Category Archives: Movies

Movie Review: The Great Gatsby

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 4/5 stars

The sheer decadence will draw you in and destroy you.

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Movie Review: Ironman 3

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars

It’s the Tony Stark Show with special guest, Ironman!

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Movie Review: The Company You Keep

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars Sometimes, somebody else’s past comes back to haunt you.

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Movie Review: The Place Beyond The Pines

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars

Hello, I’m Ira Glass.  Today on This American Life, we look into the relationships that fathers have, or don’t have, with their sons in three acts.  Act one:  “The Place Beyond the Pines”.  Stay Tuned.

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Movie Review: 42

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars

A mediocre movie about a monumental man.

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Movie Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 2/5 stars

Good action.  Bad plot.  Ugly dialogue.

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Movie Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

This is just a placeholder post to acknowledge that I did, indeed, see this movie.  It was completely forgettable in every way.  I forgot about it so quickly that I had to be reminded that I saw it to write this review.  I can’t even remember enough about it to determine how many stars I should give it.

“The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”, it was a movie that I saw.

Movie Review: Olympus Has Fallen

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 4/5 stars

An incredibly flawed but immensely fun movie.

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Movie Review: Oz The Great And Powerful

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars

A movie based solely on nostalgia.  And opportunism.  Don’t forget opportunism.

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Movie Review: Jack The Giant Slayer

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Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars

There are giants in the sky.  There are big tall  terrible awesome scary wonderful giants in the sky!

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