Here’s a quick peek at what I’ve written up lately. For the full review, click on the title link!
Movie Review: War Horse
Who doesn’t love ponies? War Horse, based on the Broadway play, which was in turn based on the children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, is a grand and glorious look at what life must have been like for the young stallions and mares that had to give their all in World War I. Sounds a bit too kiddie for you? Not by a long shot. This movie opened during the holiday season for one reason; it’s an enjoyable treat for everyone, from the youngest pony-happy child to the oldest humbug-happy grouch. There’s something for everyone to like in this movie, no small trick but then with Stephen Spielberg at the helm did you expect anything less? Hey, I liked 1941. No you stop it.
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Movie Review: We Bought A Zoo
Matt Damon can do anything. He can solve the maths, he can fly like an angel, work the spy thing and the cop thing, and now he runs a zoo. Okay, so he needs a little help from a passel of zookeepers, but the end result is totally worth it. We Bought A Zoo is a trip I’d take anytime.
Based on We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever by Benjamin Mee, the film tells the story of a man who decides to chuck it all and start afresh after the death of his wife. Moving the action from the U.K. (the real zoo is Dartmoor Zoological Park in England) to SoCal here in the States, the story takes a few liberties with the real-life tale, but those changes make the story easier to follow as well as easier to tell in the limited span of a feature film. How do you manage to find yourself after the world has dumped all over you? With lions, tigers and bears. Oh, my!
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