tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330282262012-01-23T23:22:26.879-07:00The official blog of new Utah author Cory Hamblin. My film trivia book is available at Amazon.com, Rosedogbookstore.com, Hastings in Ogden, and Starry Night Books in Tooele.serkethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03913278144941650243noreply@blogger.comBlogger9751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33028226.post-16172352958817665262012-01-23T23:19:00.002-07:002012-01-23T23:22:26.889-07:00

This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and

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I liked this book written by Lee Child. Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire

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This is an okay movie. On Christmas Eve, a young boy calls into a radio talk show and tells a psychologist that his father Sam (Tom Hanks) has been unable to move on since his wife passed away. Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) is travelling from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C. after a dinner with her fiancée at her parent's house. She is flipping through radio stations and hears the boy's call.

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This is a moderate New Zealand movie. The Sumatran Rat-Monkey is captured on Skull Island and shipped to the Wellington Zoo in New Zealand. In 1957, Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) lives with his domineering mother. He falls for a local shopkeeper's daughter named Paquita (Diana Peñalver) and they visit the zoo for their first date. Lionel's mother is spying on them when she is bitten by the

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This is an okay book written by Patricia Cornwell. Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is driving through Savannah’s low country, on her way to the Georgia Prison for Women. She has agreed to meet with an inmate there, a convicted sex offender and the mother of a diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is

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This is a solid movie. In 1995, eleven years after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) destroyed the original Terminator, a second killing machine (Arnold Schwarzenegger) arrives from the year 2029. This time his goal is stop an ever more advanced Terminator, made of shape-shifting liquid metal, and intent on preventing John from becoming leader of the human Resistance. The Terminator informs John

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This is a solid movie. Team leader Jane Carter and field agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) help Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and another man escape from a Moscow prison. Hunt is assigned to infiltrate the Kremlin and find documents about a terrorist who wants to buy a nuclear weapon. The mission fails, the Kremlin is blown up, and Hunt is blamed for the attack. The President decides to cancel the

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This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. After a ten-year hiatus from professional basketball, the owner of the New Jersey Dragons wants Myron Bolitar back on the team. But this time around, Bolitar isn’t being drafted for his jump shot. Instead, he must use his background in the FBI to find a mysterious missing player.This is the third novel in the series.

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This is a solid movie. 27-year-old Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) has had a very close male friend for many years and at one time they even talked about getting married if neither of them found other partners. Now Michael O'Neal informs her that he is engaged to marry a student with a very wealthy family. Julianne travels to Chicago hoping she can stop the wedding. Kimberly (Cameron Diaz) has

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This is an okay book co-written by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York - including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can’t let him pay for the real killer’s crimes. Nina’s secret life began 19

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This is a solid movie. Tom Mullen (Mel Gibson) is a wealthy airline executive. While attending a science fair where his wife Kate (Rene Russo) is a judge, their son Sean is kidnapped. He is taken to the apartment of a woman who used to work for the family. The criminals send out an e-mail demanding a $2 million ransom. NYPD detective Jimmy Shaker is the mastermind of the plot. Tom tries to

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This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey’s train wreck of a life is finally improving – until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley’s trail into a seedy

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This is a solid movie. Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is a sarcastic and successful writer who lives alone in an apartment in New York City. He eats at the same restaurant every day, but brings his own utensils because of his fear of germs. He is also very rude to other people. His neighbor Simon is a gay artist with a poorly behaved Brussells Griffon dog who constantly pees on the carpet and

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This is a solid movie. Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is a financial reporter struggling to rebuild his reputation after being accused of libel. He is hired by wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger to come to his family's island and discover what happened to his beloved niece Harriet who disappeared one day and is believed to have been murdered by a member of the large family. Blomkvist requests

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This is a solid movie. Nearly an entire wedding party is slaughtered during a dress rehearsal at a rural church. The pregnant bride (Uma Thurman) is the only survivor, but she is badly injured and enters a coma. When she awakens after four years, she assumes that her baby was killed and she decides to get revenge on the assassins who are responsible for the tragedy. Her first target is O-Ren

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This is a noteworthy movie. Woody, a pull-string talking cowboy, is 6-year-old Andy's favorite toy. However, on Andy's next birthday he receives space action figure Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and starts to ignore his old toy. Woody (Tom Hanks) becomes jealous and accidentally knocks Buzz out of the window, which causes the other toys to think it was done on purpose. Woody and Buzz both end up

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This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. Brenda Slaughter’s mother disappeared twenty years ago. Now, just as her pro basketball career takes off, she discovers that her father has also gone missing. Her new lover, sports agent, writer, and former pro-basketball player Myron Bolitar, finds himself desperate to solve these unsettling disappearances and protect Brenda.This is the fifth book

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This is a solid movie. An armada of flying saucers is spotted hovering over the Earth. President James "Jimmy" Dale (Jack Nicholson) addresses the American public about the potential threat. His scientific advisor Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan) is convinced that any intelligent life must be peaceful. During first contact everything seems to be going well until a dove flies towards the

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This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn’t thrown a punch. He hasn’t held, much less fired, a gun. He hasn’t called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knows, to back him up or get him out of trouble. All that is about to change because of a promise. Myron is determined to

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I did not like this book written by Harlan Coben. The horror of one night is forever etched in Matt Hunter’s memory: the night he innocently tried to break up a fight – and ended up a killer. Now, nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he’s an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. With his wife, Olivia, pregnant and the two of them closing on a house in his

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This is an okay movie. In the year 2805, Earth is entirely covered in trash and humans have left the planet to live on space stations. Robots were built to clean and organize all of the garbage. The only one that still survives is a lonely robot known as a Waste Allocation Load Lifter. His only companion is a cockroach and he also spends time watching old movies. One day a highly advanced

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This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. The U.S. Open is in full swing when superstar golfer Linda Coldren and her husband and aging golf pro, Jack, discover that their teenage son has been kidnapped. To uncover clues, sports writer Myron Bolitar looks back 23 years earlier when Jack Coldren should have won the Open but didn’t.This is the fourth book in the series.

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This is an okay movie. Two bank robbers are serving time in an Oregon prison. Joe (Bruce Willis) decides to hijack a construction truck and smash through the prison gates and his hypochondriac partner Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) escapes with him. While driving in separate stolen vehicles, Terry's car runs out of gas and he gets help from Kate (Cate Blanchett) who is upset with her husband. They

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This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past 8 years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David

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This is a solid movie. Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) is a well-trained fighter who wants to demonstrate that a Russian can be a successful boxer. Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) agrees to face him in the first fight and then dies from his injuries. To avenge his best friend’s death, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) decides to visit Russia to fight against the large and talented opponent. While

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I liked this book written by Christopher Paolini. Not so very long ago, Eragon – Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider – was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And

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This is an okay book written by David Baldacci. John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. He is called out on a case in a remote area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost.

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This is a solid movie. The title of Santa Claus has run in the same family for hundreds of years. The current one uses a high tech spaceship with thousands of elves to operate the command center. His oldest son Steve (Hugh Laurie) manages the operations of mission control, while Santa is flying. On Christmas Eve over 2 billion gifts are successfully delivered. After everyone has gone off to

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This is an okay book written by Janet Evanovich. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie Plum’s name is on the killer’s list. Short on time to find evidence proving the killer’s identity, Stephanie faces further complications

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This is an okay movie. In 1974 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Tim crashes into a parked police car while high on marijuana and his dad (Alec Baldwin) sends him to a prep school hoping he will reform. His mother committed suicide when he was a child and his brother Jackie has to be in a wheelchair. If Tim is unable to graduate, he will be forced to spend a year in jail. He meets Jane Weston who is

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. She’s called Carmen. She’s a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl and she has married into the wrong family. They’re called the Greers. They’re a bitter and miserly clan, and they’ve made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now. Lawyers

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This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. A blissful Caribbean vacation is cut short for sports agent Myron when he is informed that one of his clients, baseball star Clu Haid, has been found dead. To make matters worse, his business partner and best friend Esperanza Diaz has been charged with the murder. As Myron tries to find answers, he stumbles upon a complicated and odd series of

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This is an okay book written by Michael Connelly. Narcotics officer Cal Moore’s orders were to look into the city’s latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note stuffed into his back pocket. Years ago, Harry Bosch learned the first rule of the good cop: don’t look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Now, Harry’s

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This is an okay book written by James Patterson. Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The President's son and daughter have been abducted from their school – an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn’t want him too

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I liked this book written by Lee Child. In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men – practiced and confident – who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a

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This is a solid movie. Career bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) uses a tunnel to escape from prison. U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez) is waiting outside when it happens and she is kidnapped and thrown into the trunk of her car, which is then driven away. Foley and some of his friends decide to rob a house in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, after another inmate bragged about his stash

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers in the lottery? What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark the numbers on the play card. And you would win. Same for the stock market. Same for basketball or the horses or anything. Same for killing people. Women are

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This is an imperfect-but-creditable movie. Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his brother Richie (Quentin Tarantino) are dangerous criminals trying to avoid the Texas police and the FBI after a deadly bank robbery. Seth is thoughtful and a careful planner, but Richie is impulsive and a sex fiend. The brothers want to flee to Mexico where the mysterious Carlos claims he can provide sanctuary, but

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. An elite military cop, Jack Reacher was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One messy, tangled case that can make a lawman question words like honor, valor, and duty. New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star

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This is a solid movie. In 1931, Hugo Cabret is orphaned when his father is killed in a fire. He is taken by his alcoholic uncle who maintains the clocks in a railway station. When his uncle disappears, Hugo decides to stay at the train station and work on the clocks. He has a broken automaton of a mechanical man holding a pen that has deep meaning for him because his father was trying to

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This is a noteworthy movie. Finn is a young boy who is raised by his sister’s boyfriend Joe (Chris Cooper). The man is summoned to the home of Ms. Nora Dinsmoor, the richest woman in Florida, for a gardening job but instead is given an envelope full of cash. Finn goes along with him and sees a young girl named Estella, who is the rich woman's niece. Because she wants the girl to have a

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I liked this book written by Lee Child. The intrepid hero Jack Reacher travels back and forth between two Colorado towns, Hope and Despair. When he arrives in Despair for breakfast at a diner, he is immediately attacked and thrown in jail. Upon release he partners with a cop in Hope. Why is the small town with its mysterious metal processing plant and nearby military checkpoint so desperate

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This is a solid movie. Two drunken racists grab a 10-year-old black girl, rape her, and try to kill her through hanging, but she survives. Her father Carl (Samuel L. Jackson) thinks the men will not be punished and so he shoots and kills both of them inside the courthouse and also injures a police officer. Previously, he had asked lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) to defend him if he

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in – no phone, no address, no commitments – ex-military investigator Jack

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This is a solid movie. Walter lives with his human brother Gary (Jason Segel) in Smalltown. One night after a disappointing experience at an amusement park, they turn on their television and start watching The Muppet Show, and Walter instantly becomes a fan of the characters. As an adult, Gary decides to take his girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams), an elementary teacher, to Los Angeles for their

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This is an okay movie. The Miami Sharks are struggling to make the playoffs in 2001. During the thirteenth game of the season, both the starting quarterback Jack "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid) and the second-string quarterback Tyler Cherubini are injured and forced to leave the game. This leaves them to play with third-string quarterback Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx). After some adjustments he

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This is an imperfect-but-creditable Italian movie. Encolpio (Martin Potter) is lamenting the loss of his lover Gitone (Max Born) to Ascilto (Hiram Keller). Vowing to win him back, he learns that Ascilto sold Gitone to the actor Vernacchio. At the theatre, he discovers Vernacchio and Gitone performing in a lewd play. Encolpio storms the stage and reclaims Gitone. On their return to Encolpio's home

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This is an okay book written by Harlan Coben. After receiving an unexpected visit from his ex-girlfriend, sports agent Myron Bolitar discovers that he fathered her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy, who is dying and in need of a bone-marrow transplant. Now, Myron must track down the potential donor who has gone missing, and in doing so, encounters several shady characters.This is the seventh novel

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This is a moderate movie. Roommates Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann W. Scott) wake up one morning at home and can’t remember anything that happened the previous night. When their girlfriends call to remind them that it’s their anniversary, they step outside and realize that Jesse’s car is missing. They meet a transsexual stripper who says they never returned a suitcase full of cash.

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. A decade post military, Jack Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back--no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story – about

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This is an imperfect-but-creditable movie. Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a lonely widow who spends most of her time watching infomercials. When she is chosen to appear on a game show, she tries on her old red dress and realizes it is too small. She begins a grapefruit diet to lose weight, but is constantly hungry and decides to purchase diet pills. She becomes addicted to them and starts

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This is an imperfect-but-creditable movie. In a suburb near Portland, Oregon, several high school students are shown during a day at school. John's father Mr. McFarland (Timothy Bottoms) is driving erratically while drunk, so John asks him to switch places. Alex and Eric are bullied at school by jocks, including a spitball thrown at one of them during class. They decide to order some rifles

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This is an okay movie. After their marriage in Washington, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) travel to a private island near Brazil for a honeymoon. After two weeks, she is surprised to learn that she is pregnant. The wolf pack threatens to attack the vampires if Bella is killed, so Jacob (Taylor Lautner) visits the Cullens’ home hoping his family will stay away. Bella’s

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. Former military police major and notorious drifter Jack Reacher grows suspicious of a fellow subway passenger as their train approaches Grand Central Station in New York City. As a shady situation develops, Reacher debates between intervening to save surrounding lives or avoiding the predicament in order to save his own.This is the 13th novel in the

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This is a moderate movie. Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis) are an unofficially married couple who gain notoriety by driving from one town to another shooting as many people as they can. After being bitten by rattlesnakes, they are arrested while robbing a pharmacy. When they have been in prison for a year, a popular television host (Robert Downey, Jr.) is given the chance

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Hollywood’s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvin Cole to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to

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This is an okay movie. In London, Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) is the leader of a youth gang. One night while intoxicated they beat an elderly homeless man, cripple a writer and rape his wife. Another time he sneaks into a mansion and bludgeons a woman with a statue and then is arrested. Alex is sentenced to 14 years in prison, but after two years is given a chance with an experimental

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. A young woman is found murdered by a railroad track in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Top military cop Jack Reacher has plenty of evidence that indicates a soldier at a nearby base is the killer, but this soldier has some powerful friends at his disposal. Reacher is sent undercover for answers, but things quickly become complicated. He reluctantly

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This is a solid movie. Molly McCleish (Alice Eve), a beautiful lawyer, leaves her cell phone behind during a TSA screening on her way to New York City. Agent Kirk Kettner (Jay Baruchel) finds it, and they set up a meeting time at The Andy Warhol Museum. She invites him to go to a hockey game the next night on a double date. Their following date is a fancy dinner at a French restaurant, where

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This is a solid movie. While visiting a town, Puss (Antonio Banderas) learns that Jack (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill are in possession of the magic beans he has been seeking. They are the only way to reach the land of the giants in the clouds and the goose that lays golden eggs. Puss tries to retrieve the beans from the outlaws' room, but is interrupted by masked burglar Kitty Softpaws (Salma

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This is a solid movie. 10-year-old Ryan Tyler (Ryan Slater) loves to play Nintendo and watch American Gladiators with his best friend Johnny. His parents have been divorced two years and his father works on a panda preserve in China. Ryan is given airplane tickets to visit but is reluctant to go, afraid that his dad doesn’t want to see him. When he arrives he learns about a panda caught in a trap

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This is a solid movie. In 1962, college freshmen, Larry Kroger (Thomas Hulce) and Kent Dorfman (Stephen Furst), want to join a fraternity. They first try the prestigious Omega Theta Pi, but decide it's the wrong group. Next, they visit Delta Tau Chi and are immediately welcomed. The dean of the college wants to ban the Deltas because of their repeated code violations and low grade point averages.

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, Jack Reacher has moved from place to place, without family, without possessions, and without commitments. But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back and Reacher sees his

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This is an imperfect-but-creditable movie. In 1936, con artist Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) steals $11,000 from a man who happens to be a courier for crime boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Lonnegan's men murder Hooker's partner, so he flees to Chicago. A con-man (Paul Newman) hiding out from the FBI, wins $15,000 from Lonnegan in a poker game. Hooker convinces the mob boss that he is going to

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This is a solid movie. Jennifer Paige (Joanna Going) feels that her younger sister Lisa needs a vacation, so she brings her to the small resort town of Snowfield, Colorado. Upon arrival, the town seems to be more deserted than usual and they find two dead bodies. Sheriff Bryce Hammond (Affleck) and his deputies come to investigate and it seems like the town is haunted. Professor Flyte, a

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This is an okay movie based on true events. In 1905, Tevye (Chaim Topol) the Dairyman lives in Russia with his poor Jewish family. In the tradition of their village, a matchmaker is charged with finding husbands for the local women. His oldest daughter Tzeitel is in love with Motel Kamzoil, a tailor without a sewing machine, but Tevye is unaware of this and arranges for her to marry the wealthy

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This is an okay book written by Lee Child. Jack Reacher is settling into lazy Key West when his life is interrupted by a stranger who comes looking for him. When the stranger turns up beaten to death in Old Town cemetery – fingertips removed – Reacher knows whomever the man was working for is not a friend. Reacher follows the trail to New York, where he confronts the people who dispatched the

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This is a solid movie. Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman) are attending a fancy Christmas party where a Hungarian man flirts with her and two young models chat with the doctor. When they get home, Alice asks her husband if he ever fantasizes about other women and she confesses that once she almost had an affair with a military man. Bill is very surprised by this

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This is a solid movie. Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) manages a team of four other ex-criminals whose computer skills are used to discover vulnerabilities in security systems. They are hired by two NSA agents to spy on a Russian professor and find out what he is building. The team plans to sneak into an office building and steal the black box. Martin convinces his ex-girlfriend Liz (Mary

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This is an imperfect-but-creditable miniseries. Prince Wendell (Daniel Lapaine) is on his way to a prison to inform the Evil Queen (Dianne Wiest) that her request for parole has been denied. With the help of the Troll King, she escapes and turns the prince into a dog. The dog jumps through a magical mirror and lands in New York City. Virginia Lewis (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), a 21-year-old

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This is an okay movie. In the year 2161, genetic manipulation allows people to stop aging. In order to prevent overpopulation a device is implanted so that once you reach age 25, you only have one year left to live. Time has also replaced money as the means of trade, so people can lower or extend their life by how they use their time. Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) is a 28-year-old factory worker

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Elvis Cole is just a detective who can’t say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: her fiancé, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he’s in trouble – the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of. Five minutes after his new client leaves

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This is an okay movie. On the night of May 15 Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) hears a clock ticking. She discovers a secret chamber inside of her mansion and finds a carriage clock with an odd object inside of it. She shares pictures of the device with another tomb raider and he pretends to not understand what it is, but then sends commandos to steal it from her. The next day she receives a letter

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Elvis Cole, wisecracking private eye, finds himself embroiled in a controversial LA murder case. A wealthy entrepreneur appears to have murdered his wife. A hot-shot defense attorney takes the case and hires Elvis to find proof that the L.A. detective – rumored to be dirty – fooled around with the evidence. But as Elvis investigates, he becomes more

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This is a solid movie. Vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens after decades of sleep to the sound of a rock band, and instead of getting upset he decides to become their lead singer. The new band quickly becomes popular and Lestat arranges for a large concert in Death Valley. He challenges all of the other vampires to come out of hiding. Queen Akasha (Aaliyah) wants to partner with him so they

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This is a solid movie. Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is tired of working as a journalist in New York City, so he takes a job in Puerto Rico writing horoscopes and interviewing tourists about the local bowling alley. When the editor of the newspaper learns how much Kemp spends on rum, he forces the writer to find a new place to live. The San Juan Star is struggling financially and Kemp wants to write

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This is a solid movie. Michael Cromwell (Tim Allen) is a successful commodities broker living in New York City and engaged to marry Charlotte (Lolita Davidovich), a fashion designer. He flies out to Venezuela so his estranged wife can sign the divorce papers. While there he learns that he has a 13-year-old son Mimi-Siku (Sam Huntington), who has been raised by a native tribe. Michael reluctantly

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This is a solid movie based on a true story. Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble) is a depressed and lonely boy who spends his free time in the garage tinkering with his remote controlled helicopter. His favorite cousin Kyle Connellan (Austin Stowell) serves in the military and is sent to Iraq. One day while Sawyer is riding his bicycle near the beach, a fisherman calls out to him to find help because a

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This is an okay movie. In 1993, IRA gunman Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) travels to New York using an alias, with the goal of buying missiles and using a fishing boat to take them to Ireland. He stays with the family of New York police sergeant Tom O'Meara (Harrison Ford), who are unaware of his true purpose for visiting. When some masked gunman break into the house, O'Meara becomes suspicious of

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Elvis Cole and former cop Joe Pike have been partners in a detective agency for 12 years. After an ex-girlfriend of Pike’s disappears, the girl’s father asks them to help the police with the search. When the missing persons case turns into a hunt for a killer who has been stalking victims in Los Angeles, Cole and Pike find themselves battling both a

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This is a solid movie. Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) and his fiancée Dr. Melissa Reeves drive to Oklahoma in order to get the divorce papers signed by his estranged wife Dr. Jo Harding (Helen Hunt). When Jo was only five years old her father was killed in a tornado, and ever since she has been obsessed with them. When Bill hears about an upcoming storm he decides to stick around with the old team.

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This is a solid Brazilian movie based on a true story. Cidade de Deus is a neighborhood in Brazil that was built by the government in 1960 to move poor blacks into the suburbs. Three teenagers known as the Tender Trio decide to rob a motel. A young boy nicknamed Li'l Dice comes along but is told to wait outside. After the other boys leave, he massacres the occupants. Rocket belongs to a group of

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I liked this book written by Lee Child. The sleepy, forgotten town hasn’t seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys

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This is an okay movie. A man (Steve Buscemi) comes into a bar and tells the bartender a story about a mysterious and dangerous man who is traveling in search of Bucho. El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) enters the same bar carrying a guitar case. At first he seems to be harmless, but the patrons discover that he is hiding several guns and start shooting at him. Bucho is worried by the rumors about

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This is an okay movie. A woman (Laura Harring) survives a car wreck intended to kill her on Mulholland Drive, but she can't remember much about her life including her own name. She walks a few blocks away and hides inside of a vacated apartment. Aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) comes to stay in the same residence that actually belongs to her aunt. The two women develop a close

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red light after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed,

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This is an okay book written by Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson cannot remember who is he or where he came from. He meets a goddess posing as an old lady who makes him pick between two hard options. He decides to enter a Roman half-blood camp and is assigned to go on a quest with fellow demigods Frank and Hazel.This is the second book in the Heroes of Olympus series.

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This is an okay movie. Birdwatchers will occasionally participate in an informal competition, hoping to see more varieties of birds than anyone else in a single year. Kenny Bostick (Owen Wilson) set the world record last year and is determined to maintain his prominence, but his wife Jessica really wants to get pregnant and is upset that her husband is never around. Businessman Stu Preissler (

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This is an okay movie. Five dogs are brought by their owners to Philadelphia for the annual breed show. Harlan is a ventriloquist who owns a fly-fishing shop and raises Bloodhounds. Gerry (Eugene Levy) and Cookie (Catherine O'Hara) is a couple from Florida with financial problems, who like to sing about their Terrier. Meg and Hamilton is a bickering yuppie couple who seem uncertain about the

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This is an okay book written by John Sandford. Superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two groups want to stop it: local merchants and environmentalists. The protests don’t seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart’s headquarters. The second explodes

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This is an imperfect-but-creditable movie. Dr. Alan Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) is an overworked and stressed dentist who feels pressure from the IRS about the financial records at his clinic. After catching his wife (Linda Hoffman) in an affair with the swimming pool repairman, he decides to get revenge on both of them. When he starts having hallucinations that prevent him from distinguishing

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. It’s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When the police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women – one per

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil.This is the second book in the series.

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption 36 years before. Cole’s assignment is to find out their medical history and report back. It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds out

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Elvis Cole receives the phone call he’s been waiting for since childhood. Responding to a gunshot, the LAPD has found an injured man in an alleyway. He has told the officer on the scene that he is looking for his son. Minutes later, the man is dead. Haunted throughout his life by a lack of knowledge about his father, Elvis turns to the one person

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Three years ago Carol Starkey was one of L.A.’s best bomb squad technicians. Then a freak accident while disarming a bomb left her scarred inside and out. Now a detective with the LAPD’s Criminal Conspiracy Section, she is struggling to rebuild her shattered world. When an explosion claims the life of a technician who was a colleague and friend,

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This is an okay movie. An ongoing race war in Oakland, California pits blacks against Asians. When Han Sing (Jet Li) learns of his brother’s murder, he breaks out of a Hong Kong prison and flies to the United States to find the perpetrators. Trish (Aaliyah) flees from her father's bodyguard and gets into a taxi cab which was stolen by Han. At his brother's apartment, Han learns that the last

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This is a solid movie. Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) and a crew of explorers discover Alexander the Great’s lost Luna Temple underneath the Aegean Sea. Inside she finds a golden orb, but it is stolen before she can take possession of it. According to legend, it contains a map showing the location of Pandora’s Box. A dangerous scientist, who creates biological weapons of terror, wants to sell the

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This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. When ex-con Max Holman finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn’t taste too sweet. The only thing on his mind is reconciliation with his estranged son, who is, ironically, a cop. But then he hears the devastating news: his son and three other Los Angeles police officers were gunned down in cold blood the night before Holman’s release. When the hit

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This is a moderate movie. Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is a psychotic and secluded mathematician who sees numerical patterns throughout nature. He is determined to develop a model that is able to accurately predict outcomes in the stock market. His work attracts the attention of a Kaballah sect hoping to unlock a code in their ancient texts that will usher in a new spiritual era. And a Wall

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