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This is going to be review week here at Everyone’s Entitled to Joe’s Opinion, because I have a number of books, CDs, and other things that I want to review before the new year.  Deal with it.
Quantum of Solace is the latest James Bond movie; it came out back in November.  This movie is intended [...]

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Movie Review: 300

300 is billed as the next Braveheart or Gladiator.  I’m not entirely sure that it lives up to that billing, but I did think it was a good film.
300 is based on Frank Miller’s comic book and graphic novel of the same name, which came out in the late 1990s and which depict the Battle of Thermopylae, [...]

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The Illusionist is one of the best movies in all of 2006, one which, unfortunately, will probably not get the props it deserves.
The movie is set in turn-of-the-century Vienna.  It begins with a show by a traveling magician named Eisenheim being shut down by the chief of police.  We then flash back to Eisenheim’s adolescence, [...]

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Well, it took a few weeks but I finally got around to seeing this movie.
This review by Michael Spencer put me in the right frame of mind to see and appreciate this movie, and I was not disappointed.  “Dumb cops, weird intellectuals, and a 354th cousin of Jesus” certainly seemed to be an accurate description [...]

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This movie is an excellent adaptation of the children’s book by C. S. Lewis. It does take some liberties with the story, but all in all it is faithful to the book.

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