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orphan

This movie was ok, but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. For one thing, they kept playing “scary” music and then nothing would happen. For another, the setup for the actual scary stuff was at least over half of the running time. Being the Halloween season, I was …

from dusk till dawn

After spending the afternoon at a pig roast, we came home to a Movie and Margarita Night. We kicked off our Halloween-themed month of movies with the action-horror flick From Dusk Till Dawn. This movie was written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriguez. If you need more information …

hot shots! part deux

Jake wanted me to add the Hot Shots! movies to our queue. I did just that. He wanted to watch Hot Shots! for this month’s Family Movie Night. So, of course, I accidentally moved the 2nd one to the top of our queue rather than the 1st one. Luckily, since …

up in the air

I’m a little behind on my reviews as we watched this last weekend. I thought this was a pretty good movie except for the ending. But, a good ending is important for a movie, don’t you think? George Clooney was his usual awesome self, but I found the ending to …

true romance

This was a pretty good flick. It was written by Quentin Tarantino and is perhaps my favorite movie by him. There was a lot going on–action, romance, thriller, crime. So few movies have this much going on. My favorite character was played by Gary Oldman–he’s quite the versatile actor (I …