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man on fire

Where have all of the movie reviews gone, you might ask? Well, I cut our subscription back to two movies per month in the summer and we rented a couple episodes of The Wire since the last movie we saw, hence the lack of reviews. This was the kind of …

the prestige

Zzzz. This movie wasn’t terribly interesting. It wasn’t terrible, either. Maybe I just don’t find the lives of turn of the century magicians all that interesting. The twist at the end was rather unique (Brian missed it because he fell asleep), but I think they could have cut a lot …

wild hogs

Brian’s parents bought us a “Great Cheap Date” for our anniversary last year. We’ve been wanting to use it ever since, but the timing was never right. Until today. At first, when this movie came out, I thought it was going to bomb, but Brian really wanted to see it …

grizzly man

This was quite the interesting documentary. I don’t think it would’ve been half as good had the main guy been the manly type (the dude was pretty flamboyant for a supposed heterosexual if you ask me). This led to some unintentionally amusing moments. Anyway, if you haven’t heard about this …

the departed

You know us and the mob–there wasn’t any way we weren’t going to like this movie. They did that thing I hate where they say the name of the movie as one of the lines just so you know why they named it that, but this was pretty subtle, so …