Articles for category: Movies

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Thirteen Days (Movie Review)

Thirteen days. Thirteen days of fear and tension. Thirteen days of worldwide political and military crisis. Thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics stood “eyeball-to-eyeball” in a confrontation that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The “Cuban Missile Crisis,” as history ...

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Top 100 Best Animated Movies

This is my list of the top 100 animated movies. Choosing the top 100 was really tough, and since my opinions of movies seem to change on a daily basis, it was hard to put these in a particular order. I know plenty of people will disagree with the arrangement and I’ve probably left some ...

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Shrek 2 Summary and Review

Shrek 2 premiered in 2004 and features all of the original characters except for Lord Farquaad who ended up being eaten by a dragon in the first movie. Additional cast members are Julie Andres as Queen Lillian and John Cleese as King Harold, both of whom are Fiona’s parents. Antonio Banderas is Puss in Boots ...

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“Revolutionary Road” (2008): Choosing Life

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as Frank and April Wheeler in “Revolutionary Road” (IMDb), directed by Sam Mendes and based on Richard Yates’s 1961 book of the same title. Yet Frank and April’s relationship is so different from that of Jack and Rose in “Titanic” (1997). Thanks to the excessive foul language, plus April’s ...

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Eight Little-Known Facts About Making Movies with Live Animals

The movie, “We Bought A Zoo,” was not the first to merge live wild animals into the movie’s production. In just about every movie released each year, there is a live animal working as a pet, as a part of the scenery or as one of the main characters. Despite the entertainment value, movie productions ...

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The True Story of the Bell Witch from the Movie An American Haunting

The recently released movie, “An American Haunting” stars Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland as Lucy and John Bell. In the opening, the audience is told that this is the only recorded death due to a haunting. The movie takes some license of the real story, for entertainment value. However, the Bell Witch story is a ...

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Raven Symone: America’s Sweetheart From The Cosby Show

I can remember watching Raven Symone in the late 1980s as a young child who took the country by storm as the youngest member of the cast of the beloved “Cosby Show” waaaay back in 1989. Now, my nine-year-old daughter, Tia, is a Raven fan who can’t get enough of her extremely hilarious, Disney Channel ...

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Best Michael Cera Movie Performances

Michael Cera is a Canadian actor who’s gotten popular after portraying George-Michael Bluth on the short-lived “Arrested Development.” He’s acted mostly in movies since then and has made quite the name for himself. The following movies are the best five movies that Michael Cera has been in. 5. “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” Nick is ...

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2006 Summer Movies Roundup

The summer movie season for 2006 is now officially over and the results shows that while there was an improvement over 2005 the numbers were still not what were expected. As is usually the case moviegoers were inundated from May to August with a plethora of remakes/sequels, big budget action films and kids movies. Forty-six ...