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Movie Review – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett Year: 2008 I hesitate to even review this movie, since it’s such an awful, cheap, and insulting ploy to play off fandom and make a quick buck, but here goes anyway. The original trilogy (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade) is
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Sports – NFL Picks 2019, Week 3
Here are my NFL Week 3 Picks (9-7 last week, 18-13-1 for the season) Bye teams: none Ten @ Jax Cin @ Buf Det @ Phi NYJ @ NE Oak @ Min Bal @ KC Atl @ Ind Den @ GB Mia @ Dal NYG @ TB Car @ Ari Pit @ SF NO
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Movie Review – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody Year: 1989 The third (and best) Indiana Jones film shows that Spielberg knew the exact problems of the second one and decided to go back to the formula of the first one, which resulted in adventure perfection and one of the best finales to a
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Movie Review – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan Year: 1984 I tried applying the theory I used to love Raiders of the Lost Ark this time around on Temple of Doom, that we should try watching the films through their era’s eyes, because that’s when they were magical, but it didn’t quite
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Movie Review – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman Year: 1981 I think it’s important that we don’t let the passing of the way-more-than-we-like-to-admit years change our opinion of what’s obviously a classic film; Raiders of the Lost Ark is still magic. It would be too easy, watching it now, to poke holes in
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Movie Review – Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Director: Sidney Lumet Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei Year: 2007 Sidney Lumet’s final film, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, is a doozy, and perhaps the best of his career, minus 12 Angry Men of course, which is basically unparalleled. But other than that classic, Lumet saved his best for last, a
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