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Blast from the Past (1999)

I really enjoyed the movie “Blast from the Past.” Brendan Fraser plays Adam, a young man whose parents are a little on the odd side. The year is 1962 and they’ve been watching the news reports on the Cuban Missile Crisis on television. They’ve got a bomb shelter all ready to go, and when an airplane crashes in their yard, they think they’re being bombed and head for cover. They close an airlock on the shelter, believing that they have been irradiated, and they plan to stay underground until all the nuclear rays have dissipated. Adam’s mother (Sissy Spacek) was … Continue reading →

Dudley Do-right (1999)

Have you ever been struck so speechless that you just had to sit there with a really vacant look on your face until you figured out what was going on? I had that experience just the other night, watching “Dudley Do-right” with my husband. We watched “George of the Jungle” together a few weeks ago and laughed our heads off. Although “Dudley” was made in the same format, with the wry announcer, silly slapstick, and the same star, it was nowhere near George’s caliber. We all recall the old Dudley cartoon from the days of “Rocky and Bullwinkle.” Dudley is … Continue reading →

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

Apologies for being a little late with this review, but we’ve been battling a rotavirus all week. That said; let’s talk about the basic, cheesy good fun that is Journey to the Center of the Earth. This film is hardly the first version of Jules Verne’s novel to be delivered to the big or the small screen. The classic science fiction novel transported readers to a land of the lost (yes, pun intended) deep within the Earth where man-eating plants, dinosaurs and other dangers await intrepid travelers. The film is also available in 3-D and if you have that option … Continue reading →

The Derby Stallion (2005)

Tonja Walker, who I first saw as Alex Olanov on “One Life to Live,” produced this PG-rated family-oriented film and also starred as the mother. Patrick McCardle (Zac Ephron) has been playing baseball at his father’s behest, but hates it. He’s taken to skipping practice to go hang out with Houston Jones (Bill Cobbs) a former jockey and horse trainer, to talk about the animals and the sport of steeple chasing. When Patrick’s father (William R. Moses) asks him why he doesn’t come to practice, they have a bitter argument in which the father expresses his deep disappointment in the … Continue reading →