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Silver Bells Review

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  Hello everyone, I know it's early for a Christmas movie, probably because it isn't even Thanksgiving yet.  But I thought I would give this a try.  I was feeling down and wanted a Christmas movie that would get me into the holiday cheer, and I found this on Up Faith and Family.  Now, this is a film from 2013 that I believe was a TV movie starring Bruce Boxleitner from Tron and Tron Legacy fame.  He stars as a sports reporter for the local Michigan station that is located near Central Michigan University.  This reporter is at one of his son's basketball games and gets in a tussle with a referee.  This ultimately gets him kicked out of the game, and he needs to go to court.  Part of his court sentence is going to help out with the Salvation Army during the Christmas season. He is demoted because of his actions, becoming only a reporter who interviews people, but he can no longer broadcast on the air.  This leads to some self-searching and tryi...
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By any means

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Hey, everyone, it is Lance here with Night at the Movies.  Tonight, I just watched the film By Any Means.  It takes place during the 1960s, after the 3 civil rights workers were killed in Mississippi.     Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays the role of Wayne Strider, an FBI agent from Chicago who had recently moved back to his hometown, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  He is assisted by a Mob hitman, Greg Scarpa, paid for by the FBI to investigate the murders happening around the city of Hattiesburg and other areas where African Americans were trying to gain the right to vote.   But the Ku Klux Klan has other plans; they terrorize the surrounding area, not wanting any African Americans to vote.  Kill and burn the houses of residents wanting to help those in the area that feel they are being taken advantage of by having to pay a poll tax in order to vote.     So Greg Scarpa has to take matter into his own hands in order to find out who is res...
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Heart of the Beast

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Heart of the Beast This past weekend I saw Heart of the Beast, the new Brad Pitt film.  This film analyzes the connection between man, dog, and/or pet.  Where does our relationship end with our pets?  When is the end?  Are they part of the family, or do they just hang around?  What do we know?  I don't really know what we know.   This film shows that the relationship between man and dog can be a complicated and deep one.  How far are you willing to sacrifice your life for your pet? Our pets depend on us more than we know.  They are like our children.  How far would we go for our pets? This film is full of emotion and survival instincts.  Mark Wahlberg plays an Iraqi vet who has come back with his dog after retirement.  They are in Alaska discovering nature on a seaplane when a storm is coming; they therefore decide to leave and fly through the weather to beat the storm.  Wahlberg's character has a heart attack, and th...
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Revisiting Care Bears the Movie

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Hello everyone!  I know you may think I am off my rocker for wanting to do a movie review about a movie I watched when I was 7 years old, but here it goes.  I was recently shopping on eBay late at night, and I came across this movie really cheap.  So I thought, "Why not? Maybe I can get some answers to questions about why this movie was so evil when I was a kid?   The film starts out with the care bears are trying to help kids in the world learn how to show their feelings and want to share them with others. Also how to put others first instead of thinking about ourselves.  But there is a boy and he finds a book and the book promises that it will help him and make him rich.  But then the book tries to take over and wants him to do things that aren't right.  I know what my mom's intention was but the story is not about a boy and an evil book he wants to serve it is about good conquering over evil.  Also how our Ego and subconscious will try to ...
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Mark Felt

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  Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House  I know many of you aren't old enough to remember the Watergate scandal, but maybe you are.  It has always fascinated me, and one of the silent people in the background was Mark Felt.  If you haven't heard of him, he was the associate deputy director to J. Edgar Hoover.   This film demonstrates the will and the courage this man had to do what was right.  Liam Neeson plays Mark Felt, whom we all know from the Taken series and many other films.  But this time he isn't playing an action star; he is playing a man with conviction.  A man at odds with his government, with his family, and with his soul.  Neeson shows the struggles this man has within himself and with the Nixon White House.   Diane Lane plays his wife Audrey.  It shows the difficult life they had together, as her husband was an F.B.I. agent.  She shows the struggle of a wife of a government agent and how m...
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Nuremberg review

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   This is a new story that analyzes the relationship between Douglas Kelley and Hermann Göring.  The film deals with the other suspects, but in a very small way.  The performances are spectacular.  Russel Crowe gives humanity to this monster of a man, Hermann Göring.   I was fascinated of how this monster could have a relationship with a psychiatrist in Douglas Kelley, who is played by Remi Malik.  The film shows the relationship between these 2 men and how they were trying to represent their countries over all view at the time.   The only conflict I see with any of the characters is how Goring didn't have emotion for other families that died, but still loved his own family and cared about them so much.  That is what a narcissist does.   It shows that Goring had disdain for his own family; his uncle was Jewish, but Goring would never admit it.  How his uncle took advantage of the Goring family when they were poor....
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Fight or Flight Review

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  This review is for those of you who like action movies and don't mind swearing and bloody gore, action, and fighting.  In no way would I recommend it for children, but if you like action, this is the film to see.   Fight or Flight, what can I say about it?  It says the producers of John Wick.  Well, it sure is.   Josh Hartnett is back!  Where has he been?  This just might be the film to get him back on track like Liam Neeson.  This gruesome action film is awesome.  Non-stop action for the duration of the film.  Hartnett plays a down-on-his-luck former Secret Service agent sent to find a criminal on a plane and bring them back to the United States.  The problem is, which Hartnett finds out rather quickly, is that so are 70 or 80 others on the plane, but they don't want to arrest her; they want to kill her. So he needs to protect his asset at any cost. The film has a few redeeming qualities. The asset Harnett is tryin...
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