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Movie Review: Fracture (2007)
From director Gregory Hoblit, comes this excellent psychological thriller, featuring powerhouse performances from Academy Award winner, Sir Antony Hopkins and the twice nominated Ryan Gosling. Hopkins plays Ted Crawford an Aeronautical Engineer and Gosling plays the successful assistant district attorney, Willy Beachum. The story is set in Los Angeles. The plot begins on a familiar Read more
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Movie Review: In a Lonely Place(1950)
‘In a Lonely Place’ is a movie adaptation of Dorothy B. Hughes’s book of the same name. While Casablanca and the Maltese Falcon are Humphrey Bogart’s most famous movies, ‘In a Lonely Place’ is another classic film, featuring the maestro in a deliciously wicked role. This time he plays Dixon ‘Dix’ Steel(I know! Lets me Read more
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Movie Review: All the King’s Men(1949)
‘All the King’s men’ is a movie, adapted from a Pulitzer prize winning book of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. It tells the story of the rise and fall of a fictitious politician Willie Stark, and is based on former Louisiana governor, Huey Long. While another movie adaptation of the book, made in Read more
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Movie Review: The Woman in Green (1945)
Most of my readers, I am sure are familiar with Sherlock Holmes, arguably the most famous sleuth of all time, created by the one and only, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This classic movie, starring Rathborne and Bruce as Holmes and Watson, has a screenplay that borrows elements of the plot from two works of Doyle, Read more
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Podcast Review: The Dropout: Season 2
Please read my review of season 1 if you have not heard the Season 1 podcast of dropout. Season 2 picks up the story of the indicted Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, facing a trial in San Jose CA, a trial filed by the Securities of Exchange commission. After being indicted on several charges, Elizabeth Read more
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Movie Review: Rashomon (1950)
Rashomon, is a psychological thriller, a crime story, a phenomenon, a trendsetter and a timeless masterpiece. It is and will continue be discussed analyzed, dissected and imitated for decades to come. It is a movie that questions the morality of humanity itself, and looks into the human soul for answers. The Japanese film would become Read more
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