Movie review: Herbie Fully Loaded
Another summer remake but really not a bad movie. Robin and I took JJ and Hannah to the movie and the love it. We actually have two of the original Herbie movies on DVD already so they knew who herbie was. Herbie is rescued from a junkyard where he is getting ready to go into the crusher and is...
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Book review: Duel In The Sun
John Brant has always been one of my favorite Runner's World writers. In this book he authors the most memorable moment for me in elite running, the 1982 Boston Marathon duel between penis Beardsley and Alberto Salazar. Brant's writing style is exquisite. He doesn't succumb to distracting styles...
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Book Reivew: The Plot Against America
Written by Phillip Roth (who won the 1998 Pulitizer Prize for Fiction), "The Plot Against America" is a historical fiction novel. The premise of the book is that Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR in 1940 on an isolationist and somewhat anit-Semitic platform. He draws on Lindbergh's, Henry Ford's and...
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Mini-Review: The Station Agent (2003)
Not to be harsh, but I only knew this movie as the one starring a dwarf where I believe Patricia Clarkson was nominated for an Oscar. I wasn't too interested in seeing it at the time, but since I'm trying to see all those critically acclaimed movies of 2003 so I can finally finish my top 10 list...
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DVD Review: Back to the Future Trilogy
Since I have already reviewed each of the movies separately, this will be more of a review of the DVD set than the films. But, to give a little bit of background: The Back to the Future trilogy are action/adventure/comedy/science fiction movies that deal with time travel. The films started with...
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Movie Review: Men in Black II (2002)
A film by Barry Sonnenfeld After 1997 s wildly successful Men in Black film, someone apparently decided that it would be a good idea to make a sequel. After all, the director and the two stars are returning, what could possibly go wrong? A great deal, as it turns out. The first film covered...
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Movie Review: The Fog of War (2003)
A film by Errol Morris The Fog of War won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (2003). The subject: Robert McNamara. McNamara, if you are not aware of who he is, was the Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This puts him at the forefront of the Vietnam War...
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Movie Review: Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
A film by Andrew Jarecki This documentary was not what I had expected. I knew that this was a documentary about a family who had been accused of sexually abusing children. That was all I knew about this film, and my expectations were only that this was going to be a difficult film to watch....
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Movie Review: Back to the Future Part III (1990)
A film by Robert Zemeckis Back to the Future Part III is the third and concluding chapter to the Back to the Future trilogy. For many years this was my least favorite film in the trilogy, but watching it again for the first time in years I have new appreciation for it. Back to the Future...
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Movie Review: Winged Migration
A film by Jacques Perrin What we have here is a documentary about birds in flight. This is a simplistic description, but an accurate one. This documentary film follows the life of migratory birds from the beginning of their flight all the way through to the end, which is really just the return...
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