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Not A Review Of “Just Like Heaven”
So having in recent weeks subjected my wife to “Snowpiercer” (“What kind of train has an aquarium and a nightclub in it?”) and “Ender’s Game” (“All I’ve figured out so far is it’s a bunch of kids...
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Teaser Tuesday 12/16/2014: “Gone Girl
So this week, having finished A Tale of Two Cities: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.* I have now moved...
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Not A Review Of “Gran Torino”
So this week we watched “Gran Torino“, one of Clint Eastwood’s late-career movies that doesn’t go the way you think it’s going to go. In this film, Clint Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a...
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Neither A Review Of “Better Call Saul” Nor “Gone Girl”
So although most of my recent posts have involved formatting, proofing, rejecting, reformatting, reproofing, and re-rejecting the print editions of Shards and Ravels, killing trees isn’t the only thing...
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Not A Review Of “Lucy”
So a month or so ago, we saw “Lucy“, an action film in which the titular character, played by Scarlett Johansson, accidentally receives an overdose of a new illegal psychotropic drug, develops...
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Fifty Shades Of Psycho
Wife (watching “Fifty Shades of Grey” trailer after reading humorous Dave Barry article about it): “This looks terrible.” Me: “Let me see.” (takes laptop to watch trailer) Me: “Yeah, it does look...
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Not A Review Of “Léon: The Professional“
So having recently achieved an unexpectedly positive response to the Luc Besson film “Lucy” — my wife stayed awake for fully 45 minutes! — I decided to bump up another Besson film that had been...
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Not A Review Of “Birdman”
So over the last week or so we watched the film “Birdman“, in which Michael Keaton plays a washed-up actor who used to play an avian-themed superhero named Batman Birdman. Not “Batman”. Also not...
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Not A Review Of “Whiplash”
So recently we watched “Whiplash“, in which J. Jonah Jameson, having tired of terrorizing cub reporters, decides to start terrorizing musicians instead. “You can’t HANDLE the tempo!” Now before...
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Not A Review Of “Maleficent”
So recently we watched “Maleficent“, in which the titular villain from “Sleeping Beauty” gets the Wicked treatment: Now I didn’t tell my wife much about the movie; I just popped in the disc and started...
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Not A Review Of “Avengers: Age of Ultron”
So this week we (meaning I) finally got around to watching “Avengers: Age of Ultron“. Q: How many Avengers does it take to stop one renegade robot?A: All of them, plus a few extra. My wife, not...
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Not A Review Of “Jessica Jones”
What’s this? Two “not a review” posts in a row? Inconceivable! But true. You see, some may remember that a couple of years ago my wife got hooked on crystal meth “Breaking Bad“, AKA “The Best Show...
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Not A Review Of “Ant-Man”
So recently we watched “Ant-Man“, in which Jack Colton gives Phoebe’s boyfriend/(spoiler alert)husband Mike a suit that allows him to shrink down to the size of an insect, while Kate glowers...
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Not A Review Of “Jurassic World”
So this week we’ve been watching “Jurassic World“, in which things get a little out of hand at the Wild Animal Park Safari Park Jurassic Park Jurassic World theme park, a lovely place which looks like...
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That Never Happened
So this week, as the school year drew to a close and my wife’s classroom prepared to shut down (forever, due to the school’s closure), she was looking for something to occupy the kids during their...
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Not A Review Of “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”
So the other week we I watched “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter“. Me: <shows NetFlix envelope to wife> Wife: “What’s that?” Me: “‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’.” Wife: “Uh-huh.” Later: Me:...
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Not A Review Of “Midnight Special”
So this week we started watching the film “Midnight Special“, in which a little boy goes on a fun road trip with his dad and his dad’s friend. Or something like that. Have I seen you lately? My wife...
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Who’s That?
So last week we (mostly me) watched “Trouble with the Curve,” in which Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams work through their father/daughter issues, Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake work through their career...
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Not A Review Of “Deadpool”
So this week, we (meaning I) watched “Deadpool“, the (other) superhero movie featuring a foul-mouthed anti-hero who dispenses insults and jokes almost as fast as he kills bad guys. Or, as my wife put...
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Not A Review Of “Event Horizon”
So October seems to have been my month for getting caught up on movies I should have seen long ago, but didn’t. A few weeks ago, it was 1997’s “Contact“; and on Halloween, I finally got around to...
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