Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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Guest Contributor: Rashaun “DJ Reezey®” Williams EARTH TO ECHO
Traveling alone through dirt roads and dark highways, the three best friends discover the meaning of courage, showing their bravery time and time again. Earth to Echo had many important messages for kids, encouraging them to follow their dreams, value true friendships, and show heroism even when you feel defeated...
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Young Love: The Fault in Our Stars
Both young actors, Woodley as Hazel and her Divergent co-star Ansel Elgort as Augustus Waters, give truly likable performances as 17 and 18 year-old cancer survivors, who never deny that life has dealt them each a bad hand, but manage to fall in love like any young couple - starting with, will he or won't he call, flirtatious texts, hanging out and making an everyday word like "Okay" take on relationship meaning...
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Mature Love: WORDS and PICTURES
When Marcus, already attracted to Delsanto, hears her disparaging marks about words vs pictures, he throws down a gauntlet and challenges her to prove "a picture is worth a thousand words" but mostly he just wants a reason to connect with her, even if it's in mock battle...
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Cavalcade of Mutants: X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
My new favorite Mutant is Quicksilver (Evan Peters). He's super, crazy fast, so much so he has time to not only stop a bullet, but play with it during its trajectory. The rescue of Eric/Magneto from the Pentagon features the crackerjack, swiftness of Quicksilver, at the end of the scene the audience at my screening exploded into loud clapping appreciation.
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Art, History, Race, Romance, Politics: BELLE
by Le Anne Lindsay I’m sure there are people born and raised in Nebraska who are Francophiles, Gingers who love the sun and Dutch who wear Kimonos and collect things from the Ming Dynasty and on and on, you never know why people have an affinity to, or identify with, things that don’t seem to fit who they are or should be. I’ve always been drawn to the British Aristocracy and fancy the idea of living in a sprawling country estate. I began reading historical Harlequin Romance novels about the age of 11 or 12 and absolutely loved all the etiquette, intrigue, wealth, entertaining and most importantly, no one worked.…