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2025 in review
With the 1st of January now rolling us into 2026, it’s time for my annual review of the year that has just closed. Another beautiful sunny day here in Virginia, warm and blue skies as I sit down and reflect on some of the stats and journals I have maintained this year.
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The Rock (1996)
Can you believe this movie is nearly 20 years old? This was one of Sean Connery’s last major movies before retiring. Though, even as a 66 year old he looked like he could have gone another 10 years yet, considering how much output the likes of Arnold and Stallone are pumping out in their mid 60′s. This is another one I will confess, I will put in the ‘okay Nicolas Cage was quite…
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The Age of Adaline (2015)
This is a rather sweet romantic thriller built upon the premise that the leading the lady never ages after getting into a road accident in her early 20′s. Therefore she never wants to fall in love because she knows she will out live any partner. She also moves around a lot, both to avoid detection, but also to rekindle a new identity and for people not to become…
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
How does one do justice in describing this masterpiece? We have a multi-generational retelling of how a rather grand, gooky, hotel came into the possession of someone that started off his career as a lobby boy. Ralph Fiennes steals the show as Mr Gustav the concierge that maintains the quality and prestige of the Budapest Hotel. In addition to this, he takes care of his lady clients with a special attention…
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Pixels (2015)
This movie has all the ingredients to make this a complete and utter waste of time and money. Adam Sandler staring should be everything you need to know. But it gets better, an alien race, takes on the form of the arcade games from the early 1980′s to invade the planet using pixelated boxes of energy. Oh, and did I mention we have Kevin James as the POTUS? Watch…
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
This absolute gem of a movie from the very talented Mike Myers broke the mold when it came to parodies. In fact to call this a parody is being disingenuous, because this movie stands on its own two feet, even if you don’t know all the back references to the early James Bond outings. Playing the British super swinging 1960′s super agent that is then frozen only to be thawed out…
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San Andreas (2015)
This movie I walked into with my eyes wide open and with full expectation this was going to be a cheesy Sharknado type of disaster flick. The full on B style movie with awful laughable special effects and a lame story line. Boy was I surprised. Relatively lame story line aside for the moment, from the opening scene of the girl driving over the cliff and the Rock coming in…
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Terminator Genisys (2015)
Can you believe this is my 50th movie review in this movie-a-day-for-a-year series? What a better way to mark this milestone with a good old fashioned post-Governor Arnie terminator romp? We can all agree that the first Terminator, from James Cameron, out 31 years ago, truly set the standard and put Arnold into the big league movie stars. There has been a number of reboots of this series, including a…
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Z for Zachariah (2015)
Post nuclear war and very few human survivors are left. We open up with Ann (Margot Robbie) taking various things from an abandoned town in her radiation suit. She then walks out far enough into the country and gets rid of the suit – clearly setting up that there is an area that for some reason is not bathed in radiation. She goes about her lonely existence, when she happens…
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Results (2015)
Where do you even begin with this train wreck of a romantic comedy? Though, if we look at it as infomercial for how fit and trim Guy Pearce is then we have a winner. So the setup is around a private fitness center run by the aforementioned Mr Pearce. He, Trevor, is very passionate about his mission statement that getting fit is more than just the physical body. He…
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