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Goodbye Solo – A Movie Review

October 10, 2009 John Blowing Rock, Diana Franco Galindo, ouleymane Sy Savane, Ramin Bahrani, Red West, Winston-Salem

On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol’ boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man’s American dream is just beginning, while the other’s is quickly winding down. I never saw a trailer for it, so it was taking a risk. I liked the movie a lot, Lay not so much.

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Informant!, The – A Movie Review

September 20, 2009September 20, 2009 John ADM, Joel McHale, Mark Whitacer, Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Steven Soderbergh

What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn’t been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. This was another movie Lay and I both enjoyed.

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9 – A Movie Review

September 20, 2009 John 9, Action, Adventure, Alan Oppenheimer, Animation, Shane Acker, SiFi, Tom Kane

The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world’s machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down. But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse. We were both impressed.

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Actors from the Old B and White to Present

September 12, 2009September 10, 2009 John Actors

Here are a series of actors from the old Black and White film days morphing to more current actors. How many of them can you name.

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State of Play – A Movie Review

September 10, 2009September 10, 2009 John Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Kevin Macdonald, Rachel McAdams, Russell Crowe, State of Play

Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party’s contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out. It’s a couple of entertaining hours and whilst it may not be anything new, it’s certainly enjoyable.