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Irish Film Festival 2022 – The Quiet Girl

Director Colm Bairéad Starring Catherine Clinch,Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett Rated M Score 6/6 Also Known as An Cailín Ciúin A 9-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family goes to live with distant relatives for the summer. Living with a middle-aged farm couple, she discovers a new way of living. For those of you who might be…

Convoy

Director Sam Peckinpah Stars Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw & Ernest Borgnine Rated M Score 5/6 Truckers form a mile-long “convoy” in support of a trucker’s vendetta with an abusive sheriff – Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall. For those of you playing along at home, the song the movie…

Dr. Who and the Daleks

Director Gordon Flemyng Stars Peter Cushing, Roy Castle & Jennie Linden Rated PG Score 4/6 An eccentric inventor and his companions travel in his TARDIS to the Planet Skaro and battle the evil menace of the Daleks. For those of you who might be interested Peter Cushign portrayed Dr. Who in two movies Dr. Who…

Simply Irresistible – Revisit

Director Mark Tarlov Stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery & Patricia Clarkson Rated PG Score 3/6 A department store executive can’t help but fall in love with a beautiful young woman who he believes has magical powers. Alright, I suppose I have to admit that Simply Irresistible is on my list of guilty pleasure…

Drop Dead Fred

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Director Ate de Jong Starring Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall & Marsha Mason Rated PG Score 6/6 A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood. For those of you playing along at home, supposedly when the cinematic powers where casting Drop Dead Fred they offered…

Bottle Shock

Director Randall Miller Starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman & Chris Pine Rated M Score 5/6 The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as “Judgment of Paris”. I sat down to watch Bottle Shock, certain that I…

Top Gun: Maverick

Director Joseph Kosinski Starring Tom Cruise Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller Rated M Score 6/6 After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. “Nostalgia movies” are…

Attack on the Queen

Director Jerry London Starring Rob Estes, Joe Lando & Rachel Blakely Rated US PG-13 Score 1/6 When a peace summit upon the QE2 is attacked by terrorists, estranged brothers, one an ATF agent, the other a Secret Service agent, must come together to thwart the extremist’s plans. , I’m not entirely sure why I researched…

Ambulance

Director Michael Bay Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II & Eiza González Rated MA Score 5/6 Two robbers steal an ambulance after their heist goes awry. I think it has been more than a few months since I have last watched a movie directed by Michael Bay and he has always been the director that…

Willow

Director Ron Howard Starring Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis Rated PG Score 5/6 A young farmer is chosen to undertake a perilous journey in order to protect a special baby from an evil queen. I’ve been meaning to take a look at Willow for at least a month and when I heard that a…