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50 First dates
50 First Dates, is a great romantic comedy, based on meeting for the first time, 50 times. The movies follows the love life of Henry Roth, played by Adam Sandler. Henry is a vet on a pacific island who falls in love with tourists and feels great about breaking up with them when they leave. [...]
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American Pie
American Pie is a classic coming of age movie. It follows the hapless Jim Levenstein, played by Jason Biggs in his final year in high school. He and his mates are trying the become men and have trouble getting it on with the girls at parties. They make a pact to get with a girl [...]
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View from the Top
View from the Top, stars a range of top class actors, in a movie that is a little predictable. The movie starts Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna Jensen the daughter of a single mum living in a caravan and going no where fast. Donna then watches a TV show with Sally Weston, played by Candice Bergen. [...]
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Panic Room
Panic Room is a thriller that has mother and daughter, Meg and Sarah Altman, locking themselves in their panic room on the first night after buying it. The panic room is a bunker style room that is near impossible to get into, the room included cameras, phone, and intercom. There are also supplies. However when [...]
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The Blues Brothers
After the disaster that was our previous movie selecion, we went for a sure thing and saw the original Blues Brothers, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Jake and Elwood. On a “a mission from God” they hold a concert to save the orphanage. This features an incrediable number of cameos, including James Brown, Cab [...]
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Ride or Die
Ride or Die is a crime movie set in the Rap music industry. This is the first movie that me and my mates have pulled the plug on. I guess the rap music was just too much for us to take.
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Showtime
Showtime follows Detective Mitch Preston, played by Robert De Niro. Desperate for ratings, Chase Renzi, played by Rene Russo, dreams up a TV show staring Mitch, after he shoots one of her network’s TV cameras and the ratings go through the roof. Meanwhile Patrolman Trey Sellars, played by Eddie Murphy, is trying make a start [...]
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Volcano
Volcano is a classic disaster movie, with all of the Hollywood treatment. The disaster is that a volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles. At first emergency staff are in denial about what it is, but once they accept that this is happening they put together a plan to dam the lava flow and dump water [...]
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Toy Story
Toy Story is the first feature film released by Pixar and was the start of an impressive range of movies that always tell the story from an interesting perspective. It was also the worlds first wholly computer generated movie, Pixar introduced us to the concept of a computer having to draw thousands or millions of [...]
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Kill Bill Volume 2
Kill Bill Volume 2 I feel was a waste of time. This movie seems to be getting a lot of good coverage in the press, but I can’t see the point of it. I guess I may not understand the movie as I have not seen the first one. The story seems to take ages [...]
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