was enough.  Now I can say the same for this unnecessary follow-up. Malcolm […]

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The genre of Westerns has been around for more than a century; I have seen estimates than more than half of all American movies ever made have been westerns.  I have doubts about that, but the genre has been popular […]

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