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Best Half of a Movie!

Best Half of a Movie!

Friday, June 26, 2009 No Comments

Sometimes you have a movie that you really like to watch…but just not the whole thing.  You know the kind, maybe the ending itself ruins the movie, or maybe the big reveal at the end makes what seemed like an thoughful intricate movie into something less.  Thats what Mike and Jeanne are going to talk [...]

Terminator Salvation movie review   aka Terminator 4

Terminator Salvation movie review aka Terminator 4

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 No Comments

…Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight…
October 26th, 1984….thats when I first read those words on the opening screen of a new movie at the local AMC theater.  In the course of one [...]

Star Trek (2009) our movie review

Star Trek (2009) our movie review

Sunday, May 10, 2009 No Comments

Star Trek is one of the most successful failures in television history. Today, over 30 years since its original television series, Star Trek is playing somewhere in the world, every hour of every day. With multiple spin off shows, and two decades worth of feature movies, its no surprise that another movie has [...]

X-men Origins: Wolverine movie review

X-men Origins: Wolverine movie review

Saturday, May 2, 2009 3 Comments

X-men Origins: Wolverine

When your trying to figure out how best to take advantage of a successful movie franchise without wearing your audience too thin, a prequel may be your best bet…as long as it isn’t Friday the 13th.  Taking a favorite character from the X-men world, Wolverine provides the audience with an action packed sarcasm [...]

Slumdog Millionaire movie reivew

Slumdog Millionaire movie reivew

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 No Comments

Every once in a while, we do something in our lives that changes every else in ways we usually don’t understand at the time.  It is these little things that add up to what we call out lifetime, and while one brief moment may be forgotten, its effects ripple throughout our life and the lives [...]

The Secret Life of Bees and Knowing movie reviews

The Secret Life of Bees and Knowing movie reviews

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 No Comments

This week Mike and Jeanne review The Secret Life of Bees, and Mike give you his solo take on the new Niocholas Cage movie, Knowing.  When a young teenager runs away from home, she starts a journey in life that leads to dicoveries not only about the world, but also about herself, Dakota Fanning and [...]

Race to Witch Mountain movie reivew

Race to Witch Mountain movie reivew

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 No Comments

Listen to our review of Race to Witch Mountain, the latest attempt by Disney to rekindle some of its past glory.  This time we take Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson along for the ride, and the two kids a a tad older.  Sure the plot is a bit predictable…but what do you expect for a kids [...]

The Watchmen movie review

The Watchmen movie review

Monday, March 9, 2009 1 Comment

The watchmen is a movie translation of a long running and much beloved comic franchise.  A member of the Watchmen has been killed, and the remaining members are in jeapardy, all the while the threat of nuclear war looms.  Follow these former heros as they struggle with their humanity, their nemisis, and their very [...]

Lakeview Terrace, movie review

Sunday, March 8, 2009 No Comments

Mike and Jeanne brave the tap the dvd library this week.  Moving into a new neighborhood can be a lot of work.  Getting to know the neighbors comes with the territory, and you sometimes find that one of them, isn’t exactly what you had in mind.  Samuel L Jackson stars in this creep fest of [...]

Seven Pounds, movie review

Sunday, March 8, 2009 No Comments

Seven Pounds (2008)

When Will Smith acts, Mike and Jeanne Listen;
Seven Pounds has been described as relentlessly depressing, and that isn’t a completely unfair statement.  This is not a comedy, or even your standard drama.  Seven Pounds takes your emotions, and shows you just how powerful a movie can be.  To call it relentlessly depressing is [...]

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