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American Splendor (2003)
IMDB rating: 7.70
Plot: Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, [...]

Feb 5th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Braveheart (1995)
IMDB rating: 8.30
Plot: The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William’s father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland [...]

Feb 3rd, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Out of Africa (1985)
IMDB rating: 7.00
Plot: A study of the life of Danish noblewoman and storyteller Karen (’Isak’) Dinesen Blixen, from her marriage and departure for Kenya in 1913 until her return to Denmark in 1931. As she struggles to maintain a coffee farm through various struggles and disasters, and strives to improve relations with [...]

Jan 18th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
IMDB rating: 7.20
Plot: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised ‘Doin’ What Comes Naturally’. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in ‘Colonel Buffalo Bill’’s show, however, knows full well that’s not how ‘The Girl That I Marry’ must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that ‘My Defences are [...]

Jan 5th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Last Emperor, The (1987)
IMDB rating: 7.80
Plot: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally [...]

Nov 28th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

Man on the Moon (1999)
IMDB rating: 7.30
Plot: Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman, along with his role on “Taxi,” was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again, Jerry Lawler (who plays himself in the movie), [...]

Nov 26th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

Rudy (1993)
IMDB rating: 7.30
Plot: Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other [...]

Nov 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized