4 Star Movies

Movie Notes: Broadway Danny Rose

June 27th, 2009

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Danny Rose (Woody Allen) is a borscht-belt theatrical agent managing C-list singer Lou (Nick Apollo Forte), whose girlfriend (Mia Farrow) Tina gets everyone in trouble with the Mafia.

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Movie Notes: The Proposal

June 22nd, 2009

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Manhattan publishing executive Margaret (Sandra Bullock) is a corporate bitch, treating her secretary Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) as her personal slave, until she’s about to be deported back to Canada. She hastily claims to be engaged to Andrew. Hilarity ensues.

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Movie Notes: Interiors

June 21st, 2009

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Arthur and Eve’s marriage is falling apart, and daughters Renata (Diane Keaton), Joey (Mary Beth Hurt), and Flyn (Kristin Griffith) find themselves ill-prepared to cope.

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Movie Notes: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex

June 17th, 2009

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Random vignettes documenting the broad nature of human sexuality.

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Movie Notes: Flirting With Disaster

June 14th, 2009

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Adopted Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller), nervous about new fatherhood with wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette), goes on a soul-searching journey to find his real parents.

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Movie Notes: Aliens

May 26th, 2009

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Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from a spaceship encounter with a highly dangerous alien, returns to Earth and tries to put her life back together. Unfortunately, due to corporate ineptitude she finds herself returning to the planet where the original alien hailed from to fight an entire colony of them, with a squad of marines.

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Movie Notes: Lymelife

May 17th, 2009

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Set in 70s, suburban Long Island, where teenager Scott Bartlett (Rory) realizes how flawed his family’s version of the American dream is turning out to be. He’s in love with flirtatious neighbor Adrianna (Emma Roberts) whose father has contracted Lyme disease, and Scott’s older military brother Jimmy (Rory Culkin) is unable ot keep their parents Mickey (Alec Baldwin) and Brenda (Jill Hennessy) from drifting apart.

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Movie Notes: Star Trek 8: First Contact

May 13th, 2009

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The cybernetic, alien Borg visit the 21st century to disrupt “first contact” - the first faster than light voyage by engineer Zephram Cochrane which leads to Earth being visited by aliens and ushering in world peace. The Enterprise crew, led by Captain Jean Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) voyage back in time to assist Cochrane while simultaneously battling Borg assimilating the Enterprise.

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Movie Notes: Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country

May 11th, 2009

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An explosion on the Klingon planet Praxis opens an opportunity for peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

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Movie Notes: Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home

May 9th, 2009

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Captain Kirk (William Shatner) takes the crew of the Enterprise back in time to 1986 to find two humpback whales to prevent the Earth’s destruction in their future time period.

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