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Herbie Fully Loaded 2005
Herbie Fucks an Underage Yellow Bug and Batman is Cool With It.
Working title: Herbie Remains Bananas
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Bridge to Terabithia 2007
Last night, after we'd just finished watching this on our weekly family movie night, I didn't think I would be able to write any sort of review without Big Time Spoilers. But after sleeping on it, I can.
Going in, I thought this was a children's fantasy movie - perhaps along the lines of Neverending Story. It's actually a sophisticated coming-of-age film. I'm not sure how much my 9yo and almost-5yo enjoyed it.
The "real life" drama was actually much…
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Temple Grandin 2010
This movie is feel-good, educational (if you know as little about autism as I do), fun, and inspiring. Also, downright entertaining.
You can hereby consider me an enormous fan of Temple Grandin (the person), Temple Grandin (this movie), and Claire Danes (who plays Temple Grandin, the person, in this movie).
I came to this after seeing Temple Grandin (the person)'s excellent TED Talk titled The World Needs All Kinds of Minds. Do what I did: see that. Then see this…
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The Good Shepherd 2006
The Good Shepherd went way beyond not insulting my intelligence. It pretty much threw a bunch of stuff up on the screen and said, "ha! Try to figure that one out!" But I like that in a movie.
I'd rather not be entirely certain what is happening than have it all spelled out for me like I'm some sort of idiot. Which is why I fucking hate flashback sequences. I just fucking saw that! Did you think I forgot what…
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