Thursday, May 17, 2012
Welcome to the Movie Review and Movie Summary site by Michael The Moviegoer. Your place for movie recommendations with helpful movie reviews of the latest theater releases. Be sure to check back often so you don’t miss a review. Movies are rated from zero stars (Embarrassing) to **** Stars (Excellent).

Wanderlust

February 24, 2012
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Nearly 100 minutes of pure non-stop laughing. That’s what director David Wain has given us with “Wanderlust”. Wain’s follow-up to his equally hysterical “Role Models” re-teams Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd and Alan Alda.

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The Vow

February 21, 2012
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“The Vow” opens with Rachel McAdams flying head-first, in slow motion, through the windshield of a car. This results in a brain injury that erases all memory of her life for the last five years.

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Oscar Predictions 2011-2012

February 21, 2012
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My full list of Oscar predictions ranked in order of possibility.

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Thin Ice

February 18, 2012
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Greg Kinnear stars as an insurance salesman caught up in a scam involving Alan Arkin, Billy Crudup, insurance fraud and a rare, pricey violin.

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This Means War

February 14, 2012
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Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are BFFs and CIA agents. It’s a high-tech, high-octane brain-dead action flick disguised as a romantic comedy.

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Safe House

February 11, 2012
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Ryan Reynolds plays a low level CIA operative whose lucky day arrives when he’s assigned to guard a most-wanted criminal played by Denzel Washington.

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The Woman In Black

February 11, 2012
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Daniel Radcliffe’s first post-“Harry Potter” movie role is in the gothic ghost story “The Woman In Black”. Radcliffe plays a lawyer named Arthur Kipps, a widower with a 4-year old son.

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Man On A Ledge

January 31, 2012
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The preposterous plot of “Man On A Ledge” is so ridiculously insane that the man on the ledge threatening to jump just might be the sanest person in the movie.

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The Grey

January 31, 2012
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Liam Neeson is very good as a man hired to keep Alaska oil workers safe from wolves.

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Detachment

January 22, 2012
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Adrien Brody stars as a substitute high school teacher hired by the school’s principal Marcia Gay Harden to sub for one month while a new permanent teacher can be found.

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