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Young Victoria
Beautifully made, well acted, a great love story. It's about Queen Victoria of England and her journey to the crown and the love story between her and Prince Albert. Loved it!
Stars Emily Blunt (who I'm liking more and more as an actress even though she is marrying my boyfriend Jim from The Office) and Rupert Friend (who is just hot!)

American Teen
A documentary of teenage life in middle America. The best part is that one of the teen's dad is a Elvis impersonator. The worst part was one of girl's parent tells her that she is isn't special. The girl's mom does have bipolar but still very sad.

An Education
Loved the time era of which it was set, the 1960's. Great acting. But what creeped me out was that she was 16 and he was somewhat a bit older. I guess at that time, things like that were o.k., the norm. But it just showed how he as really a manipulative guy.
Stars Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard

Auto Focus
A biopic about Bob Crane of Hogan's Hero's. Lived a sad life and was murdered but no one was ever convicted of his death. The movie was a bit slow at times and didn't hold my attention. Stars Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe

August Rush -
LOVED IT!!! That is all I can say. Great story, actors and a happy ending.
Stars Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (hot . . . I have a thing for English actors
and have you seen him in The Tudors . . . RAD!!!), and adorable Freddie Highmore.
Plus a great role by Robin Williams.

Mammoth
Sad movie, depressing. Love Gael Garcia Bernal in anything he does. It does have a great soundtrack featuring Lady Tron and Radiohead.
Also stars Michelle Williams

Easy Virtue
Great time era, Roaring 20's/30's. The soundtrack is great. Some modern songs but in the Jazz/Swing style, like a cover of Sexbomb and Car Wash. Random but very cool. Movie was o.k. The old standard
or mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict.
Stars Mr. Darcy . . . oops! I mean Colin Firth and Jessica Beale

Old Joy
Two friends go camping for the night. They have not seen each other for a bit. One guy is married with a kid on the way, the other still a very free spirit "hippie". I end feeling sorry for him. I keep thinking that the "hippie" was going to kill his friend out in the woods but didn't. It was just weird. Not sure what the point was.

It May Get Loud
Three of the best or at least innovative guitarists come together and collaborate and learn from each other. Jimmy Page from Led Zepplin, Edge from U2, and Jack White of the White Stripes. I really want to learn how to play the guitar after watching this.

Moon
It's about this guy who lives on the Moon and is ready to go home after 3 years but it doesn't work out that way. Reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Instead of Hal 9000, you have Kevin Spacey as GERTY the Robot. I thought it was good thriller. Stars Sam Rockwell

Black Hawk Down
This movie was really hard for me to watch. Not a fan of war movies and unfortunately this movie is based on true events. But the actors that they got to play in this film are all hot. I loved the fact that most of them were English and Australian actors playing American Soldiers. Stars Eric Bana, Tom Hardy, Ewan McGregor and so many more.

I have a Netflix account and right now I have the subscription where I get three movies at a time. Also this is a set up for my new category to this blog: movies. I love movies. I love watching movies. I watch a lot of movies. Yes, my queue is alphabetized to a point but at the same time random. Sometimes the movies end up with the some similarities to each other; it could be a story line to the same actors. So to start, I just finished the "L's" recently and here is the first review in "It Comes In Three's . . . Movie Reviews". And there is a rating system. 0 through 3 yawns. 0 is that is was a great movie and I didn't fall asleep to 3 yawns is where I fall asleep through the movie more than one time. I think that says a lot.

Lucky Number Slevin
I give this one yawn. I thought the beginning of it was slow and just too confusing. But when I really payed attention to it, I thought it was a great who done it. It's about . . . not sure how to put it . . . getting even?! What you leave behind may come back to you in a bad way. It stars Bruce Willis and Josh Hartnett also with a cast of other great actors.

The Lucky Ones
I give this 0 yawns. It was a really great movie. It's about 3 soldiers home from the war in Iraq. One has retired after 2 years away from home and is so excited to get back to his family and life. The other two are on 30 day leave recovering from injuries, etc. They come together because their connection flights were all delayed and they all decide to get a rental and drive to the retired guy's home in St. Louis and of course along the way things don't go has planned . . . It shows how soldiers are treated when they come home. Mostly people treated them well, but it shows the other side too, unfortunately. Stars Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Micheal Pena.

Lucky You
I give it 0 yawns but it was a o.k. movie. It's about this guy who gambles for a living. So he has to learn some hard lessons and hit the bottom before he realizes that he does have a problem. At times it went into Poker lingo a bit too much, so If you like to play Poker this movie is for you. I always felt that Drew Barrymore is a good actress but it she was weirdly off in this film. Stars Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall.

Two of the movies The Lucky Ones and Lucky You had a similarity. Each had a character(s) with the last name of Cheaver although one was spelled Cheever but still similar.