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Movie Review: Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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Synopsis: Five years after Thanos erased half the universe's population before destroying the Infinity Stones, the surviving Avengers are beginning to accept what happened and move on with their lives. However, when Scott Lang/Ant-Man returns after being trapped in the Quantum Realm, he comes back with a plan, travel back in time to retrieve the stones so they can undo what Thanos did. There's just one problem; an earlier version of Thanos has figured out the plan. Who's in it? The movie stars Robert Downey, Jr. , Paul Rudd , Scarlett Johansson , Mark Ruffalo , Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth . Review: My wife and I binge watched the various Avenger movies a few years ago but stopped one short and never took the time to watch Avengers: Endgame , mostly because we couldn't find time to slip a 3-hour-long film into our schedule. We finally decided to do that yesterday evening and weren't disappointed. With very few exceptions, movies that are longer than 2 hours ra...

Movie Review: Knives Out (2019)

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Synopsis:  When renown mystery writer Harlan Thrombey is found dead following his 85th birthday party, it is initially ruled a suicide. However, the investigation is re-opened when a well-known private investigator, Benoit Blanc, is anonymously hired to consult on the case. Blanc immediately uncovers multiple suspects withing Thrombey's eccentric family. However, things take an even more dramatic turn when the mystery writer's nurse, Marta Cabrera, is named Thrombey's sole heir. Who's in it? The movie stars Ana de Armas , Daniel Craig , Chris Evans , Jamie Lee Curtis , Don Johnson and Christopher Plummer . Review:  I received this movie on DVD from Netflix yesterday and, since there wasn't anything good on TV, decided to watch it with my wife yesterday evening. Normally, my wife and I usually wind up sharing the same view of the movies we watch, we either both like them or we both hate them. However, this happened to be one of those rare films where we disagreed. ...