Movies We Watch

This was Danny Trejo’s film, everyone else was just a supporting character. Amazingly some great performances were given by some really  not great actors. Steven Segal was perfect in his part with an over the top death scene that you just have to love as an actor. Don Johnson got to play an unbelievable dick [...]

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Wow. Roarke deserved every award and accolade he got for this role. Not only did you love the guy and hate the guy, but he was in such amazing shape. The performance was undeniably one of the best I have seen in a long time. His interactions with anyone that wasn’t a wrestler were sad [...]

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I understand why this film won Oscars. Great story, great acting, well paced, visually interesting. I cared about these people. I didn’t want the ending I knew was coming to happen. Penn was understated and really inspiring in this part. But then he is a really great actor. And after vowing to never watch another [...]

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Wow, quite a ride in this film. The CIA and the FBI not having any idea what is going on with each other, a secret CIA operative (so secret only one agent knows about him) infiltrating a terrorist organization, good guys and bad guys sometimes being the same guy. And Don Cheadle giving an amazing [...]

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I have seen a lot of films that were nominated or even won Academy Awards and I could not figure out why they had even been nominated. But this film deserved the award and any other that it got. The story was told through flash backs to a young orphans life and the people he [...]

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This charming documentary follow the sweetest little couple (a librarian and postal worker) and the fact that they are major movers and shakers in the NYC art community. They have been collecting art since the 50′s when they married and had the rule that it had to be affordable and fit in their apartment. Amazing [...]

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How can you not root for a Michael Cera character? You want him to get the girl, the RIGHT girl. Things have to work out for his characters or there just really is no justice in the world. And in this film he does. They love the same things, they connect despite ex’s getting in [...]

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This was a touching film about the toll that Alzheimer’s disease can take on a couple. The inner cutting of the lead up to the hospitalization, mixed with the hospital footage (especially of her connecting with someone else and not knowing her own husband) and the footage of the connection the husband finally made with [...]

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