WATCH NOW “Happy Gilmore” is a tale filled with lots of violence. Since it is centered around golf, it is labled as a comedy for some reason. The movie, which is the latest of a long line of Adam Sandler movies, features Gilmore (Sandler) as a kid who locks his heart and soul into hockey […]
WATCH NOW While on vacation in Las Vegas, I read Dean Koontz’s “Odd Thomas” novel and found it very enjoyable. I believed that someday it would make a great movie, or even a franchise as it did in book form. But Stephen Sommers proved me wrong. “Odd Thomas” is about a seemingly average fry cook
This tender tale takes a turn when a woman meets a man who took an impossible vow. First things first, he is impossible to remember even after you try. You’ve been married for four years yes, he can remember, and yes, they are happily married, but the woman, she cannot remember him or the title
WATCH NOW Let the Right One In is a vampire movie, but like with everything else, it is not what you think. It is, and I’m sorry to say this, dully dread. It treats vampires as serious threats the same way Murnau and Herzog’s versions of Nosferatu do which is very serious indeed. It is
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WATCH NOW “Baby Boom” centers on an affluent woman, a yuppie, who one day gets the cutest toy ever. A baby daughter. At the start, she is not thrilled to engage with her new toy, but eventually she begins to adore it. In fact, it inspires her to get new ‘toys’ such as a farmhouse
WATCH NOW While he may be an excellent sailor Antwone Fisher has a bad temper which drags him to the office of the base psychiatrist, Dr Jerome Davenport. He suffers from selective mutism. Dr Davenport says that he can wait and someone will talk to him eventually. According to naval protocol, the physician is obliged
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WATCH NOW The general attitude towards musicals is that they are bright and pleasant, fitting for the eyes. Instead of documentaries, the modern day musical captures a cheerier tone, like in The Glee Show, or in movies like Hairspray and Chicago, the last musical that came out of Hollywood and was nominated for an Oscar.
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WATCH NOW “Amore” most certainly captures a certain essence of romance as captured by Dean Martin, “When the moon hits your eye, like a big a pizza pie.” A unique quality about “Moonstruck” is arguably its tone. Most reviews make it seem like an ethnic comedy. While it is one, it also incorporates a bittersweet
WATCH NOW From the trailers, I anticipated “Doc Hollywood” would lean more toward a comedy. While it certainly is a comedy, I was taken aback by how it unfolded into a love story. And what a love story it is! It’s one where the lovers are fully aware of the reasons that could cause them
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WATCH NOW Cedar Rapids, 2021. In the City of Cedar Rapids, Carter a police officer is married to school teacher Amelia Summerland and they are both looking forward to having children but then tragedy strikes. During a family outing, Amelia suffers a brain aneurism and is taken to the hospital where she sinks into a
