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Movie Review: The Gruffalo (2009)

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Synopsis: In an effort to calm her scared children, a mother squirrel decides to tell the story of a little mouse who travels through the woods in search of something to eat. When the mouse encounters three different predators, a fox, an owl and a snake, he avoids being eaten by scaring them with his description of the fictional Gruffalo. There's just one problem, the Gruffalo is real, and his favorite food is mouse. Who's in it?  The animated movie uses voices from Helena Bonham Carter , John Hurt , James Corden , Robbie Coltrane and Tom Wilkinson . You can read my review here:  Movie Review: The Gruffalo (2009)

Movie Review: The Full Monty (1997)

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Synopsis: After being unemployed for months with little hope of finding decent employment, a group of former steel workers decide to perform as male strippers despite not having the bodies associated with that type of performance. Their rehearsals go well but as word gets out about their plan, they begin having second thoughts. Who's in it? The movie stars Robert Carlyle , Tom Wilkinson , Mark Addy , Wim Snape and Paul Barber . Review: After finally watching the television special The Real Full Monty  with my wife a couple days ago, I decided it was about time for us to re-watch the movie that inspired it . As luck would have it, I already had it saved to my library, so we saw it again tonight. It is as good as I remembered it. I'll start out by saying the premise and execution of this movie are outstanding. Watching the group of men come up with a seemingly farfetched idea and making it come to fruition was both entertaining and sometimes funny. There were also quite a few...