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  The Book of Henry 2017

  ★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  The strangest “kid movie” since Radio Flyer, although not nearly as good. I haven’t seen this in several years but I just randomly thought about it and all of the batshit crazy shenanigans that happen. Must’ve left some kind of impression because I do remember it. Maybe it’s the blandness and safe nature of kids movies over the last 3 decades that make this one stick out far more than it should. Rumor has it, Disney was so appalled by…

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  Major League: Back to the Minors 1998

  ★ Rewatched 19 Jan 2025

  Dreadful. Absolutely terrible.

  I do have some nostalgia for this one as the South Carolina Buzz play their home games in what used to be the old Charleston Riverdogs stadium, which I went to a lot as a kid. They ended up tearing this stadium down shortly after the filming of this movie and relocated to a much nicer facility, where I was actually employed briefly as a freelance videographer. 

  But this doesn’t affect how I feel about this movie.…

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  G.I. Jane 1997

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Mar 2022

  Ha! Like Jada Pinkett could ever pull this off.

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  Speed 1994

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Nov 2018 2

  “Pop quiz, hotshot! There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 mph, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do!?”

  The “Die Hard on a...” sub-genre receives its best addition. In fact, this is the only one that comes even remotely close to topping “Die Hard.” Whereas all of the other ripoffs of that film simply recycle the plot but with different A&B list actors,…

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