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Come with us to the cafe as we continue our Golden Years Block with a review of 1991’s Fried Green Tomatoes. A forty-something-year-old woman befriends an elderly woman at a retirement community, who regales her with a story of two women in the small town she grew up in. With every story the woman begins to uncover a new found confidence and sense of worth.
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Written by: Carol Sobieski and Fannie Flag
Based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag
Starring: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mary-Louise Parker
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Wake up from your naps and join us for our Golden Years Block! We will be kicking it off with a review of 2007’s The Bucket List. While receiving treatment for cancer two very different men become unlikely friends that travel the world, completing adventures they always wanted to have.
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Written by: Justin Zackham
Starring: Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman
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Happy Halloween! Today is the end of our Spooky Season with a review of 2002’s The Ring. A journalist discovers a cursed VHS tape that causes the death of any that view it in seven days. We follow her journey to uncover the source of the footage and save herself and her young son from a terrible fate. We hope everyone has a safe and wonderful spooky evening!
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Written by: Ehren Kruger
Remake of 1998’s Ringu: Directed by Hideo Nakata and Screenplay by Hiroshi Takahashi
Based on the Novel by Koji Suzuki
Starring: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, and Daveigh Chase
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Happy Spooky Season! Come on in, the house is not very warm or cozy, and join us for our review of 1999’s The Haunting. A doctor conducting a study on fear tricks four strangers into staying at a haunted house for research.
Directed by: Jan de Bont
Written by: David Self
Starring: Lili Taylor, Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta Jones, and Owen Wilson
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Happy Spooky Season everyone! Today we continue our ghost movies with a review of 2001’s The Others. In 1945, a woman and her children living in Jersey, discover unseen intruders have infiltrated their island home.
Written and Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionulla Flannigan, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, and Christopher Eccleston
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Happy Spooky Season everyone! Today we are kicking off October with a review of 1996’s horror comedy The Frighteners. A psychic con man who uses the dead to haunt the living finds himself at the center of a supernatural killing spree that is picking off the citizens of a small, sleepy town.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Written by: Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Dee Wallace, Jake Busey, and Jeffrey Combs
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Today is the end of our 4th season! Join us for our M.O.G.W.A.I Awards. We will recap and touch base on a variety of movies we have done over the past year and discuss which we think were the best and which were the worst. Come on in and take a listen!
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Court is in session today with a review of 1996’s crime thriller Primal Fear. A hot shot detective takes on the case of his career. An altar boy is arrested for the murder of Chicago’s beloved Archbishop.
Directed by: Gregory Holt
Written by: Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman
Based on the novel by William Diehl
Starring: Richard Gere, Edward Norton, and Laura Linney
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Join us today for our review of 1992’s My Cousin Vinny. Two ‘youts’ are arrested for a murder they didn't commit while on a road trip. Their only hope? A fast talking New York lawyer with no real experience in the court.
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Written by: Dale Launer
Starring: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne, and Lane Smith
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With the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice release today, we decided to review where it all started, 1988’s haunting adventure, Beetlejuice. A recently deceased couple hires an evil spirit to act as a bio-exorcist to scare off a living family from the home they love.
Directed by: Tim Burton
Written by: Warren Skaaren, Michael McDowell, and Larry Wilson
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara
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Today we finish off our young adult novels block with a review of 2013’s sci-fi adventure Ender’s Game. Fifty years after a devastating alien attack, the human race has begun to train gifted youths in the art of war. Hoping one of these people will be a leader that will finally decimate the extraterrestrial threat once and for all.
Written and Directed by: Gavin Hood
Based on the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, and Haillee Steinfeld
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Today we join the circus and review 2009’s Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant. Two young men have an encounter with a vampire that changes the course of their friendship and lives forever.
Directed by: Paul Weitz
Written by: Brian Helgeland and Paul Weitz
Based on the book series The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan
Starring: Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, and Josh Hutcherson
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Continuing our YA novels block, today we review 2007’s The Golden Compass. Based on the first installment of the His Dark Materials Trilogy, we follow a young girl on the adventure of her life as she attempts to rescue a group of missing children in a fantastical world.
Written and Directed by: Chris Weitz
Based on the book Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Starring: Dakota Blue Richards, Freddie Highmore, Nicole Kidman, Ian McKellen, and Daniel Craig
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Today we begin a journey into young adult novels turned movies failures, and we begin with a review of 2006’s action adventure Eragon. A young man comes into possession of a rare dragon egg which puts him in the sight of a maniacal king, hellbent on destroying any and all possible opposition to his evil reign.
Directed by: Stefen Fangmeier
Written by: Peter Buchman
Based on the book by: Christopher Paolini, Eragon, the first installment of the Inheritance Cycle
Staring: Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Robert Carlyle, Rachel Weisz, Sienna Guillory, and John Malkovich
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We’ve reached episode 200! Today we are taking a break from our normal movie reviews and are discussing various topics and properties we would love to see transferred to other sources of media with our 4th iteration of Dream Reboots. It’s Another Reboot.
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Today we review 1998’s Quest for Camelot. A young woman follows in her fathers foot footsteps to reclaim the mystical sword of Excalibur in order to keep the kingdom of Camelot from the clutches of an evil knight.
Directed by: Frederik Du Chau
Written by: Kirk DeMicco, William Schifrin, Jacqueline Feather, and David Seidler
Based on the book ‘The King’s Damosel’ by: Vera Chapman
Starring: Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, and Pierce Brosnan
Singing: Celine Dion, Andrea Corr, Bryan White, and Steve Perry
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Join us on a fever dream with a review of 1993’s animated adventure We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story. A group of intelligent dinosaurs find themselves in New York City and at the whim of a maniacal ringmaster who wants them as an attraction to scare children in his traveling circus.
Directed by: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells, Dick Zondag, and Ralph Zondag
Written by: John Patrick Shanley
Book by: Hudson Talbott
Starring: John Goodman, Joey Shea, Yeardley Smith, Walter Cronkite, and Martin Short
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Get off my plane… and join us for our review of 1997’s Air Force One. When the President of the United States plane is taken over by a group of radicalists, he becomes the unlikely person with the only chance to stop them.
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Written by: Andrew W. Marlowe
Starring: Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman
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Happy fourth of July weekend! Join us today for our review of 1996’s sci-fi action flick Independence Day! Aliens attack Earth in the days leading up to the Fourth of July, causing a global resistance to stop them.
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Written by: Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin
Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, and many more
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Today we finish our pulp comic movie block with 1996’s action flick The Phantom! A long line of heroes take up the mantle of The Phantom, a seemingly immortal force that fights against evil in all its forms.
Directed by: Simon Wincer
Written by: Jeffrey Boam
Based on the character created by: Lee Falk
Starring: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, James Remar, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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