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THE TREE OF LIFE
Its no easy feat collecting one’s thoughts after watching Terrence Malik’s latest confounding epic of a movie: it is truly mind-blowing. What little plot there is focuses on the O’Brien’s, a rather ordinary middle-class family in small town America in the 1950’s. Mr. O’Brien struggles with conflicting ideals: he is a strict disciplinarian of a…
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MARGIN CALL
In less than 24 hours a major Wall Street Investment Firm (that seemed awfully like Lehman Brothers) jolts from success to near death in a story that would have been inconceivable before this current financial free fall started in 2008 … or maybe not. The meltdown starts when in the midst of a round of…
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QUEEN OF HEARTS
It’s not often that the main character of a movie is so annoying that I just want to slap her legs hard in the hope that she will stop being so irritating, but this is one such case. And in fact now I think about the rest of the cast, I would probably want to slap…
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TYRANNOSAUR
Joseph is a tormented self-destructive and angry drunken old man whose sad life seems one violent episode after another. One day he runs into a Charity Thrift Store to avoid a mob and encounters Hannah the Manager, who as devout Christian. offers to pray for him. On a subsequent visit he soon discovers that Hannah’s…
