Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’

Recent Movie Rentals

Stranger Than Fic­tion, directed by: Marc Forster Mark’s Rat­ing: 5 out of 5 When I orig­i­nally saw the ads and trail­ers for this movie, I knew I would want to rent it1. I fig­ured it would be a cou­ple of hours of silli­ness and that would be it. I never expected that I’d want to add […]

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My wife and I bought one of these on our way out of Tar­get the other day. Sure it was expen­sive, but it was cold and we were thirsty. Hav­ing said that, I’d rather drink motor oil than ever have this stuff again. The drink is hor­ri­bly sweet and nasty. I fig­ure this stuff mostly […]

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Review: The Marine

Mark’s Rat­ing: 1.75 out of 5 stars Fri­day, Ariesna and I were orig­i­nally plan­ning on hav­ing guests over. When we found out they were all can­cel­ing due to the weather; we hit up the video store and got a cou­ple of movies. When we got home, the first one we watched was The Marine. I’d selected […]

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Review: Ghost Rider

Mark’s Rat­ing: 3.75 out of 5 Johnny Blaze a motor­cy­cle stunt rider with a car­ni­val sells his soul to Mephistophe­les in a bar­gain to cure his father’s can­cer. The next day Blaze Sr. dies in motor­cy­cle acci­dent. Johnny blames Mephistophe­les for his father’s death, but is still bound by his con­tract. Years later, Mephistophe­les calls […]

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Review: Pan’s Labrynth

Mark’s Rat­ing: 4 out of 5 A dark, bru­tal and depress­ing movie that touches the heart. Pan’s Labyrinth was imported form Span­ish (orig­i­nal title: El laber­into del fauno) and is a mod­ern fairy tale. Don’t let that fairy tale descrip­tion fool you, this is no film for young chil­dren. The set­ting is some­where in the countryside […]

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