Four Brothers is Rousing Ride!

Although it tries to be too many things all at the same time, Four Brothers succeed. It succeeds mainly because of the actors, Mark Wahlberg, who plays Bobby (T...read more

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Hustle & Flow - Worth the price of a ticket

Hustle & Flow is a tightly woven tale of a broken down Memphis pimp, DJay, played by Terrence Dashon Howard. (Who can also be seen in Four Brothers, also in the...read more

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Beauty Shop needs a good trim

Beauty Shop is not the worst movie I have seen, but it is in no way the best. The movie, though pleasant, is plagued by improper pacing. The first 25 minutes ar...read more

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Guess Who?...Does it matter?

Guess who, loosely based on the 1967 movie, Guess Who’s Coming to dinner, provides a pleasant diversion for a mid-morning romp. While this movie, with scree...read more

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The Interpreter loses a little in translation

Sitting in the theater, nearly 20 minutes into viewing The Interpreter, I began to wonder if the extended length lately of all the commercials and trailers, whi...read more

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Diary of a Mad Black Woman is an audience pleaser

Diary of a Mad Black Woman, is the film version of Tyler Perry’s stage play of the same name. Tyler is an unconventional playwright, whose works are very fa...read more

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Ray shines a brilliant light on an artists' soul

There is no greater joy than watching an artist in performance of his art, whether he is a painter, a writer, or as in this case an actor. Jamie Foxx's performa...read more

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Stay Away From Sharp Objects - including Blade 2

Hopefully, when you view this movie you won?t be near any sharp objects, lest you be tempted to slit your wrists. When I first heard they were making a sequel t...read more

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The Matrix Reloaded is a load

I have to confess – While I didn’t get to see about 15 minutes of the film, as I fell asleep somewhere around the time that Jada Pinkett-Smith’...read more

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The LadyKillers should have died at Conception

Can someone please tell me what was the point of this movie? This movie is so painfully unfunny; I would undertake a full day of dental work without Novocain, b...read more

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John Q - A soap opera rooted in reality

It came and went in the theaters without notice. Mainly because it followed on the heels of Denzel’s Academy Award winning performance in Training Day. Bu...read more

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New York, New York (Start spreading the news)

I lived in New York for most of my life (37 year) - The thought of living anywhere else, away from loved ones and friends, was a frightening prospect. One alway...read more

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Alero - It's not your father's Oldsmobile

Unfortunately, the Oldsmobile Alero wasn?t very successful in competing with the Honda Accord, Toyota Solara, or the Dodge Stratus - All vehicles in its price c...read more

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Collateral is consistent

With his previous movies - Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989), Far and Away ( 1992), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and Vanilla Sky ( 2001), he played against type, and ...read more

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Godsend is Far From Heavenly

There were once 4 actors whose movies I would attend without consulting word of mouth or critical review: Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Denzel Washington, and Robe...read more

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