Monthly Archives: May 2006

Last Holiday

Posted on May 19, 2006

Queen Latifah starred in last year’s remake of Last Holiday, playing a shopgirl misdiagnosed with a terminal illness. Cashing in her retirement funds for a dream trip to a European five star ski resort, she’s mistaken for a mystreiously wealthy … Continue reading →

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Mission Impossible 3

Posted on May 18, 2006

As part of our third anniversary celebration, we saw Mission Impossible 3–get it? Three, third? LOL. Seriously, we both enjoyed 1 & 2 and are JJ Abrams fans so, bad reviews and disgust with Tom Cruise’s Scientology-inspired antics aside, there … Continue reading →

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Stealth

Posted on May 11, 2006

I expect that smart planes are not too far off though I don’t believe any American military officer would be so cavalier with the destructive power Tinman has in Stealth. Then again, Hollywood is not the Pentagon and overzealous military … Continue reading →

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Monster-In-Law

Posted on May 7, 2006

I can just hear the studio executive after hearing the pitch: “Jane Fonda matched up with Jennifer Lopez in her return to Hollywood moviemaking after 15 years as Ted Turner’s wife, talk about box office magic!” And so Monster-In-Law was … Continue reading →

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Serpico

Posted on May 7, 2006

Surprisingly TS1 had never seen this 1973 Al Pacino movie despite it being on so many top 100 films of all time lists. So we borrowed it from the library but the disc was bad and we had to wait … Continue reading →

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