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to live and die in l.a.

This was a pretty good movie that we watched on Brian’s recommendation (he saw it when it originally came out in the mid 80s). This crime drama starred a young Willem Dafoe as a counterfeiter who was wanted by the Secret Service. It had a great chase scene in it …

blue ruin

I read an article on the best movies of 2014 or some such time period and this one looked interesting. It was available on Netflix streaming and I didn’t have anything going on last night, so I decided to watch it. This was a revenge film, but not in the …

divergent

The three of us did a Family Movie Night last night and watched this movie. For what it was, it was fine. On a scale of Ender’s Game to The Hunger Games, it fell in between. Apparently there is a sequel, which we will be watching. Jake read the first …

child of god (movie)

It was a Cormac McCarthy kind of weekend. This was a better adaptation of the novel than the movie we watched on Thanksgiving, but was nowhere near the level of No Country for Old Men or The Road. A number of key scenes were left out, which was rather disappointing, …