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Breaking Dawn Part 1—Movie Review
Edward: “If Sam comes after Bella, are you really prepared to fight your brothers, your sister?Seth: “If it’s the right thing to do.”
Breaking Dawn, Part 1 centers around how we define our loyalties and where we draw our battle lines. Bella’s involvement with the Cullens, particularly her marriage to Edward, is the catalyst which brings the tension between the vampires and the werewolves to a head. The two clans have maintained peace through a treaty, but …
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Hugo—Movie Review
“I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.” Hugo
Hugo is an orphan child who lives “in the walls” (think of a mall’s back hallways and storage rooms that aren’t for public access…kind of like that) of …
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New Year’s Eve—Movie Review
New Year’s Eve is a montage of intertwining lives, connected stories that are like pieces of a puzzle, which eventually come together to make one image. It’s like one of those photo collages—the kind that is made up of a million different pictures, small faces that are hard to distinguish unless you look carefully, but taken as a whole they make up a definite image. They collectively tell a story. Kind of like this picture. …
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Real Steel – Movie Review
Review by Stacey Tuttle
“I want you to fight for me. That’s all I ever wanted. “ Max to his Daddy
They talk about the baker who doesn’t bake at home, or the cobbler whose kids have no shoes… In Real Steel there’s that same kind of irony—a fighter who won’t fight for the people in his life. It’s a family common phenomenon. Why is it that we will do these things for strangers but we don’t do them for those closest …
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Footloose – Movie Review
Review by Stacey Tuttle
So, our conversation went something like this.
36 year old me: “Oh – you saw Footloose? What did you think about it?”
19 year old friend: “It was good, but not as good as the original.”
Me: “Oh, I didn’t really like the original.”
19 year old friend replies with shock: “What?! You didn’t like the original???”
Me: “Well, I wasn’t allowed to see it when it first came out. And when I did finally see it in college, I understood why I wasn’t allowed to see …
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Warrior–Movie Review
Sometimes you see a movie with a scene that is so powerful it’s one you turn to for strength and encouragement in your own life. Warrior had at least two of those for me.
Warrior begins when Tommy comes back home from the war and approaches his father, Paddy, (Nick Nolte) about training him for a Sparta MMA tournament. His father is now celebrating 1,000 days sober, but Tommy doesn’t care. He doesn’t have any good memories of his alcoholic dad and has no use for …
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